Telecommute on a periodic basis

From: Borden Drousy
To: You
Re: The naked truth
I had to work from home last week and found I was very productive (even though I could only
get to the webmail application – what is this VPN thing I hear about?). I am thinking about
permitting several of our IT staff people (keep this between us for the time being) to
telecommute on a periodic basis. I am separately researching policy and HR implications of
telecommuting. What I’d like you to find out for me (and report via memo) is: what are our IT
infrastructure implications for VPN? (mind you I don’t want a complete redesign of our WAN
just the parts to support telecommuting to HQ).
Do we save infrastructure money if some of our staff periodically telecommute? Or, will this
cost us money? What if we have them telecommute all the time? Do we require any new or
different infrastructure than we currently have in place? Are there security issues? How do we
cost out infrastructure implications for a telecommuting project?
Can you get me a memo on this?