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Stories in this edition:

• Our next webinar: NewWOW's Benchmarking Study - Results & Implications
  
• Symposium 9 news
  
• Inc. magazine goes virtual – for a month
  
• Study: Creating a high-performance workplace
  
• Fear keeps workers from choosing flex time
  
• New Jersey tax decision bodes ill for companies with teleworkers
  
• OPM begins ROWE pilot
  
• WorkSnug - Augmented reality on your phone
  
• Cartoon corner
  
• Events calendar
  

NetWORK News is made available to the members of the New Ways of Working and to interested non-members. If you are interested in membership and full access to all of New WOW resources and services, please contact Jim Creighton at jim.creighton@newwow.net

The future of the office furniture industry
We summarize an interview featured in this month's edition of Metropolis magazine. Editors at the magazine talked with design directors from five major contract-furniture companies about the state of the industry, the future of workplace design, and the role of research in a down economy. The companies: Allsteel
, Haworth, Herman Miller, Steelcase and Teknion.

When asked what was the next wave of ideas about how people work, and how their companies are adapting workplace designs, the designers offered a variety of solutions: European work styles and bench seating; looking at the enclosure needs of open environments; simplifying and dematerializing the workstation; and improving connections between people as well as with people and their devices. Worth the read. http://www.newwow.net/members/node/1565

Also in this edition:

• NewWOW on the move
  
• New in the library: Notes from Symposium 8
  
• NewWOW launches press campaign to publicize benchmarking study results
  
• Mobility market forecast
  
• OPM Director makes telework a COOP priority
  
• Telework bill out of committee
  

NetWORK News is made available to the members of the New Ways of Working and to interested non-members. If you are interested in membership and full access to all of New WOW resources and services, please contact Jim Creighton at jim.creighton@newwow.net

New in the library: Updated NewWOW Fact File
We have updated the New Ways of Working Fact File with new information. This file is a spreadsheet with facts from public information sources about company initiatives for new ways of working. You'll find information listed by industry, business drivers, solutions, and results of an organization's program. Source information and links are also included.

Our Fact File contains information about 90 organizations including Accenture, American Express, Bank of America, Best Buy, BDO Seidman, BP, Capital One, CIGNA, Continental Airlines, DuPont, Gap, Inc., Genzyme, Haworth, Hilton Hotels, HP, HSBC, Intel, JPMorgan Chase, McKesson, MetLife, Microsoft, Motorola, Nortel, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Procter & Gamble, Royal Bank of Scotland, Sun Microsystems, US Navy, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

There are 10 new entries since the last update: Barclays, Cable and Wireless, Citi, GlaxoSmithKline, Hennepin County, Interpolis, Macquarie Group, Noblis, Telus, and United Way. Download your copy: http://www.newwow.net/members/node/492

Other stories in this edition:

• Microsoft remote work survey results
  
• Research project will study business benefits of virtual worlds
  
• PEW generations study
  
• Study: Naps improve performance late in day
  
• Digital roundtable discusses the crowd
  
• US OPM calls for 50% increase in telework
  
• Announcements - Save these dates: June 27 to June 30 for Symposium 9
  

NetWORK News is made available to the members of the New Ways of Working and to interested non-members. If you are interested in membership and full access to all of New WOW resources and services, please contact Jim Creighton at jim.creighton@newwow.net

Distributed work study opportunity – focus on managers
A new study is being undertaken by researchers from Pennsylvania State University, New York University and the University of Illinois. They are looking for organizations to participate in the study which focuses on managers of distributed workers. I wrote to the chief researcher, Sumita Raghuram, to get more details. She wrote back with a description of the study and an invitation to participate. The proposed research will explore how managers' perception of the power implications of having subordinates telecommute influences their support for distributed work. The study, sponsored by the Society for Human Resource Management, will be international in scope. Since supervisory norms differ by country-culture, data will be collected from several countries. There is no cost to participate and all participating organizations will receive a copy of the final report. To download the study proposal, see http://www.newwow.net/members/node/1537

Other stories in this edition:

• Hot off the press: NewWOW 2009 Global Benchmarking Study
  
• NewWOW welcomes Johnson Controls
  
• Group presentations from Symposium 8
  
• Gen Y workers provide a peek at the future of work
  
• Case study: Citi's AWS deployment
  
• Recommended viewing
  

NetWORK News is made available to the members of the New Ways of Working and to interested non-members. If you are interested in membership and full access to all of New WOW resources and services, please contact Jim Creighton at jim.creighton@newwow.net