Sometimes I forget that when we compete with a prospect’s current situation, whether that’s with a Manager Service provider or their internal staff, we actually provide a dramatic amount of other things they never could…
Disaster Recovery, Redundancy, Expertise, Scalability, Variable Cost IT, the list goes on and on!
Continue Reading June 30, 2009
Give Your Employees, and Yourself, a Raise with Telecommuting and Remote Access
Minnesota has started an eWorkPlace Initiative focusing on increasing company’s bottom lines by encouraging remote workers and technologies that support remote offices, just like IVDesk! (www.eworkplace-mn.com)
Telecommuting is an employee benefit that your company should examine – especially with the rising cost of fuel. Employers giving their employees the ability to telecommute can end up putting the employee’s gross wages back in to their employee’s pockets. In addition, telecommuting and remote access can increase productivity across an entire organization – sometimes in very dramatic ways.
Consider this example: with gas at $4/gallon, an employee with a commute longer than 15 miles each way to work could save $750/year. The employee spends 1/2 hour in the car each way, and driving an inefficient vehicle they would see a savings of $8/day for the days they work from home, plus they gain the extra hour that they would normally spend commuting. If an employee were to do this twice a week, the annual savings are pretty staggering:
- More than $750 saved annually in fuel costs (not including automobile maintenance, parking, etc).
- More than 96 hours NOT spent in the car commuting to/from work.
Whether you double the efficiency of the vehicle or half the price of fuel, the math still works out to some dramatic time and cost savings for the employee.
From the employer’s perspective, allowing people to telecommute can contribute to employee retention and overall productivity. If you examine a small company with 50 employees and assume that the average number of sick days that each employee takes each year is 3, this means that annually the company is losing 1200 hours of employee productivity to sick days. If we were to assume that in 25% of these cases the employee was taking care of a sick child/family member or they wanted to work a 1/2 day, telecommuting would give more than 150 hours back to the company in time that they otherwise would have lost.
Implementing full remote access within you company could lead to some other huge benefits. Allowing sales staff to work from home after meetings or after hours may decrease conversion times and increase sales – putting more money in everyone’s pockets. Accounting and Law Firms that rely on revenue from billable hours will be surprised by the boost that full remote access can have to the bottom line – often times it is more than 50+ additional billable hours that these firms see from some employees.
Randy Olson provides companies with IVDesk, a completely hosted computer network solution that allows employees to work from everywhere, all without having to purchase any expensive hardware or software.
Contact information: 612.605.9677
Email: rolson@ivdesk.com Website: www.ivdesk.com.
June 25, 2009
