Flexible & remote working
Making mobility mainstream
Flexible & remote working has now
become a fact of life. Since the Government’s ‘Flexible Working
Regulations’ came into force, many companies, including
Lloyds Bank, IBM, GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, ASDA and BP, have
embraced the concept.
The benefits of remote working are
increasingly well understood; staff gain from a better work/life
balance, while the company has an opportunity to cut the cost of
office overheads through the use of hot desking and by reducing
'dead' travel time. The 2006 CIPD Labour Turnover Survey found that
it cost £8,200 to replace an average employee, with this rising to
£12,000 for senior managers, flexible working has also proved to be
a key tool for retaining and motivating staff.
The same technologies driving flexible
working also carry significant benefits in other areas too. For
instance, companies with mobile workforces can offer their
employees remote access to the full range of corporate
communications services and functions, such as reading emails,
sending voice or text messages, checking diaries and accessing
product, sales, and ordering systems. Utilising more flexible and
efficient networking can bring productivity benefits too; own
research found that if every employee used smarter technology, they
could have up to 50 minutes a day, 250 minutes a week, 2 days a
month or 24 days a year to focus on the more important issues.
Underpinning such fluid, flexible working
practices are the platforms and tools which start with broadband
networks and end in laptops, handheld and mobile devices. It's now
possible for remote workers to use their home PC as if they were in
the office, even making phone calls with Voice-over-IP using the
corporate network. Modern networks can also enable hot desking by
combining the best elements of wireless and wired networking, as
well as facilitating multimedia and unified communications.
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