Teleworking is a highly efficient solution to an organization and a green solution to the environment, so how come more businesses are not utilizing remote offices? The main factors behind the resistance to teleworking include: technology and security issues, as well as letting go of the traditional face to face management style. In order to create a successful teleworking program employer and employee must overcome these issues.
Technology
The standard set of equipment needed for an employee to work remotely is a phone, printer, personal computer, fax machine, software, and high speed internet. A VoIP phone, which would allow call management and teleconferencing and a good headset which would allow an employee to work with both hands freely will maximize a teleworker’s time.
Security
Security is always a concern within a business, especially when businesses take on remote employees. VPN (Virtual Private Network) accessing is a cost effective solution that provides remote and secure access to a businesses intranet for a teleworker. Setting security compliance training will not only educate employees about security risks and concerns, but will also help employees understand the best practices for security safety and consequences when not complying to such policies.
Trust
A recent Booz Allen Hamilton and Partnership for Public Service study discovered that federal managers were the largest single factor among barriers to adopting a remote employee program. In order to beat those barriers managers need to start thinking outside the traditional management style. Performance needs to be measured in results, not in punch reports. Setting expectations with an employee when starting a telework program will be the key to the programs success.
Teleworking is highly impactful to the efficiency of an organizations infrastructure and it’s benefits on the environment range from less traffic on the roads to less office space needed. With proper training and equipment, management should feel confident in their teleworkers.
With massive sales, Droid has been dominating the smartphone market, a market once dominated by the iPhone. Too step up to the Droid competition Apple will need to expand, will this include branching out to Verizon networks? Insiders are confident that rumors of iPhone heading to Verizon are in fact true and Apple will create a CDMA version of iPhone for the first half of 2011.
An important and almost always overlooked strategy for a company to save money is for a telecom review. A telecom review is an audit of your telecommunications network billing and contracts, done by professionals who can find money saving errors. Telecom services account for one of the five largest expenses a business will face and with the many changes in the business and communications world what was good then may not be in your best interest now, so it is always imperative to stay on top of your telecom contract and here is why:
