As the economy still struggles, many employers look for ways to minimize expenses and increase profitability. Allowing for employees to work from home is a great option for those employers that are feeling the budget tighten, and cannot give the employees a substantial increase in salary or benefits. Setting up this telecommuting option for employees benefits all involved, and in fact, many employees would be willing to relinquish the standard 3% cost of living raise in order to work from home.
There are many advantages for telecommuting workers and their employers, and just to name a few (taken from Globalworkplaceanalytics.com):
If those with compatible jobs and a desire to work from home did so just half the time (roughly the national average for those who do so regularly) the national savings would total over $700 Billion a year including:
•A typical business would save $11,000 per person per year
•The telecommuters would save between $2,000 and $7,000 a year
•The oil savings would equate to over 37% of our Persian Gulf imports
•The greenhouse gas reduction would be the equivalent of taking the entire New York State workforce permanently off the road.
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