...Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 2 WHAT”S IT ALL ABOUT? 2 THE BASICS OF TELECOMMUTING 2 VARIETIES OF TELECOMMUTING 2 TYPES OF TELECOMMUTING 3 THE BENEFITS OF TELEWORK 3 BIGGEST CHALLENGES OF WORKING AT HOME 4 WHAT IN IT FOR EMPLOYEES 6 CONCLUSION 6 INTRODUCTION Telecommuting is a very interesting and complex subject. The pros and cons of this concept are numerous and both sides have excellent arguments. This report will help introduce you to the telecommuting basics; it will help you sort out the benefits and pitfalls so you can decide whether it will work for you; it will help develop and implement a program that meets your individual needs. WHAT”S IT ALL ABOUT? Telecommuting started in California in the 1970’s to reduce traffic and save the earth. It involves working from just about anywhere besides a company’s main office—including workers’ homes, clients’ facilities, and employer-owed satellites offices, and even from a hotel room while on the road. Companies implement these programs for many reasons besides keeping employers happy or saving money in office space. They see it as a way to stay in operation during natural disasters, epidemics, and other emergencies, while others may view it as a key recruiting tool or a way to keep employees closer to customers. THE BASICS OF TELECOMMUTING Telecommuting, as it is referred to in the United States, teleworking, as it is Referred to in Europe, home-working, working-at-a-distance, off-site...
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...TELECOMMUTING I. INTRODUCTION My name is Diana Snyder, I am a Graduate Student at the Keller University School of Management with emphasis in Human Resources Management. Because of the slow economy management want to institute telecommuting and my presentation will focus on the advantages and disadvantages of telecommuting All of us some time or another have had the desire to stay at home and work. I would like to know who would be interested in staying home and working in order to save. I know I would love that because at home has advantages like spending time with my family and being my own boss. Furthermore, this is advantageous for the employer as it can boost the company’s productivity. By the end of his presentation you will know all the reasons an employer should initiate the program or if an employee would want to take part in it. II. TELECOMMUTING Now let us discuss what telecommuting is. Telecommuting is an arrangement that is made between employers and employees to perform their job duties outside of the office. For example, an employee can choose to work from their homes or some other business center. III. REASON FOR TELECOMMUTING Employees who wish to telecommute do it mostly because of their career, or for personal or financial reasons. Example include parents who wish to spend more time at home with their children and people with financial problem who want to save on the high prices of gasoline. IV. FOCUS GROUPS PARENTS (Mothers) would not have to pay for child...
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...Telecommuting will be the new way jobs are performed in the next ten years. Saving of time spent by reducing commute and create personal schedule. (valid) I will show how saving time in the commute to and from the office, and being able to tailor your day to your own schedule, will create a better atmosphere to work and leave you with a feeling of not having a rushed day. I will include survey results which show the average commute time between homes and offices Saving of money spent by reducing gas, parking, and vehicle fees. (valid) I will show the savings involved in having no parking or vehicle fees and the need to not fill your gas tank up every day. I will include survey results which show the average distance between homes and offices. Also reducing the need for workspace and office space. (valid) I will show that having people work from home will reduce the amount of space businesses require for parking and office space, reducing the overhead they pay for rent, and increasing the amount of money they can then pay people. Less overhead equals more money for people. Improving job security (not valid) it is implied that working from home will improve quality of life and perhaps you will enjoy your job more. I will include my survey results which show the number of people who have worked from home vs the number who have not worked from home, and then show the maximum number of years those people spent at the job. It may show that those who work from home tend...
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...TELECOMMUTING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR HERITAGE FURNITURE COMPANY BASED ON A STUDY OF SIMILAR COMPANY EXPERIENCES Prepared for Mr. Jeff Green, President Heritage Furniture Company Street address State Prepared by Nicholas R. Jones Business, Education, Information Technology 336 Scott College of Business 200 North 7th Street Terre Haute, IN 47809-1902 June 30, 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS Item Page EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OVERVIEW Telecommuting is working from an outside location away from a institution’s facilities through electronic communication with a centralized network database. Telecommuting works best with the companies that are routine and have easy to understand, clear goals. The term “telecommuting” was coined by Jack Nilles. Jack was an aerospace engineer working for the U.S. Air Force and NASA. (Mears, 2007) With the increase in technological advancements, telecommuting has become easier for businesses to implement the telecommuting process. As a result more and more businesses have put telecommuting into practice. In the year 2008 part-time telecommuting jobs rose to 35 percent, an increase of 9 percent from 26 percent in 2006. Full-time telecommuting jobs had only a 2 percent increase from 19 percent to 21 percent during the 2006 to 2008 period. (Claude, 2010) Many companies have seen this as a way to improve sales productivity...
