Teleworking

Thanks to teleworking, workers enjoy a better balance work and home life. Both the individual and the company cut commuting costs and focus on work tasks. Teleworking means moving the work instead of the people. An effective mix of communication tools such as computers, phones and visual communication technologies, connected to the Internet make most of the daily trips to an office unnecessary, at least some of the days in a week.

Many managers find that teleworking programs can bring a variety of benefits. Studies have shown that the right employee in the right program reacts positively to teleworking, and these positive feelings make for a more steady and productive work force. Besides these obvious advantages of teleworking, it can also result in reduced office/car space and travel costs, offer more flexible work arrangements to attract and retain staff, more self-reliant and productive staff and of course the environmental benefits.

Critical success factors to enable teleworking are : supportive management with managers able to manage employees on output rather than on input, selecting appropriate people and roles for teleworking (not suited for everyone) and last but not least two critical components where Teleportel brings unparalleled value to the table : first of all high-quality interaction between teleworkers and their colleagues and secondly a good communications structure such as visual communications.

Teleportel recommends the i2i-DeskTop or the i2i-Conference for home-workers. These small foot-print devices will ensure that home-workers are not ‘left out of the loop’ and that they are not being cut off from the ‘social interaction’ of the office. Thanks to the strong sense of presence and especially the eye-contact, the interaction with colleagues at work or at home, are as natural and effective as when actually being together in one room. To the home-worker it simply offers the comfort of sitting at the right table at the right time being part of the right discussion with the right people.

We have different complete home-working workstations depending on the available space and the percentage of time spent at home vs. spent at work.

For more information, contact us by filling in this request.