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Remote Work: Legal and Tax Implication for Employers

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While remote work has numerous benefits for both employees and employers—such as improving employee happiness, boosting workplace productivity, and reducing office costs—remote work also creates a web of new legal obligations for employers and new entitlements for employees.

Work from Home: Legal and Tax Implication of Remote Work for Employers is intended to help employers and their professional advisors understand what they need to know about common legal and tax issues that arise when employees work in a state or city that is different from their own.

This paper was co-authored by Kate Lister, president of Global Workplace Analytics and Isaac Mamaysky, Partner with Potomac Law Group PLLC. A version of this paper was peer-reviewed by and will appear in the ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law (forthcoming, 2022).

– Kate Lister’s U.S. Senate Testimony on Telework (July 29, 2020)

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Kate Lister, President of Global Workplace Analytics was one of three witnesses invited to testify at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works titled, “Lessons Learned from Remote Working during COVID-19: Can the Government Save Money Through Maximizing Efficient Use of Leased Space.” This is her written testimony. A link to the video is included in the document.

Overview – Federal Telework: Obstacles and Opportunities

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Despite over ten years of increasingly explicit legislation that encouraged, and now requires, telework, less than 7% of federal employees do so with any regularity. Global Workplace Analytics latest white paper, Federal Telework: Obstacles andOpportunities, offers insights from agency leaders on what’s holding telework back and what can be done to move it forward. As in the private sector, the biggest barrier is cultural. Managers need to learn how to manage by results, not presence. Beyond that, federal telework managers say they desperately need better training and better access to collaboration tools such as videoconferencing.

Federal Telework: Obstacles and Opportunities

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This report examines how  experts in government view the obstacles to telework. Based on their insights, those of industry experts, and our own observations, this paper suggests solutions for overcoming those obstacles.

Telecommuting Benefits: The Bottom Line

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The purpose of this paper is to quantify the benefits of telecommuting for employers, employees, and the community.

Three decades have passed since the concept of telecommuting— the substitution of technology for commuter travel—was conceived. A broad body of evidence now corroborates the many economic, environmental, and societal benefits that researchers predicted. Occasional telecommuting (one day a month) has grown significantly in recent years—increasing 74% from 2005 to 2008, though few companies have adopted it as a regular, multiple days per week, business practice.

The Bottom Line on Telework-California Government Workforce

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State and local government employees are bummed out, burned out, and stressed out from the endless struggle of trying to do more with less. To make matters worse, more than half the state’s most experienced people are moving toward the door to retirement. If California expects to attract a new generation of talented government leaders and staff workers it needs to find a new way of working, both figuratively and literally.

This report will show how telework can save government employers up to $11,000 per part-time telecommuter per year. This new workplace strategy offers a relatively easy, inexpensive, and popular solution to some of government’s most vexing problems such as:

  • attracting and retaining talent
  • reducing traffic congestion
  • improving air quality
  • reducing energy consumption
  • reducing employee stress
  • increasing morale

WORKshift Canada: The Bottom Line On Telework

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This report shows how part-time telecommuting by the 4.3 million Canadians with compatible jobs and a desire to work from home could have a bottom line impact of over $53 billion per year. An employer with 250 telecommuters, for example, would save over $3 million per year

Results-Based Management-The Key to Unlocking Talent, Increasing Productivity

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Recent research shows than 70% of the workforce is not engaged. They’re either wandering around in a fog, or actively undermining their co-workers’ success. They’re burned out, disenfranchised, and over 80% are ready to jump ship.

Eyeing the end of the recession, employees are no longer happy just to have a job. Boomers who haven’t already made their exit are anticipating it. Gen X-ers watched their workaholic parents, and aren’t about to make the same mistakes. Gen Y-ers grew up independent, tech savvy, and were taught to question authority. Now they’re questioning their employers. This is not your father’s workforce.

The Bottom Line on Telework for the Thurston Region State and Local Governments

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This report offers a data-driven analysis of the potential for telework to enhance the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of Thurston WA region state and local government.

Based on a conservative set of assumptions drawn from a synthesis of over 4,000 data sources, we calculate that the impact of twice weekly telework by 30% of the region’s public sector workforce could:

  • Save approximately $58 million per year
  • Reduce vehicle miles traveled by 14 million miles per year
  • Eliminate over one million vehicle trips per year
  • Reduce greenhouse gases by the equivalent of planting over 100,000 trees