VA Bill Sends State Employees Home

03:11PM Sunday Jan 20 2008 by KathrynV
tags: business · alternatives · Politics

The Virginia State Assembly is currently considering the passage of a series of bills designed to encourage telecommuting by state employees. With increased access to high speed Internet, more and more people are telecommuting to work at least some of the time. The state of Virginia has recognized that this decreases traffic congestion and provides other benefits to the state (plus it’s good for employees).
“Lawmakers have also suggested that a state office be created to promote telework and improve broadband coverage, and any agency that successfully sets up a plan to be allowed to keep the saved money for projects.”
If passed, the new bills would require that state agencies have twenty percent of their employees teleworking by 2010.