Advantages Of Teleworking

The purpose of this brief is to determine wether to establish work-at-home policy for selected employees at the Q-tel Pty Ltd. Information and communication technologies (ICT) make it possible for employees to work at home and deliver their work output to the firm by those ICT. This work arrangement is called telecommuting (Sarbu, 2015).

Telecommuting for our agency will be defined as an employee is working away from the office for one or more days within a given week (Managing pg. 9). Employees will be permitted to work from home or elsewhere if they prefer. By allowing telecommuting we are reducing the amount of travel time required for those who may need greater flexibility in their schedule. As well as giving our employees

Many people work in telecommuting jobs where all they really need is a place to sit and a computer with internet connection. Other businesses allow workers to work from home or set them a set of working hours on site.

It seems that employers are afraid that they will not be able to effectively monitor employees output and have major security concerns when allowing employees to telework. The initial costs of setting up telework to employees may also be a concern for employers.

Employers allow telecommuting for many reasons, including the ability to recruit better talent, decrease overhead expenses, increase productivity, expand the employee base to include those with disabilities (Anderson, Bricout & West, 2001; Lipin, 2010; Myungjung & So Hee, 2017), and to support

“This remote work may be something we should be doing more of, according to two new studies. Working from home can be good for your health and productivity. Not only did people who worked from home report greater work satisfaction and less “work exhaustion,” they also got better sleep. Separately, researchers found that the highest performing workers were the most likely to cultivate and excel in a “WFH” environment (Gregoire, 2015)”. If workers don't prefer to work at home they are more than welcome to continue working at the main workplace. The company will give each employee the opportunity to try working from home in order to have more space at the main work

In the 1990s Telecommuting became popular. (“Wikipedia”, n.d., para.1) It allowed a way for employers to have workers that still accomplished the day to day task necessary to run a business and also allowed employee’s to work without traveling into a dedicate office building or store. In today’s society, I have noticed that there are more job posting for software developers in the United States that offer working remotely versus working at an office building. The purpose of the dissertation is to find out the habits and work ethics of successful remote workers so that a hiring manager could target those traits while interviewing potential candidates for telecommuting work.

The definition for telecommuting or telework can be summarized as the process of working from a home environment through electronic methods, utilizing the home

A revolution is spreading through the world of work because of changes in information, technology and communication. Information and technology has lessened the gaps between individuals and it is no longer necessary for people to be in close geographic location to enhance working capabilities. Telework means working at a distance and technology makes this possible. Teleworkers are defined as employees or contractors who work at least one day per month; they are also referred to as telecommuters. Research shows that teleworkers work nine days per month at home with three hours per week during normal business hours. Teleworkers seek to blend work responsibilities and personal benefits to enable them handle their work better and life responsibilities.

Teamwork and collaboration are essential parts of the creative process. Although it is not impossible to work in creative teams from home, telecommuting comes with certain communication roadblocks, making it harder to come up with viable, out-of-the-box ideas. As stated by Joonas Virtanen “According the study, far the biggest hurdles for creative remote work were the following: Communication suffers significantly, spontaneity is often lost, and lack of interpersonal relationships makes the work less stimulating” (2015). The study also showed that from the pool of workers surveyed, “only 15% think having remote team members increases the quality of work [and] 46% felt the quality of the creative work suffered due to working remotely” (Virtanen, 2015). Face-to-face communication has proven to be more effective than telecommuting when

Different nations have come up with different work programs and policies that support alternative work programs. In the United States, there is the Tele-work enhancement Act of 2010 passed in to law by President Barrack. The act provides a blueprint on how to improve technology that will enable incorporation and assimilation of alternating work programs. The main objective of this program is retaining the high qualified persons, retaining valuable, and employees with great talents (Sukal, 2010). Through the Tele-work act, entails well formulated and implemented Tele-work programs that permits the federal agencies to achieve their objectives and also enables employees to improve their work and social life. In particular, this Act allows improvement

Many Interns are working full time at ISEC, performing the same duties as other non-Intern employees. Because of that, Recent Graduate Interns qualify for full benefits. Interns deal with the same day to day life issues as anyone else. For example, a contagious illness or an injury which, although preventing an in-office work day, does not necessitate work stoppage, if working from home is an option. Under normal circumstances an Intern would need to take leave, and miss work. They would have to pass off their work to somebody else, who likely knows less about the project subject matter. If he/she could telework the Intern could support their current mission and continue to work and stay in contact with their management team. Many employees enjoy health and fitness. If an intern had the ability to telework he/she could go on a run, lift weights, or do yoga and not need the extra time to drive to a gym, and shower if they are already home. Interns that have commutes of an hour or more can shave two hours off their time and dedicate that to their training and their projects. Within the Intern population at ISEC FDED, the benefit of teleworking would easily increase moral in the work force and increase our retain rate of new employees, with no cost to the organization. Productivity has been shown to increase, with the increased work-life

The main advantage I recall from teleworking is that you get to arrange your schedule as you prefer, and that gives you a lot of flexibility in case you have children or elderly people at home you have to take care of. But, everything has a downside and this is not an exception, so, I think that the said flexibility may originate a decrease in the production or achievements per worker.

As far as innovation, institutions can implement innovative approaches, such as telecommuting. In telecommuting, “employees can carry out their regular work activities from the privacy of their own home” (Lazar, et al., 2010). In the Healthcare Clinic, telecommuting can be applied so that nurse practitioners can perform uncompleted task at the privacy of their own home. This may reduce the toll of working long hours and receive compensation while working at home. The other advantages of telecommuting are that it reduces “commuting time, to be able to work in a less disruptive and stressful environment, reduce work-related expenses, and most importantly, allows the employees to organize their work around their family and personal needs”

Most people around the world witnessed the explosion of computer technology in the year 1990s including America and other continents. This new technology has led to changes and has caused numerous dynamic in where and how people work. For instance, there are people known as the telecommuters who work for various organizations full time or part time at homes rather than traveling to the offices. This is possible because homes and offices are connected through electronic networking. As a result,