3 Major Benefits of Telecommuting
The future of business is mobile and agile! Today, we get to know more about telecommuting and how it can benefit everyone!
Telecommuting is an arrangement between employers and employees wherein a system allows an employee to pass deliverables and complete their work remotely. Strictly speaking in this set-up, employees do not need to commute to a central area of work every day. This practice has become more common with the entrance of the Millennial workforce, but the creative industry is slowly embracing this set-up due to its benefits.
3 Major Benefits of Telecommuting
1) Cost Efficiency
Operational costs for big organizations take a big chunk of the budget, however, with telecommuting, costs are cut greatly while employees’ costs can go down as well. Employees won’t need to commute and organizations won’t need to spend as much for utilities. In more flexible cases, organizations can even reduce the workplace area, keeping rent to a minimum. Moreover, employees who aren’t kept inside the perimeter of the office will benefit you in the future since they would be more productive and more creative based on a study.
Technology also plays a big part on this as it continues to develop more programs and apps that can help employees and employers as well when it comes to submitting deliverables and meeting project timelines. Besides using email and other messaging tasks, many apps nowadays like Skype and Viber, enable face to face interaction between and among remote locations which add a sense of certainty or assurance that the project is going well as planned. However, the internet connections from either side should be in top shape especially for those that pass videos back and forth. Keeping track of how the project is going remotely is fast becoming more practical, convenient and efficient through new innovations.
2) Environmentally Friendly
Telecommuting is not only good for organizations and employees; it’s also good for the environment! With significantly less people commuting to and from work, this reduces the overall carbon footprints of individuals one at a time. Less instances of going to a physical office means less time burning fuels, less energy usage, and lesser single-use plastics. If a lot of companies adopt it, then it will create a significant change. Want to calculate how much carbon footprint a single person emits? WWF has a way to check it here.
3) Improves productivity
Organizations who allow telecommuting have employees who are happier, more productive, and more loyal to their companies, according to a Harvard Business Review article. This conclusion comes from an experiment by Ctrip, a Chinese travel website, who gave their staff a chance to work from home for nine months. Telecommuters from the experiment were found to have answered 13.5% more calls than those who in the office and those who telecommuted were more likely to work longer hours. After the experiment, 79% of employees said that they prefer telecommuting if they were permitted to, and this equated to 79% of employees who are happier and more contented as part of the organization.
Of course, there would still be some people who are not likely to adopt this system since it’s not aligned to traditional set-ups, especially those that require manual labor. However, telecommuting is something any entrepreneur should consider, even for a team of an organization. Ranging from practical savings to a greener impact, telecommuting can definitely help you and your organization!
With the advent of technology and it’s continuous development over time, changes are inevitable including our work processes.
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