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...Running Head: EFFECTS OF TELECOMMUTING Social Effects of Telecommuting: How Society is Changing Abstract Telecommuting is a recent trend that allows individuals to perform their work from home, instead of making their presence at the office essential. The increase in telecommuting increases productivity, the opportunity to retain the needed skilled force, and the ability to be environmentally friendly. However, telecommuting does also negatively effect society since it threatens the collective nature of organized labor. Overall, the increase of telecommuting has impacted everyone’s life and not just the life of those who telecommute. Researchers have predicted that by 2020, 30% of the workforce will be only telecommuters. The workplace has been faced with a multitude of changes in the past couple of decades and most if not all of these changes are encouraged by the advancement in technology. These advancements have allowed individuals to be much more efficient. However, the influence of technology has invaded the offices all around the globe, which has affected the organization and the structure of the workplace. One of the best examples of how extensive use of technology has affected the workplace is telecommuting. Telecommuting is a recent trend that allows individuals to perform their work from home, instead of making their presence at the office essential. The actual definition of telecommuting is “work performed in allocation away from the central facilities...
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...Meg Whitman, Chief Executive of Hewlett-Packard and Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, have made management critiques about telecommuting. Both company leaders have claimed that telecommuting has led to poorer performance of their company’s employees. Meg Whitman wrote a memo, urging employees to show up at the office more often. Marissa Mayer wrote an article addressing the issue, in opposite favor of telecommuting. Whitman, Mayer as well as some other leaders have assessed that employees that work from home are the cause of poor financial performance and lackluster product innovation. The article I read, “A Better Way for HP to Boost Performance”, by Aubrey C. Daniels, addressed these two company leaders with a critical assessment of their management decisions on this issue. Daniels asserts that the claims of Whitman, Mayer as well as other company leaders and managers are not basing their managerial decisions on accurate assessments. She argues that this approach is misguided and flies in the face of the laws of human behavior. Daniels claims that furthermore, this method is likely to be counterproductive. The basis of the article is saying that leaders that are targeting telecommuting are missing the point that employees that work from home are not the cause of poor financial performance or lackluster product innovation, and policies forcing them back to the office will not solve the issues restraining growth. The article asserts that organizations that forbid working from...
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...and Bad of Telecommuting Information Technology has transformed the world drastically in past decade. Almost everything has undergone changes over the past few years including the way people do their job in office. Nowadays, many of the jobs can be done from home instead of doing from the office, thanks to advancement in information technology like the internet, email, and other communication methods. These are called telecommuting jobs. Even though these jobs seem convenient and have a lot of advantages, it has also a lot of disadvantages. Telecommuting has a lot of benefit for employees such as increased job satisfaction, organizational commitment, higher job performance and lower work stress and exhaustion (Allen, Golden, & Shockley, 2015) Telecommuting also makes the company more economically efficient because can reduce the amount of office space required to conduct business. Not to mention that telecommuting also giving company opportunities to hire professional employees from all over the world. Unfortunately, telecommuting may affect the social interaction among employees. They are may face isolation from and reduced level of knowledge sharing with colleagues. Working from home may also blur family-work boundaries and lead to increased amounts of work during non-work hours (Allen et al, 2015). Moreover, in telecommuting technical problems might develop such an unavailability of internet or viruses in a computer. However, the good and bad of telecommuting depends on...
