National Telework Organizations

Government/Non-profit

• ITAC – The Telework Advisory Group for World at Work
  Founded in 1993, ITAC is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing the growth and success of work independent of location. ITAC includes Fortune 500 firms and federal government agencies as its members. On January 1, 2005, WorldatWork acquired all of the assets of ITAC and ITAC is now identified as ITAC, the Telework Advisory Group for WorldatWork. Both WorldatWork and ITAC are 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organizations.

• Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Interagency Telework
  The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the General Services Administration (GSA) have established this joint web site on Telework to provide access to guidance issued by both agencies. Here you will find information for employees who think they might like to telecommute (or are already doing so), for managers and supervisors who supervise teleworkers, and for agency telework coordinators.

• The Telework Coalition
  The Telework Coalition brings together a diverse array of organizations, companies, and individuals with the common interest of promoting awareness and adoption of existing and emerging Telework and Telecommuting applications including telemedicine and distance learning, as well as addressing access to broadband services that may be needed to support these applications.

• Telework Consortium
  The Telework Consortium Inc. assists public agencies and private companies to plan and implement robust telework and distributed work programs. The organization discovers, evaluates and demonstrates the field-ready hardware and software, management processes, infrastructure configurations, measurement techniques and best practices that are likely to speed the early adoption of cost-effective, easy-to-use designs and technologies for working and collaborating from remote locations.

• GSA – Telework
  Teleworking is a practical solution to environmental and other quality of life issues, as well as work life challenges. The Office of Personnel Management and GSA are lead agencies for the federal teleworking initiative. The GSA Governmentwide Telework Team serves as the nexus for policy development, outreach, and collaborative partnerships to further the advancement of telework throughout the federal government.

Commercial

• Telework Recruiting, Inc.
  A web-based resource for finding professional telecommuting jobs.

• Telework Exchange
  The Telework Exchange^SM is a public-private partnership focused on eliminating telework gridlock. The Telework Exchange focuses on demonstrating the tangible value of Federal telework initiatives, serving the emerging education and communications requirements of the Federal teleworker community, and measuring Federal agencies’ progress on telework requirements.

• Teletrips
  Teletrips helps create, implement and manage public-private partnership programs to reduce commuter congestion, improve air quality, and reduce energy consumption. Teletrips joins with municipalities, states, provinces, the federal and international governments to design and implement incentives to encourage a sustainable approach to commuter transportation. These incentives may be achieved through public funding or through pure market-based approaches such as emissions trading.