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Exercise #5
Scheduling Work

The following exercise will help you decide what kinds of work can be done at the Telecenter.

Directions for completing this exercise:

1. Fill out "Last Week's Worksheet" by thinking of your last full week of work and identify what tasks and activities were conducted during each day of the week.
2. On the bottom of "Last Week's Worksheet" indicate what tools were used to complete those tasks.
3. On the "Telecommuting Worksheet", reconstruct the last week of work as if Tuesday and Friday were spent at the Telecenter. As you are reconstructing the last week of work, think of what may or may not be available at the Telecenter.
4. At the bottom of the "Telecommuting Worksheet", identify what tools would be used to complete those tasks at the traditional office and on Tuesday and Friday at the Telecenter.
5. Compare the two Worksheets.

Ideally you should be able to move tasks and activities around to accommodate for what might not be available at the Telecenter. For example, if you spent Tuesday afternoon reviewing a project with your peers or your manager, you would schedule that review for another day. It is very important to keep your technological needs in mind. If you do not have access to specific software or hardware at the Telecenter, you may keep that particular task for a day that you will be working at the traditional office. As you are filling out these worksheets, remember that some of your day-to-day interactions can also be substituted by e-mail, voice mail, fax, or a phone conversation.

The following instructions explain how to complete this exercise alone, with your telemanager, or with your telemanager in a training class.

If you are a telecommuter reviewing this as a self-guided manual

1. Make sure that you have reconstructed your activities based on the resources that are available at the Telecenter.
2. Prepare the worksheet for your telecommuting day.

If you and your telemanager are reviewing the self-guided manuals

1. Share your worksheets with your telemanager.
2. Make sure you and your telemanager agree on how your work week was reconstructed for working at the Telecenter.

If you are a telecommuter attending a training class

1. Share the results with your telemanager.
2. If your telemanager is not present, compare your results with another telecommuter.

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