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Stories in this edition:

• Alternative Workplace Benchmark survey progress
• Work 2020
  
• Jobless recovery or change to part-time lifestyle?
  
• Trend map
  
• Higher rents, lower vacancy in green buildings
  
• Unions want telework policymaking role
  
• Members helping members
  

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

Stories in this edition:

• Work 2020 project status
  
• Jelly -- people coming to work together just for a day
  
• Study: Technology and social isolation
  
• Telepresence robots in the workplace
  
• Software identifies the emotional meaning of text
  
• UK workers spend nearly an hour a day commuting
  
• Looking for research partner organizations
  

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

Stories in this edition:

• Report: Improving workforce collaboration with tech tools
  
• Discounted registration for upcoming Telework Summit
  
• Community discussion: Change, Workplaces of the Future, and Office Design
  
• Does control over office workplace environment improve productivity?
  
• "Free range" working improves office workers' IQs?
  
• Swine flu fears could accelerate telework
  
• Test your personal telework preparedness
  

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

Stories in this edition:

• Study: Control over office environment increases productivit
  
• Augmented reality, continued
  
• UK: Office density increases
  
• H1N1 in the news
  
• Advice for managing virtual workers
  
• Workplace TV
  
• nteractive map of global warming
  
• More cool offices
  

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

Stories in this edition:

• Growing the network: Help us grow by sharing our new brochure
  
• Networking improvements on our website
  
• Avatars and people meet face-to-face
  
• A new kind of third place – the hacker dojo
  
• Telework around the world
  
• More telework case studies
  
• Microsoft’s UK office wins best workplace award

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

Stories in this edition:

• New member service: Monthly webinars
  
• Have you used our eco2Workplace tool?
  
• Survey identifies iWorker technology preference
  
• Study finds investing in collaborative tools more than doubles investment
  
• New study tests the 24/7 work ethic
  
• Finland guarantees broadband to all citizens
  
• Gensler talks about mobile workplace
  

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

Stories in this edition:

• Alternative Workplace Benchmark Survey launches today
  
• Work 2020 research advisory committee forms
  
• Patricia Roberts, CoreNet Las Vegas reporter
  
• New information on multitasking
  
• PWC study: How the downturn will change the future of work
  
• Telework case study: Noblis
  
• CES study finds more than 1/3 of US employees telework
  

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

Latest update to benchmarking fact file 

Our Fact File contains information scanned from public sources about company initiatives for new ways of working. It includes business drivers, solutions, results, source information, and links. Currently, we have data for about 75 organizations (some with more than one entry). This latest update covers the following organizations: Booz Allen Hamilton, Citigroup, Continental Airlines, Gap, Inc., Hewlett Packard, HSBC Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. You can find the file in our library at http://www.newwow.net/members/node/492 Please remember, this file is restricted to NewWOW members only.

Gap adopts ROWE strategy
Gap Outlet, a division of the American retail giant Gap Inc., has just completed a pilot of a Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) strategy. Under a ROWE strategy, employees can work whenever and wherever they want as long as they get the work done. ROWE was pioneered by Best Buy six years ago. Gap's pilot was initiated at company headquarters in San Francisco last year. Key reasons for the ROWE test were the company's desire to improve worklife balance and reduce turnover. Gap reports the following pilot results: 21% increase in productivity, 18% drop in employee turnover and a 19-point increase in engagement scores. Read the rest of our summary at: http://www.newwow.net/members/node/249#comment-916

Registration open for 2009 Alternative Workplace Benchmark Study
New Ways of Working, in cooperation with the CoreNet Global Workplace Community, will be conducting an Alternative Workplace Benchmark Study again this year. This study follows our 2008 study of thirty-two Fortune 500 organizations representing more than 1.5 million employees (see http://www.newwow.net/members/node/900 for results of that study). Participation in the benchmarking survey is free, thanks to financial contributions from Smart Technologies Inc. and Tekes as well as consulting support from Haworth. To sign up, go to: http://www.newwow.net/public/benchmark-survey-registration