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...RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS FOR A PROPOSED TELECOMMUTING PILOT PROGRAM Prepared for S. Nolan and J. Simon, BADM 1020 Casper College Prepared by Chuck Siedenburg MCP, CNA 21 November 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY………………………………...............................................2 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND…………………………...............................3 DISCUSSION OF SERVICES AND ANALYSIS……………….……………….……...4 CONCLUSION………………………………...............................................................8 REFERENCES………………………………...............................................................9 BUSINESS COMMUNICATION CLASS SURVEY ……………….………………….10 INITIAL PROPOSAL…………………………………………………………………..…12 INITIAL WORKPLAN…………………………………………………………………….15 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Nolan – Simon Consulting is a hypothetical firm with specialists in many fields. As consultants, we provide direction and support in every aspect of business. Our expertise includes Accounting, Business Administration, Communications, Computer Science, Computer Software Support, Education & Training, IT Management & Administration and Web Design & Development. The question at hand, and the basis for this particular report, is whether Telecommuting, or working from a location other than the traditional office, is a viable and feasible option for Nolan – Simon Consulting and their clientele or not. For this firm to remain at the forefront of service, we must leverage both our assets and the available technology to provide...
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...Telecommuting: The New Way of Jobs in the Next Ten Years PHI210 – Critical Thinking March 11, 2012 Telecommuting will be the new way that jobs are performed in the next ten years. Telecommuting can be defined as working from a remote location, usually a home office, by electronically linking to a company. Allowing employees the option of telecommuting whether one or more days is an opportunity that most employees would take advantage. The origins of people telecommuting date as far back as the 19th century. The first person known to work from home or at a remote work site was a Boston Bank President. This Bank President was able to work from home by having a phone line strung from his office to his home, three blocks away. Later, in the year 1963, a computer programmer working on the Arpanet Project (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) withdrew from the project to stay at home with his wife who was experiencing a difficult pregnancy. It was another programmer who suggested an additional phone line be installed in the home of the programmer attending to his ill wife so that he could complete his program from there. The practice of working from home was finally given the term name Telecommuting by Jack Nilles, a scientist working on a NASA satellite communications project in Los Angeles, in 1973. The target audience for this argument would be employees currently working both in the office and telecommuting environments...
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...seeking to offer telecommuting to their employees as an option to offset these rising costs. Oracle a company offering software enterprise systems, assists companies seeking to offer telecommuting by providing platforms in which their business can be performed seamlessly anywhere an Internet connection can be obtained. With the assurance of a secured network, the right personnel, and metrics in place to monitor the work performed, a company can recognize a modest savings per year with employees working outside of the traditional office. Also Moore’s Law had predicted and Cloud computing has helped to move us along this track of the virtual office. History of Telecommuting Telecommuting is a phenomenon that has resulted from our knowledge and growth of information technology. In today’s marketplace having up to date, and in some industries state of the art infrastructures is mandatory for organizations to remain viable; competitive among peers. According to an article in The Daily Record by Nicole Black, Moore’s law predicted that the price of computing processing power would be reduced by half every two years. This prediction quickly became reality, and as it did, and processing became increasingly affordable the Internet became an integral part of our lives (p. 1-2). . It is the growth of this technology that has led to the transition of people working outside of the traditional office. Companies such as Deloitte have been successfully telecommuting for over 15 years...
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...and the improvement of their companies would be stimulated by these workers. Therefore, how could employees get through different method to achieve work-life balance, there are a couple of examples, flextime on work, reduced hours/ part-time, compressed work weeks, job sharing and telecommuting. Nowadays, work- life balance in telecommuting becomes a very popular topic. Simultaneously, it is a method that employees could utilize some basic mobility equipments such as laptop, smart-phone, power cords, and web-cam, etc. to achieve communication for accomplishing their job. There is around 79% growth for utilization of telecommuting in last a decade based on researches. Hence, we determine that the trend for future utilization of telecommuting could increase in near future. To support our conclusion, the following report is planning to demonstrate that there is a potential increase trend for work-life balance in telecommuting in near future via the analysis of its advantages and challenges. To be briefly, telecommuting is work arrangement that employees could work in differnet location. We think that there are 6 major benefits as advantages for utilization of telecommuting. Firstly, the telecommuting can increase the employment opportunity, especially for some special groups such as the disables,...
