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Work at home is not only good for employees, families and our society as a whole, it's also great for business!

Over 150 million dollars in benefit in one year alone. That's the financial benefit reported by AT&T for its work at home or teleworking program(s) in 2003. And each year more and more employees become off-site or telecommuting employees for AT&T.

Work at home programs of smaller companies may realize a much smaller but far more far-reaching and dramatic benefit.

According to AT&T, a telecommuting pioneer that has been conducting virtual employment/telecommuting research since 1992, there are many benefits to employers who offer telecommuting jobs, as well as numerous and important benefits to families and society as a whole. There are also benefits to AT&T, a global networking company, as more and more companies convert to networked virtual or virtual employment environments instead of traditional brick and mortar environments.

Among the main benefits to companies who allow their employees to telecommute or work at home are: increased productivity, reduced overhead costs, less turnover, happier employees and big advantages in recruiting. Ironically, companies who offer work at home opportunities to their employees and prospective employees, especially when recruiting stay at home moms and parents, find themselves with a huge advantage over competitors who do not allow their employees to telecommute, while at the same time reducing their overhead and hiring costs.

Employer cost reductions attributed to work at home or telecommuting programs

  • Recruiting advantages/Lower recruiting costs
  • Ability to attract better candidates
  • Increased productivity creates need for fewer employees
  • Lower turnover/reduced training costs
  • Lower turnover/lower recruiting costs
  • Reduction in office space
  • Reduction in general office expenses
  • Lower equipment maintenance costs
  • Potential cost savings in employee benefits
  • Huge benefits often resulting from increased productivity
  • Reduction in relocation expenses
  • Ability to hire from larger geographic area and not necessary to relocate candidates

What reductions in overhead costs, you ask? The list is long. Home-based employees do not occupy company real estate space. Virtual employees do not consume company-paid utilities. Employees who work at home may be working on their own office equipment, such as PC, internet access, phone and/or fax, although some employers do provide and/or pay for these expenses. Employees who work at home are less likely to quit so recruiting and training costs and greatly reduced. Employees who work from their own homes are more productive so fewer employees are needed to achieve the same results. Employees who are highly motivated to work at home, such as moms and dads, may work for less salary if they're allowed to stay at home, and working at home also costs employees less. Companies who find themselves frequently paying for relocation costs of existing and/or new employees will find that these costs virtually disappear into smoke when they convert these jobs into home-based or telecommuting jobs.

Creating such telecommuting job opportunities is indeed a win-win-win situation for employers, employees and society as a whole.

Companies who allow their employees to work on computer networks at home instead of brick and mortar offices realize many other benefits as well. Companies who allow employees to telecommute can recruit from virtually anywhere and have no relocation costs associated with employees who do not live within commuting distance to a traditional brick and mortar office. Additionally, companies can recruit employees who are not willing to relocate.

We would add that, as we somberly remember the events of September 11, 2001 during which whole companies were wiped out because they were centrally located, it is noteworthy that companies who are not centrally located and who employ a full or partially home-based work at home workforce are safer from such types of attacks. Similarly one must consider the extreme and destructive losses in productivity in the America Media offices in Florida during their anthrax attack when the entire building had to be closed for many days. Similar interruptions in productivity occurred in government and other buildings and could occur virtually anytime in any building in America for reasons ranging from electricity blackouts to weather disasters. From this perspective companies and employees are far safer and potentially far more productive if they work at home.

Allowing your employees to work from their own homes is good for business and it's just plain good!

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