City of Ottawa promotes Telework
Posted on Sat, Aug 28, 2010
Author: Rob Adams
Consultant for
Telecollaboration
This past week the City of Ottawa announced a telework initiative to reduce the number of trips that it's field staff makes to and from their offices. Ottawa councilor Maria McRae highlighted examples where staff made between 15-20 cross town trips to return to their desks for common activities like updating records, and checking email. One City of Ottawa employee explained that he travels 60 minutes to work each day by car, while there is a City of Ottawa building 8 minutes walk from his home. Telecollaboration could solve both of the city's dilemmas.
The City of Ottawa is demonstrating leadership in considering the benefits of teleworking on it's staff, budgets, and the environment. As a large organization with offices spread out across the geography of the Nation's Capital there are many opportunities for collaboration between staff at multiple locations. A solution like Scalar's Telecollaboration could allow staff to work from multiple office locations and still collaborate with team mates in their primary office.
If you'd like to learn more about Scalar's Telecollaboration solutions we'd love to discuss them with you.