Thinking beyond myself...

To my shock and amazement "the company" has Telecommuting policies in place, who knew?

As stated so beautifully....

Program Description
Telecommuting is a voluntary agreement between an employee and local management whereby the employee performs a portion of normally scheduled work from an agreed upon alernate work site. The employee may work one to four days from the alternate work site in accordance with an agreed upon work schedule.

Program Benefits
Telecommuting allows the Company to increase employee satisfaction while improving productivity, quality, and timeliness of work. Office space savings, increased employee retention, commitment and morale, decreased turnover, improved recruiting and lower stress levels are benefits that may result from telecommuting.

Eligibility
All U.S. salaried employees of "the company"and its subsidiaries are eligible to apply to their local management for a telecummuting arrangement. Although there is a minimum period of service required to be eligible to telecommute, the program is not recommended for new hires. It is important that new hires have time to acclimate to the "the company" environment, as well as management have an opportunity to evaluate the new hire's work style and performance. Such agranagements should be made on a case by case basis by local management.

Telecommuting is not an employee entitlement. Management has the right to approve, modify, deny or terminate a telecommuting arangement at any time with or without cause.

Cost
Local management is responsible for costs associated with the telecommuting arrangement. To ensure a quality program, local mangement must provide a laptop, phone line installation and service, and off-site access to the company network. Additional equipment requests are local management's discretion, However, in most cases, additional equipment should not be required.

Compensation
A telecommuting arragement has no impact on an employee's compensation or benefits.

Approval Process
Review the corporate Telecommuting Expanded Policy, and discuss the appropriateness of such an arrangement with your immediate supervisor/manager. Complete the Telecommuting Agreement, located in the Expanded Policy, and obtain sugnatures form your immediate supervisor/manager, local Human Resourses and Systems support.

The employee should work with his/her local Systems support group to obtain the necessary computer hardware and training information. Necessary computer hardware procurement, setup, and training may take up to four weeks, after which the employee will be able to begin telecommuting.