Okay, maybe I'm a cheap date about anything that promotes remote work, but this video by WorkshiftCalgary brought tears to my eyes.

If you can't view the below video, go watch it over here.

Robyn Bews, the project manager for WorkshiftCalgary, and her team have put together a truly impressive program to help Calgary businesses "think outside the office." With funding from Transport Canada and the Government of Alberta, WorkshiftCalgary offers the tools, best practices, and resources that make it easy for companies to participate in their pilot.

"We're already working with over a dozen companies ranging in size from a couple of hundred employees to several thousand," says Bews. "It requires a real culture change to overcome the how-do-I-manage-them-if-I-can't-see-them mentality, but we're making headway."

In the U.S., only a handful of states have programs that aggressively encourage workshifting in the private sector. My own state, California--where traffic and smog continually plague its top cities--had one of the first telework initiatives in the country. Note the word "had," as we no longer do. What's with that? Meanwhile, thirty-seven states, are actively discouraging it with predatory tax and labor rules.

Let's take a lesson from our friends to the north, eh? It's time to make the road less traveled the way to work.

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