ITworld had a post recently near and dear to my heart. Why telecommunting is good for your company gives a company some considerations to be thinking about if they are looking at giving telecommuting privileges to their staff. (There words not mine)
If it was up to me, I would say, reasons you should give your company the advantages of promoting telecommuting to your employees. Companies need to come to realize and realize quickly the huge advantages of telecommuting or teleworking. Here is the list:
Just one more list of reasons companies should be seriously looking at telecommuting as an option.
Add to that list
reduce staff turnover
increases a companies green credentials
increases the size of the available work force (anywhere there is a net connection)
Nice summary
One thing that helps with telecommuting for a small business to large enterprise is Citrix. They provide centralized applications and file sharing with minimal impact on the end point. PLUS the user is not dependent on the applications they have installed locally, and they can have access to all of the work apps from ANY computer. For Mac users, they do not have to add a Virtual Machine or Bootcamp to run windows-based apps, they just log into XenApp and they are working. No set up and not hassle of depleted local resources.
Grant,
One thing that occurred to me over the weekend is that working at home is a natural extension of most people’s lifelong learning process. As kids, we do our homework, in our room, at home. In college, we do our studying, writing and thinking in our dorm rooms or apartments — again, where we live. I didn’t have an office in elementary or high school; nor did I have one in college or law school. So it seems to me that the very notion of working at home, in many ways, is not only consistent with what we’ve always done, but may actually produce superior results, at least if you subscribe to the theory of “context dependent” learning. In other words, if your academic foundation rests on the ability to learn and apply knowledge in a home setting, it stands to reason that your best work would also be produced there.
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Tom- WOW, someone finally stating what I have been thinking now for sometime. How right you are. We are born into “homeworking” and yet, we continue to fight the notion that it truly works. Thanks for your great comment.