Puget Sound telecommuting demonstration

Technical Report · Wed Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:10143902

Quaid, M; Heifetz, L; Farley, M; Christensen, D ^[1]; Ulberg, C; Gordon, A; Spain, D; Whitaker, B ^[2]

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1. Washington State Energy Office, Olympia, WA (United States)
2. Washington State Transportation Research Center, Seattle, WA (United States)

This report discusses the Puget Sound Telecommuting demonstration project. This is a part-time work and transportation alternative that substitutes the normal work commute with the choice of working at home or at an office close to home. According to Link Resources, a research and consulting firm located in New York, there were 4.6 million part-time home telecommuters in the United States in 1991. This figure, which included only company employees who work at home during normal business hours, is up from 3.4 million in 1990, an increase of 35 percent in one year. Part-time telecommuters average 2.5 days per week at home. (There are also about 876,000 full-time telecommuters in the US.) The study done by Link Resources estimates that 4.5 percent of the civilian work force age 18 or older is telecommuting. The Washington State Energy Office (WSEO) began exploring telecommuting as an alternate route to work for Washington, first through The Governor`s Conference on Telecommuting in June 1989. The conference raised corporate and government awareness of telecommuting, and set the stage for further investigation. In 1990, WSEO launched the Puget Sound Telecommuting Demonstration to explore the environmental, organizational, and personal sides of telecommuting. This report presents the interim research results.

• Research Organization: Washington State Energy Office, Olympia, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Washington State Energy Office, Olympia, WA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 10143902
• Report Number(s): WSEO--92-058; ON: DE92013462
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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