A Canadian First - In Waterloo

June 2, 2005 - The Registry
By: Mary Kim Cichocki-Beaudry, RPP, MCIP

In the first meeting of its kind in Canada, TCI met with cities and large employers on behalf of the Region of Waterloo, Ontario, June1, 2005.

Leading Canadian telework and virtual workplace expert, Linda M. Russell, Managing Partner of TCI, was retained by the Region to head up and facilitate this unprecedented gathering. < read more >

May, 2005

Toronto Star May, 2005
Working at home: Mistrust still rules
Cultural barrier holds firms back

DAVID BRUSER
BUSINESS REPORTER Toronto Star

As wired and technologically savvy as workers are these days, companies should easily be able to withstand a major workforce interruption. "The idea that somebody may not show up for work is enough to literally put fear into their hearts in a very significant way," said Linda Russell, managing partner of Telecommuting Consultants International, a Toronto-based company that helps companies make virtual workplaces. <read more>

Telework - Canada's Answer to Lower Health Care Costs

(ACT) ASSOCIATION OF COMMUTER TRANSPORTATION USA - Telework Council - LINDA M. RUSSELL Partner - TCI

Ten percent of Canada's GDP is spent on healthcare (less than the 14 percent in the USA), so Health Canada is naturally quite interested in what is making us sick.For the last few years, they have funded research on the effects of work on our health, probably because working people tend to pay taxes more consistently than those not working. our health tax dollars as a source of venture capital to prop up a system dedicated to overwork. This, in turn,is creating imbalances and longer term diseconomies in our healthcare funding. <read more>

Summer 2005 - TCI and Alliance Partners Presenting Papers at
Inaugural San Diego International Systems Conference (SISC) Virtual Organization and Telework Track  San Diego State University July 8, 2005 and July 10, 2005, San Diego State University, San Diego , California

The Hague , ICT, the Knowledge Society and Changes in Work - 1st Bi-annual European Conference - The Netherlands, 9 & 10 June 2005 - Social and Cultural Planning Office, The Hague Conference website: http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOP_64PB8P

TCI & strategic alliance partner e-Planning have had papers accepted for presentation at:
URBISTICS MONTREAL 2005 urbistics@congresbcu.com in Montreal, Summer 2005.

ACT USA, California, 2005

San Diego, Summer 2005

International Telework Academy - UK Summer 2005