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TELECOMMUTING BENEFITS EVERYONE

Mick Meitner

Western Governor’s University

WGU Student ID# 000412730

TELECOMMUTING BENEFITS EVERYONE

For decades, going to work meant commuting to your company’s physical location to perform your expected duties, tasks, and projects. Now with today’s technological capabilities, employers can allow their employees to work from remote locations without an impact to their jobs. And with careful planning and rigorous implementations, few, if any, of teleworking programs will fail (Kaczmarczyk, 2008). In fact, there can be a great benefit to both the employer and the employee by implementing telework programs. Companies should implement a telecommuting policy because they can benefit from cost savings and an increase in productivity, morale, and job satisfaction from their employees.

Telecommuting programs save employers money because the cost of resources they need to provide to employees in their physical location is less. The employer would need smaller office space for employees that work remotely full time, and it also allows those that telecommute only part of the time to share work space with other employees when not in the office. In the federal government, the Department of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration estimates that the IRS saved more than $111 million over a five year period when having teleworkers sharing office space (Smith, 2013). Chinese travel website Ctrip estimates that it saved $1,900 on furniture and space per employee that was allowed to telecommute during a nine month study (Berinato, 2014, p. 28). Needing less physical space and equipment because employees are working remotely full or part time, also reduces the utilities and services needed to maintain and operate those buildings and resources. Employers could see a reduction in their utility bills such as electricity and gas needed to provide lights and power to the building, as well as heating and cooling to...