Telecommuter

round-trip is over $4,000 annually. Depending upon how far someone travels to and from work, how much a person spends for clothing, morning coffee and lunches, the savings could be significant to employees. Regardless, the average savings for a telecommuter would be between $2,000 and $7,000. Based on the research conducted on other companies of various sizes, the financial benefit of telecommuting to Corona Corporation would also be substantial. The research shows that businesses would save around

Telecommuting: The New Way of Jobs in the Next Ten Years PHI210 – Critical Thinking March 11, 2012 Telecommuting will be the new way that jobs are performed in the next ten years. Telecommuting can be defined as working from a remote location, usually a home office, by electronically linking to a company. Allowing employees the option of telecommuting whether one or more days is an opportunity that most employees would take advantage. The origins of people

The article highlights the advantages and disadvantages of the phenomenon of telecommuting at three different levels: the individual, organizational, and societal level. First, Harpaz explains that telecommuting does not have single definition because of “the sheer number of tasks that can now be carried out remotely-and the number of ways in which this can be achieved” (Harpaz, 2002, pp. 74-75). Although, telecommuting has no single definition according to Harpaz, one underlying understanding is

Telecommuting in the workplace Matthew Broline November 4, 2016 WRTG 394 Transmittal Memorandum To: Dr. Getman, James From: Broline, Matthew C. Date: 12 October 2016 Subject: Implementing a telecommuting policy Summary: The company is in need of a telecommuting policy. The policy would allow employees to be able to work from a remote location of their choosing. Adding a telecommuting policy would save the company money on building space, workstations, desk, and employee turnovers. The

Implementing a Telecommuting Policy 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Topic Investigation With telecommuting on the rise since 2005, Flexjobs has shown that the number of workers who are telecommuting has increased by over 60 percent, with now over 2 million people working a flexible schedule at least part-time and that Seventy-nine percent of all workers would work from home at least part-time if their companies allowed it(Flexjobs, 2015). While speaking with the employees with in different departments of

Speaking Notes Title: Telecommuting – Working from Home Name: Leigh Ann Anderson Purpose: To persuade the audience how telecommuting is beneficial to them and try to convince them to consider it for their jobs. I. Introduction a. Imagine an alarm going off, waking you from a deep sleep. It’s 8 am on a Monday morning and, after much reluctance, you stumble out of bed, take a shower, brush your teeth, and trudge to your kitchen for your morning cup of coffee. Realizing it’s time to

According to the Globe and Mail, as of 2013, 23% of Canadian Companies offered employees the option to telecommute. A Statistics Canada study stated that in 2000, 1,425,700 respondents worked from home, where as in 2008 the number of people working from home was 1,748,600, a small but notable upward trend. Though numbers are only increasing slowly, more and more Canadians are working from home. The trend is particularly impacting university graduates, of who more than 1 in 5 work from home. Factors

Managing and Leading Telecommuters in the 21rst Century Introduction and Literature Review Given the escalating costs of managing facilities, increase in fuel costs, and high cost of recruiting the specific types of professionals to work in a given geographic area, telecommuting has become a viable alternative for any organization today. No longer having to invest heavily in a large corporate facility, be forced to recruit only from a given geographic region, or incur the very high fuel costs

of existing and potential customers impacting overall business M H Take immediate action to tighten security including all employee access to customer sensitive information Ben Malinda Identify and install the latest security software on all telecommuters' PCs and enforce strict rules for information access including password

home (2003:5). In addition, telecommuting provides flexible work hours, which allows telecommuters to spend more time at home with their families so as to strengthen emotional ties within them. Therefore, as Raines and Leathers explain “telecommuters perceive the consequences of the alternative workplace to be an improved quality of home”(2001:2). Many people contend that telecommuting might pose telecommuters to problems of reduced health. Lack of mobility in doing their work and “alienation from