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Title: Telecommuting


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Telecommuting
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Summary Slide
  • What is Telecommuting
  • Current Status
  • Types of Telecommuting
  • Impact to Individuals (possitive)
  • Impact to Individuals (negative)
  • Impact to Business
  • Impact on Working Parents
  • Impact on the Disabled
  • Impact to Society and Environment
  • Impact on International Business
  • The Safety of Telecommuting
  • The Telecommuter Profile
  • Telecommuting Technologies

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What is Telecommuting
  • Telecommuting is the use of computers and
    telephones to enable an employee to work off-site
    and outside the traditional workplace. This could
    include working partially, like one to three days
    a week from home, or working entirely at home
    corresponding when necessary with the employer
  • Making use of information and communication
    technologies to practice some form of remote
    working
  • Telecommuting is moving the work to the workers
    instead of the workers moving to work
  • Flex-work
  • Term was coined by Jack Nilles in 1973
  • Telecommuting centers

4
Current Status
  • In 1995 9 million Americans telecommuted and in
    2002 29.7 million
  • 28.9 of American businesses practice
    telecommuting
  • 15-20 growth annually

5
Types of Telecommuting
  • Cisco Systems classifies telecommuters in three
    types
  • Day extender
  • Part-time teleworker
  • Full-time teleworker

6
Impact to Individuals (possitive)
  • More time at home with family (30 minutes - 2
    hours/day)
  • Money Savings (150/month on clothing)
  • Decreased sick time
  • Increases pool of possible employers (not
    confined to small geographic area)
  • Improved morale
  • Improves relationship with supervisor by 43
  • Improves quality of life 10 hours/week to spent
    with family, personal growth activities, sleep,
    happier
  • Lowers stress
  • Care for people at home (kids, elderly)

7
Impact to Individuals (negative)
  • Lack of social contact
  • Do not participate in group projects
  • Work hours become longer
  • Difficulties balancing work and personal life
  • Difficulties drawing a line between work and home
  • Distractions
  • Lack of assistance

8
Impact to Business
  • Could utilize abilities of the disabled
  • Reduction of capital expenditures
  • Harder working employees
  • Increased productivity by 20 25
  • Lower turnover rates
  • Cost Savings (ATT saved 10,000/year from each
    telecommuter and Merrill Lynch 10,000 through
    lower absenteeism alone)
  • Safety issues from telework
  • Possibility of loosing control over employees
  • Gratitude effect
  • Hoteling

9
Impact on Working Parents
  • Impact on the Individual discussed above and,
  • Allows parents to participate in school
    activities
  • Care for the elderly
  • Nursing mothers (feeding, pumping breast milk)
  • 74 of telecommuting workforce are couples

10
Impact on the Disabled
  • 52 of the 54 million disabled Americans suffer
    from mobility disabilities
  • In 2001, 4.3 billion was spent out to Social
    Security recipients (10 million young and
    disabled Americans receive Social Security
    disability)
  • U.S. Department of Labor introduced 2.4 million
    in grants for telework programs administered by
    the Office of Disability Policy
  • New technologies help (infrared headsets, voice
    recognition etc)

11
Impact to Society and Environment
  • Savings of 1.2 million gallons of fuel per week
    for every 10 of workers telecommuting (11 of
    energy in Japan is wasted through delays)
  • Yearly Telecommuting Cost Savings in the US is
    estimated at 23 billion
  • Less congested roads (road rage)
  • Fewer accidents
  • More free parking lots
  • Less cost in building and maintaining highways
  • People move away from the city creating areas of
    de-forested land
  • May increase cabin-fever trips
  • Increase in high-tech waste in landfills

12
Impact on International Business
  • Lower cost cost in face-to-face meetings is 7
    times more expensive than conference calls
  • Less time traveling (average time flying is 10
    hours)
  • Items described in previous slides also apply here

13
The Safety of Telecommuting
  • Reducing risk of traffic related injury
  • Children stay at home with parents
  • Terrorist acts
  • Employer is responsible for telecommuters safety
  • Home safety inspections (fire, electrical,
    equipment, home office space, air quality,
    accident sources)
  • Occupational Safety and Health Administration
    (OSHA) guidelines

14
The Telecommuter Profile
  • Telecommuters earn on the average whitle colar
    worker
  • Telecommuters work in small companies (65 in
    companies of less than 100 employees)
  • Telecommuters are concentrated in service
    industries like health care (13), education
    (9), architecture/engineering (8.8),
    communications (8.8)
  • Telecommuters are accountants, bookkeepers,
    programmers (best fit jobs for telecommuting)
  • Telecommuters understand technology (or so we
    hope)
  • Telecommuters are self motivated, results
    oriented, self disciplined and have good time
    management skills

15
Telecommuting Technologies
  • Telecommuting usually involves all the elements
    of a Computer Based Information System, including
    hardware, software, telecommunications, data,
    procedures and people
  • Hardware Computer, Printer
  • Software Job specific
  • TelecommunicationsPhone lines, Modems, Fax
    machines, Videoconferencing equipment
  • Data Access to databases
  • Procedures Related to telecommuting
  • People That make telecommuting happen (not only
    telecommuters)
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