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...a day throughout the country and is how some people “go” to work every day. Being able to work from home, hotel, or anywhere you can think of, is telecommuting or teleworking. Decades ago you might not have imagined anyone outside the sales staff being able to work from anywhere but the office building. However, with the advances made in technology, specifically that of the internet, people can potentially work from almost anywhere they might wish. The idea of working from home may be viewed as being fundamentally instinctive. William R. Mattox Jr., the vice president of the Family Research Council said, “technologies such as computers and fiber optics could create a ‘neo-agrarian technical revolution’ that would put workers back in their homes, as they were before the 19th century Industrial Revolution lured them away from their farms (Clark).” In essence, telecommuting can be viewed as a natural process by which we have functioned historically and are now in the process of reverting back to our natural ways. Advances in technology have closed the gaps between homes, offices, towns, cities, and continents by building electronic bridges using the information super highway to catapult society into the Information Age. The transition from office to home must be transparent to the customer (Business Plugs into Telecommuting: Bringing Work to People rather than People to Work) and can be completed by ensuring the individual has all the amenities of the corporate office,...
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...TCP1* English Composition II (UG 0214) | | Topic: Work Place Productivity Research Question: are employees more productive when working from home? Thesis Statement: Research suggest that employees are more productive at home because they have less distractions, are more comfortable and are able to achieve work life balance. References: 1. O’Leary, M. B. (Mar 15, 2013). Telecommuting Can Boost Productivity and Job Performance Retrieved from http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2013/03/15/telecommuting-can-boost-productivity-and-job-performance. A. Companies should not require all employees to work on site all the time. While telecommuting is popular, it is not something that's run amok and–when well managed–it boosts productivity, commitment, work-life balance and retention. Presented by Michael Boyer O'Leary is an assistant professor of management, Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. Relevance based on the authors review of the actualized benefits of some workers working from home B. This article is about the benefits of some employees working from home. The argument is that some not all teleworkers do see a boost in productivity, employee retention and work life balance. Mr. O’Leary an assistant processor at the prestigious Georgetown University, Directly sites Yahoo’s recall of employees back to the office as an example of a mistake. The author uses research from Stanford University, The US census and the Harvard school of business...
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...Telecommuting: will it change the world? Telecommuting will have major effects in the worlds of work and family life. However, its biggest effect will be in the area of individual freedom, responsibility, and time management. Work and workplaces will alter dramatically. Offices may become smaller, as fewer desks are needed. There will be greater need for high-bandwidth connections to link the office and the home, and even homes to other homes, as other employees and supervisors also begin working at home. Hours spent commuting, traffic jams, and fights for parking should diminish, as workers make fewer journeys or work staggered hours. Family life will also change. Workers, both husbands and wives, can arrange their work around family commitments such as taking children to school, cooking, leisure activities, etc. However, households will also have to set aside areas for work - particularly if both spouses are telecommuting. However, although the ideas of more time at home and less time traveling are attractive, there are some drawbacks to telecommuting. People may feel unable to escape their work, and may even work longer or more unsocial hours. The quality of work may suffer because of the reduced face-to-face interaction with other employees. There may be delays if other workers are not immediately available. Telecommuters may feel isolated or unmotivated, or insecure about decisions. A major change will be in the way people think about work as a place or an institution...
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...to perform their jobs away from the traditional physical workplace. The most common form of virtual work, called telecommuting or teleworking, involves working at home rather than commuting to the office” (McShane & Von Glinow, 2010, p. 22). Summary: In his article, “Unilever Moves Employee Telecommuting to a New Level,” Gary M. Stern writes about how most employers today offer telecommuting and some go beyond that. Unilever is a consumer goods company that in 2010 launched a program titled “Agile Working” that allows its employees to telecommute anytime anywhere. With a 30% participation rate, employees are encouraged to work as long as they are making results. Stern alludes to various advantages of telecommuting such as avoiding commuting, flexible scheduling, and changing work environments. Advantages for the company include cutting global travel costs, office overhead, and achieving a higher level of talent in its employees. “Agile Working” is a flexible virtual work program that offers its employees flexibility, mobility, and challenges them in return (Stern 2012). Discussion: Virtual work is helping employees essentially blur the line between work and home. By letting employees use information technology and do their jobs away from the workplace they can be connected at home, on the road, or in a coffee shop. Research shows advantages of telecommuting include potentially reducing stress in employees, increase in employee productivity, and of course less pollution...
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