Telework Consulting

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Telework Consulting

Teleworking is also known as Telecommuting, Remote Working, Virtual Offices, etc.

Teleworking is working at Home, a Satellite Office and Telecentre Center near home one or more days a week, instead of commuting to the main office or place of business. While employees may be linked to the office by any of several information transfer devices such as a telephone, modem, or fax machine, its possible to telecommute with just a pen, paper and telephone. The purpose of telecommuting is to reduce or eliminate the daily commute for employees in a way that will positively benefit the employee, employer, and community.

Telecommuting is a viable commuting alternative if you're involved in the information business, whether you create it, research it, format it, or move it.

We consult in Telework service offerings that covers full-cycle till post-implementation:

· Teleworking Awareness

· Organization and Work types Assessment

Components of Telecommuting:

· Organization

· People

· Infrastructure / Information Technology

· Work Types/ Tasks / Activities

· Location

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Advantages and Benefits of Telecommuting / Teleworking

Benefits: Organizations

· Quality of work improves: employees working within preferred environment tend to be more productive

· Office space overhead and costs are reduced: since employees would be at other places office space can be reduced for hot desks

· Absenteeism and Sick Leave will be lower: employees can work whenever they feel they have the strength to when not feel that well to travel

· Recruiting and Training costs reduction: due to employees retention underpinned by remote working privileges, there will be neither less change of employment nor training of new recruits.

· Schedule Fluctuations: employee management will work on deliverable rather than times spend in the office. Employees will work when viable to still meet the target.

· Increases flexibility during peak workloads: employees can work harder to reach deadlines within comfort of their homes. Management is released from all concern from personal emergencies of employees.

· Disaster preparedness: in case of disaster, all decentralized physical tools might be saved

· Late coming: employees will be late perpetually because of daily transportation struggle

· Reduction of disability costs – employers will be reduce costs of employees who might disabled under their employment contract or recruited as disabled

Benefits: Employee

· Lower stress experiences: by working at location of convenience, employees avoid a stressful commute, as well as the noise and interruptions common in most office cubicles.

· Increased flexibility: employees will have more control over their time and work when is viable than scheduled working

· Save commuting time: employees will have an opportunity experience minimal commuting

· Saving of money: employees will be able to save by minimizing expenses such as traveling costs, laundry, etc.

· Geographically remote areas: employees living in the outskirts of town or relocating to any town can still work from such location

· Reduce usage of personal leave days: employees working from home or any place that is convenient would not likely require more leave days

· Risks of commuting: employees benefit from less exposure to risks of traveling especially during rush hours to and from work

· Lifestyle balance: employees will have an opportunity to juggle their time to maintain balance between work and family time

· Disabled: employees who are disabled have no struggle in doing in comparison with commuting daily to offices

· Security: employees will experience less vulnerability of break-in of their homes if they work there

Benefits: Community / Society

· Less Air Pollution: due to reduced number of cars traveling, air pollution will be reduced. This will contribute towards organizations reputation on environmental awareness

· Traffic congestion: reduction of traffic congestion which contributes to stress level, road rage, accidents, etc and demand for transportation & bus-services

· Road Maintenance: reduction of the need to regularly repair wear & tear on roadways

· Disabled: provides better job opportunities & ease of 'getting to work' for the disabled and mobility restricted

· Home security: more "eyes on the street" during the day reduces break-ins and other crimes

· Local businesses: provides a financial boost for business sector in the suburbs and rural areas

· Recruitment & retention capabilities aid economic development, global competitiveness and the 'brain drain'

· Good for emergency preparedness: allows work to continue during strikes, snow and ice storms, floods, brownouts, etc

· Offshore BPO possibilities: with an awareness by international community that SA is telecommuting, an opportunity to offshore work (employ) to people who are experience to work remotely will be much higher

Facts

· Information workforce (people who can work from anywhere) spent substantial amount of time commuting which equates to many day per annum in total

· The number of cars in our road is increasing on daily basis; it becomes harder on-going basis to go to work in some parts of cities like Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria

· Idling cars in traffic jam contributes negatively to our environment—the air we breath, climate change issues, high usage of natural resources (petrol & oil), etc

· Some Information workforce people are exposed to commuting dangers and surrounding issues such as being mugged on daily basis whilst they could alternate and reduce such potential threats by half!

· The list goes on and on