Highly successful people — be they inventors, presidents, military leaders, executives, actors, preachers, teachers, or homemakers — could not have been as successful without knowing how to manage their time. If you already manage your time well, telecommuting will help you manage it even better.
If you have some trouble managing your time, telecommuting will either force you to do it better or will be a miserable experience.
With the release of a new survey, the risks and rewards of telecommuting are under scrutiny again. The survey suggests that, by holding onto an old school mindset of “in the office, under our control” many companies are shooting themselves in the foot and letting measurable business benefits pass them by.
By 2012 one in every three broadband users – or 1.2 billion people – will be accessing the internet via mobile technology, new research from Jupiter indicates. It claims that 70pc of these will do so via HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access).
Document safety, a fear of lowered productivity and a lack of trust in employees are the biggest concerns U.S. executives have about allowing workers to telecommute, even as a majority of their organizations support the concept, according to a new survey.
The conflicting messages are due, in part, to executives struggling with the knowledge that telecommuting offers a competitive advantage against their long-ago bad experiences with off-premise employees, says Campbell Dobbin, CEO of Intranet Dashboard, an intranet software company.
The findings, which Intranet Dashboard released July 26, 2007, fly in the face of reports on the value of telecommuting and an expected increase in the number of employers adopting the practice.
Society for Human Resource Management