Teleworking from your home or from a convenient Telework Center may be the right option for you and your employer.

Alternative work schedules such as flextime, compressed workweeks, and job sharing are other progressive options for reducing traffic congestion, lessening workplace stress, and increasing efficiency.

For more information, contact us at 240-773-BWTW (2989) or email us at mcdot.CommuterServices@montgomerycountymd.gov

Telecommuting Programs

Employees work out of their homes or in a satellite office or “telecenter” one or more days a week – using computer, phone, fax, and/or teleconferencing

Benefits

May reduce office space and parking needs – improving business bottom line

• Helps businesses maintain continuity of operations during emergencies, such as weather-related events
• Helps employers recruit and retain the best employees
• Boosts job satisfaction, reduces stress, increases productivity, helps work/life balance
• Decreases traffic congestion, energy consumption, and air pollution
• Enhances employer reputation as “good corporate citizen”

Types of Jobs

For more information, visit the Telework resources pages at Commuter Connections. You may also call 202-962-3286 for the Telework Resource Center, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. Ask for a free Teleworking Starter Kit.

Maryland Telework Partnership with Employers

The Maryland Telework Partnership with Employers (TPE) offers free professional telework consulting services. Interested employers in Montgomery County who wish to start or expand telework programs should contact CSS at 240-773-BWTW (2989).

Sites are selected on the basis of location, nature of business, and expressed level of commitment. Each selected TPE site will designate a telework coordinator and an internal telework team to work with the consulting on developing and implementing the program. Teleworkers are expected to telecommute at least two days a month during a one-year period. Sponsoring agency is the Maryland Department of Transportation.

Telework Resource Center

The Telework Resource Center (TRC) is a Commuter Connections program, coordinated through the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG), which offers free one-day seminars throughout the region.

TRC can show employers how to:

• Establish a telework policy
• Form an in-house advisory group
• Identify a telework program coordinator
• Select, manage, and evaluate telework employees
• Set up ground rules for work space, security issues, and regularly scheduled work hours
• Provide for telework equipment
• Understand tax implications and compensation issues

Telework Centers

Telework Centers offer optional workspace located closer to the employees’ homes. Equipment includes computers, modems, photocopiers, fax machines, voice mail, and Internet access; meeting rooms and videoconferencing. There are 17 facilities in the greater Washington region.

Telework Centers in Maryland include:

Bowie State University Telecommuting Center
Bowie State University
Thurgood Marshall Library
14000 Jericho Park Road
Bowie, MD20715
(301) 860-4939
(301) 352-4513 (fax)
www.bowiestate.edu/about/cabinet/admin_finance/telecommuting/teleworking/ E-mail: bsutelework@aol.com 

Calvert TeleWork Center
110 S. Solomon's Island Road
Prince Frederick, MD 20678
(410) 286-2807
(410) 414-2637 (fax)

 

Frederick Telework Center
7340 Executive Way, Suite M
Frederick, MD 21704
Tonita Hickey
(301) 698-2700 ext.1
(301) 696-2848 (fax)
E-mail: hickeyt@ibacorp.us

 

Hagerstown Telework Center
14 North Potomac Street, Suite 200
Hagerstown, MD 21742
Michael Pellegrino
(301) 745-5601
(301) 745-5700 (fax)
www.hagerstowntelework.org
E-mail: telework@hagerstowntelework.org

 

 

Southern Maryland Telework Centers (3 locations)
(301) 934-7628
(301) 934-7675 (fax)

 

Prince Frederick Telework Center
Fox Run Professional Building
205 Steeple Chase Drive, #305
Prince Frederick, MD 20676
Jill Wathen
301-870-3008 EXT. 7628 or
301-934-7628 (Office)
(301)934-7675(fax)
www.teleworkctr.org
Email: Jillw@csmd.edu

 

Laurel Lakes Telework Center
13962 Baltimore Boulevard
Laurel, MD 20707
(800)695-610
(301)934-7675 (fax)
www.teleworkctr.org
Jim Wathen
Email: Jillw@csmd.edu

 

Waldorf Telework Center (Charles County)
128 Smallwood Village Shopping Center
Waldorf, MD 20602
(800)695-6105
www.teleworkctr.org
Email: Jillw@csmd.edu

For more information about the locations of telework centers in the Washington, DC region, please visit the Commuter Connections Telework Centers Web page. Or call 240-773-BWTW (2989).

Alternative Work Schedules

Flextime, Compressed Work Schedules, and Job Sharing are progressive options to reducing traffic congestion at peak travel hours, lessening stress in the workplace, and fostering efficient use of time at the office. CSS can help you determine which job types are best suited to these schedules as well as recommend program policies and procedures.

CSS will work with employers to set up Flextime programs featuring adjusted arrival and departure times for employees. Compressed Work Schedules, such as 4-day/10-hour-a-day work weeks, eliminate commuting for at least one day a week for those who participate. Job Sharing also cuts down on commuting.

Other advantages:

• Flextime employees can work during their most productive hours
• Employees may use less leave time because they have greater flexibility in planning medical and other appointments.
• Companies gain increased coverage, especially when they communicate across time zones and have customers requiring extended hours
• Flextime can help reduce spot congestion at work site entrances.

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