Today, companies increasingly agreeing with what I call “work from home” movement. The main company is flirting with the idea that working from home not only improves the productivity of their employees, but also has a huge impact on the environment. Working at home can greatly reduce your carbon footprint, and gives you more time to spend on personal things work or fit in bit more
Companies like Sun Microsystems is one of the pioneers of this movement, which supported what he likes to call “open work, the service of their employees for about 17 years now. Currently, more than 11,000 to 19,000 Sun employees to take advantage of this program.
Quick Facts
- Each employee has saved about $ 1500 per year on gas from one path, while saving nearly 3 weeks of time lost in travel.
- Each employee also reduce their energy consumption of 5400 kilowatt hours per year
- This program only takes 24 months to implement, an impressive result for a company the size of Sun
In recent years, several companies have adopted similar policies work from home. Another good example is the Cisco system, which found the same benefits to their employees’ productivity and work-life balance. An extensive study by Cisco with a group of 1992 employees in the summer of 2009 found that the average employee telecommute average of 2 days per week. 60% of the time saved is spent to get to work, and 40% was spent on personal time. Consequently, Cisco believes that productivity year saved $ 227,000,000, and reduces emissions of greenhouse gases released into the environment as a result of the shuttle with 47,320 metric tons.
Home from work is much easier because services like GoToMeeting and Polycom, which “in-person meeting” is a thing of the past. You can be anywhere, as long as you have Internet access, a microphone and / or video cameras, and may hold meetings. As a freelance web developer, I find I’m equally effective for making meetings more than other types of software rather than to meet in person, remember (and me) busy for my client.
Thought of the Day
There’s really no downside to telecommuting. Why not talk to your employer about the possibility of telecommuting days per week?
