the why and how of telecommuting copyright © 2015 the thrival company. all rights reserved

The Why and How ofTelecommuting

Copyright © 2015 The Thrival Company. All Rights Reserved.

AT&T

Intel

IBM

Cisco

Oracle Nortel

Devon Energy

Microsoft

MotorolaHewlett-PackardQualcomm

Nike

Sun Microsystems

Who teleworks?

Federal Gov’t


Telework Statistics 2013


Higher morale.

Moreproductivity.

Better customer service.


Employee Recruitment & Retention

would choose mobile work

Source: Global Workplace Analytics

67% of people want to

36% over a salary raise

work from home


The ‘Why’


70% of employees feel their employers should take the lead in helping them solve the problem.


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The average worker costs a company $5K to $20K to office.

Most offices average around 30-45% space utilization. Increasing cost of energy, water, and materials.

Mobile work cuts costs.

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• Best Buy, British Telecom, Dow Chemical and many others found teleworkers are 35-40% more productive.

• Sun Microsystems’ experience suggests that employees spend 60% of the commuting time they save performing work for the company.

• Businesses lose $600 billion a year in workplace distractions.

• Over two-thirds of employers report increased productivity among their telecommuters.

Mobile Work = IncreasedEmployee Productivity


Mobile Work

means fewer sick

days.

– Teleworkers typically continue to work when they’re sick.

– 5,000,000 employed American adults have called into work sick because they couldn’t face their commute.

– Unscheduled absences cost employers $1,800/employee per year.

– Organizations that implement telework programs achieve 63% reduction in unscheduled absences.


Over-investment in Real Estate

Most offices have a space utilization of 30-45% (Source: BOMA)


The economy

The average office worker costs a company $5K - $20K to office them.Resources are getting more expensive (energy, water, materials)


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Health part 1

Each additional hour spent in a car increases our chance of being obese by 6%....2 hours 12%....3 hours…18%...and on and on and on….


Long hours of commuting, especially if you’re driving, is associated with:

•high blood pressure •musculoskeletal disorders•increased risk of heart attacks •flu, depression

Mobile work and less commuting means better health.


Health Part 2- Air Quality

• High accumulations of ground-level pollution is harmful to people, animals, crops and other materials.

• Potential human affects

● burning eyes and nose ● headaches● itchy irritated throat ● nausea● coughing or wheezing ● cancer● difficulty breathing ● birth defects● brain damage ● nerve damage● long-term injury to lungs and breathing passages and hardening of the heart and arteries


Air Quality and Health

Source: Quote from the American Lung Association in Dallas Morning News – Smog's Toll on Society - September 14, 2003

“The EPA estimates the mobile points of air pollution account for as much as half of all cancers attributed to outdoor sources of air pollution.”

Source: University of Florida, Article on Transportation Demand Management

“Scientists estimate that between 50,000 and 100,000 people die each year of

diseases related to air pollution.”


The happy factor

Retention and employee satisfaction is higher in organizations that offer telework programs (Source: Too many now to cite)


Those with longer commutes:•Report being “less satisfied with their lives” •Rate their daily activities as “less worthwhile”•Report “higher anxiety” •Feel more anger and resentment at work•Are 40% more likely to separate from their marital partners.

Mobile work and less commuting means less stress.

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Millennials

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The new workforce

Starting with Generation X, the workforce has shifted in how they work and collaborate. Being tied to an office is not perceived as a benefit to the new workforce.

Generation Y is the fastest growing segment of the workforce.

Generation Y is much less likely to respond to the traditional command-and-control type of management.


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The ‘How’


Step 1:Make the case

Others data, Your data

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Zzzzzzzzzzzzz….

What the heck does that mean to me?

What is this?


Step 2: Build you fan base


Step 3:

Design


Step 4:Train


Step 5:TakeBabySteps


Step 7: Systemize and Simplify


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This presentation created by:Elizabeth Frisch, 512.656.7518

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• This presentation was created by Kate Krueger and Elizabeth Frisch from The Thrival Company. If you use this presentation in your own company, we request for copyright reasons that you acknowledge the content was developed by our organization as follows:

“Content of this presentation was adapted from sample training materials provided by: The Thrival Company. www.thrivalcompany.com, t. @mobilityworker”

Elizabeth Frisch, CXO

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m. 512.656.7518, o. 512.481.2123

Kate Krueger, Client Relations

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