What are the benefits of telecommuting?
“It reduces operating costs, reduces an organization’s carbon footprint – much less pollution and consumption of gasoline – and enables employees to have a better work-life balance. “It doesn’t matter to me when they work; it matters if they produce what the job calls for. If I feel like working on a report at 10 p.m. on Saturday night, I don’t have to wait until Monday. When I’m in the mood to do something, I’ve got choices. If I want to go windsurfing, I go windsurfing. “The average (telecommuting) employee across the country saves $8,000 a year in reduced personal costs. If a commute is an hour each way, then that’s two hours in a day — it’s a huge amount of time we waste bumper to bumper.” HB: What challenges did you face? “Obviously there’s got to be investment in technology, so for some businesses it could be pretty expensive.” (ComTel’s transition took about three months and Darnell says it will cost a business on average between $1,000 and $12,000.) “It’s also harder to know wh
