The Midwest Institute for Telecommuting Education (MITE) is a strong champion that assists Minnesota companies in implementing telework.  MITE provides "nuts and bolts" consulting and training in the areas of start-up strategies, legal and liability issues, policy development, remote office set-up, supervisory strategies, and teleworker/telemanager training.

From time to time we will publish case studies of Telework examples. All our case studies will be available on this Web site. To visit a case study, choose a company from the list below and click on the red square. Once in the case study, you can move to the next case, visit the previous case, and return to this page using the right arrow icon, the left arrow icon, and the up arrow icon, respectively.  These icons will be available at the top and bottom of each case.

Happy reading! You will find that Telework works!

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Company Name Case Summary Abbott Northwestern Hospital Abbott Northwestern Hospital began its telecommuting pilot in 1994 with 3 full-time telecommuters, and expect to employ over 20 full-time telecommuters by the year 2000.  Abbott has found that telecommuting is not only a way to cut costs, it is also an extremely effective recruitment tool.  Abbott Northwestern Hospital can be found at: http://www.abbottnorthwestern.com/ Sopheon One of the many Twin Cities companies that has participated in the MITE implementation seminars before starting a telecommuting pilot, is Sopheon, which has generously agreed to share their experience in this article. Sopheon can be found on the WWW at: http://www.sopheon.com/

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