The Why and How of Telecommuting

AT&T Intel IBM Cisco Oracle Nortel Devon Energy Microsoft Motorola Hewlett-Packard Qualcomm Nike Sun Microsystems Who teleworks? Federal Gov’t

Telework Statistics 2013

Higher morale. More productivity. Better customer service.

Employee Recruitment & Retention would choose mobile work Source: Global Workplace Analytics 67% of people want to 36% over a salary raise work from home

The ‘Why’

70% of employees feel their employers should take the lead in helping them solve the problem.

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OVER-INVESTMENT IN REAL ESTATE Most offices have a space utilization of 30-45% (Source: BOMA)

THE ECONOMY The average office worker costs a company $5K - $20K to office them. Resources are getting more expensive (energy, water, materials)

HEALTH PART 1 Each additional hour spent in a car increases our chance of being obese by 6%....2 hours 12%....3 hours…18%...and on and on and on….

Health Part 2- Air Quality High accumulations of ground-level pollution is harmful to people, animals, crops and other materials. Potential human affects ● burning eyes and nose ● headaches ● itchy irritated throat ● nausea ● coughing or wheezing ● cancer ● difficulty breathing ● birth defects ● brain damage ● nerve damage ● long-term injury to lungs and breathing passages and hardening of the heart and arteries

Air Quality and Health Source: Quote from the American Lung Association in Dallas Morning News – Smog's Toll on Society - September 14, 2003 “The EPA estimates the mobile points of air pollution account for as much as half of all cancers attributed to outdoor sources of air pollution.” Source: University of Florida, Article on Transportation Demand Management “Scientists estimate that between 50,000 and 100,000 people die each year of diseases related to air pollution.”

THE HAPPY FACTOR Retention and employee satisfaction is higher in organizations that offer telework programs (Source: Too many now to cite)

Millennials

THE NEW WORKFORCE Starting with Generation X, the workforce has shifted in how they work and collaborate. Being tied to an office is not perceived as a benefit to the new workforce. Generation Y is the fastest growing segment of the workforce. Generation Y is much less likely to respond to the traditional command- and-control type of management.

UTOPIA

The ‘How’

STEP 1: MAKE THE CASE Others data, Your data

Address the emotional aspect

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz…. What the heck does that mean to me? What is this?

Step 2: Build you fan base

Step 3: Design

Step 4: Train

Step 5: Take Baby Steps

Step 6: Build Your Case (and Communication)

Step 7: Systemize and Simplify

STAY INFORMED. GET IN THE LOOP

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