Definitions

Today's businesses and government agencies have to balance their need to supply workers a place to work with the need to stay within their budgets. Traditionally, organizations have assigned one office, one desk, one chair and one telephone to each worker since they expected each worker would come to the office in order to work. With the advent of telework and mobile workers performing their duties more at home, at a client site or during travel, that means many of the assigned offices and desks are going unused some percentage of every day. That's where office hoteling comes in.

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The definition of telework is an arrangement whereby an employer allows employees to work or to perform official duties at home or in a location other than the standard office or workplace. Instead of commuting to the office to do work, the employee stays at home or goes to a nearby location and performs work from there.

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