The Why and How of Telecommuting Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

AT&T Intel IBM Cisco Oracle Nortel Devon Energy Microsoft Motorola Hewlett-Packard Qualcomm Nike Sun Microsystems Who teleworks? Federal Gov’t Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

Telework Statistics 2013 Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

Higher morale. More productivity. Better customer service. Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

Employee Recruitment & Retention would choose mobile work Source: Global Workplace Analytics 67% of people want to 36% over a salary raise work from home Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

The ‘Why’ Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

70% of employees feel their employers should take the lead in helping them solve the problem. Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

$$  The average worker costs a company $5K to $20K to office.  Most offices average around 30-45% space utilization.  Increasing cost of energy, water, and materials. Mobile work cuts costs. Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

Best Buy, British Telecom, Dow Chemical and many others found teleworkers are 35-40% more productive. Sun Microsystems’ experience suggests that employees spend 60% of the commuting time they save performing work for the company. Businesses lose $600 billion a year in workplace distractions. Over two-thirds of employers report increased productivity among their telecommuters. Mobile Work = Increased Employee Productivity Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

Mobile Work means fewer sick days. – Teleworkers typically continue to work when they’re sick. – 5,000,000 employed American adults have called into work sick because they couldn’t face their commute. – Unscheduled absences cost employers $1,800/employee per year. – Organizations that implement telework programs achieve 63% reduction in unscheduled absences. Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

OVER-INVESTMENT IN REAL ESTATE Most offices have a space utilization of 30-45% (Source: BOMA) Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

THE ECONOMY The average office worker costs a company $5K - $20K to office them. Resources are getting more expensive (energy, water, materials) Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

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…. Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

Long hours of commuting, especially if you’re driving, is associated with: high blood pressure musculoskeletal disorders increased risk of heart attacks flu, depression Mobile work and less commuting means better health. Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

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 Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

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.” Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

THE HAPPY FACTOR Retention and employee satisfaction is higher in organizations that offer telework programs (Source: Too many now to cite) Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

Those with longer commutes: Report being “less satisfied with their lives” Rate their daily activities as “less worthwhile” Report “higher anxiety” Feel more anger and resentment at work Are 40% more likely to separate from their marital partners. Mobile work and less commuting means less stress. Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

Millennials Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

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. Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

UTOPIA Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

The ‘How’ Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

STEP 1: MAKE THE CASE Others data, Your data Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

Address the emotional aspect Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz…. What the heck does that mean to me? What is this? Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

Step 2: Build you fan base Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

Step 3: Design Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

Step 4: Train Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

Step 5: Take Baby Steps Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

Step 6: Build Your Case (and Communication) Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

Step 7: Systemize and Simplify Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

STAY INFORMED. GET IN THE LOOP Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

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This presentation was created by Kate Krueger and Elizabeth Frisch from The Thrival Company. If you use this presentation in your own company, we request for copyright reasons that you acknowledge the content was developed by our organization as follows: “Content of this presentation was adapted from sample training materials provided by: The Thrival Company. Elizabeth Frisch, CXO m , o Kate Krueger, Client Relations Manager m , o Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.