June 2020
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
9h 33m
English
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CHAPTER 2How Remote Working Benefits Employers
Chapter 1 conveys that it’s absolutely possible for unsupervised employees to make essential contributions to their employers’ objectives. Expanding on that concept, in this chapter we’ll look at the many ways offering employees the option to work remotely benefits employers. We’ll also identify some concerns about the potential pitfalls of the remote option—as well as the means of avoiding such drawbacks. Ultimately, growing evidence indicates that, for many companies, in a wide range of industries, the pros of the remote option far outweigh the cons.
Reasons to Offer the Remote Option
The trend is undeniable: more and more companies are offering flexible work options to their established employees and/or are hiring remote staff. For example, according to a joint 2017 Eurofound/ILO (International Labour Office) report, in 1995 just 9 percent of global workers telecommuted; by 2015, that figure had grown to 37 percent.2 And in the United States, a Gallup poll in 2012 found that 39 percent of employees worked away from the office at least some of the time; by 2016 that figure was 43 percent.3
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