Teleworking

Getting Started  

Staying in touch with your colleagues is vital throughout any significant change in the schedule — especially as a result of a crisis impacting all or part of campus. Early and frequent communication can ease employees' anxiety and save you from becoming overwhelmed with individual questions. 

The goal of this guide is to provide you the resources, strategies and assistance to help you work remotely.

Basic Requirements

Working remotely does have some technical hurdles you will need to consider. Please review the teleworking checklist below to gauge your readiness level.

• Internet access from home.
  • If you do not currently have high-speed internet, sometimes your phone's data plan can be shared with your computer. Call your cellphone provider for more details.
• Adequate bandwidth to access websites and services.
  • Generally, if you work at home, you will want a minimum internet speed of 1 Mbps for both download and upload.
• University-owned laptop or plan to use my own computer.
  • If you don't have a laptop or computer, a tablet might work for email and basic communications. However, you may have some challenges with the SUNY Portal, TAS, and editing/saving documents on a tablet.

Those are the basics. There are still some details to work out, such as how you save files, connect to shares and possibly take phone calls. Please read the definitions below, and check the Online Resources Section above for instructions. Please also reference the Data Classification policy; it is against SUNY Cortland policy to save important and sensitive files on your personal device.