On Work, Part 4 -- Sobre el Trabajo, Parte 4
Texto en Español sigue del texto en Inglés During my tenure as president of the Disability Action Group (DAG) , I received recurring comments or questions about workplace flexibilities. Different offices had different rules about telework according to the position, duties, etc., and was generally limited to one day a week. The comments and questions I received mostly had to do with how to expand those flexibilities – individuals with disabilities often ran through leave faster, whether for medical appointments, equipment repair, issues with transportation… the list went on. The impression I got (applicable both in and out of government) was that there could not possibly be a wider-spread implementation of telework: networks might crash, accountability might be more difficult, productivity would go down significantly. On some level maybe this made sense. Maybe millions of people going online remotely at the same time would crash systems or networks. Maybe it really “couldn’t” be...