G2J, telecommuting facilitator
With the rapid and growing spread of new and increasingly efficient IT and telephony tools, businesses and employees are becoming better equipped with mobile solutions, erasing the boundary between work and personal life. Employees are more likely to have access to their files and their data from home. 80% of employees who take their laptop home, use it for both personal and professional use.
This nomadic lifestyle can be explained by different factors.
First of all, companies become more and more international. Moreover, mobile technologies including laptops, smartphones or touch pads, allowing remote working, become more and more popular. In 2014, 67% of phones sold will be smartphones. This headlong technological rush urges businesses to allow employees to connect to information systems from their personal equipment.
Similarly, the continuous development of the Web 2.0, by encouraging sharing and exchange, will speed up the transformation of work organization within companies.
The third factor is sociological with Generation Y (13 million "digital natives" in search of collaboration and networking) arriving on the labor market. With this new working population, there is a lot at stake for Human Resources. Companies will be forced to change the way they organize business to match the expectations of those new comers and the way they work.
Organizations will change
Computers and telecommunications, combined with the arrival of Generation Y on the labor market will give rise to new business customs ant those customs will give birth to a new organization of work. Those new practices fall within a particular context, that of an evolution towards the creation of virtual teams whose individual members are physically distant from each other, and towards a greater role for telecommuting.
Employees now go out of the boundaries of their companies: sedentary populations become mobile because companies increasingly equip them with mobile computing solutions such as laptops, smartphones and PC tablets.
What is at stake for companies is to strengthen team productivity and instill a new deal regarding labour flexibility.
Videoconferencing and telepresence make sense in this context by facilitating efficient communication and making possible optimum decision-making processes. G2J helps you to choose the right equipment, deploy it, and offer you training sessions to make your telecommuting experience run smoothly. If technology is not the only factor explaining the success of a telecommuting experience, as a support, it highly contributes to make your experience convincing.
Telecommuting includes situation when employees perform their activity outside the walls of the company , at their home or in telecenters. Implementing telecommuting, companies, employees as well as the whole society can benefit from many advantages.
What are the benefits of telecommuting for employees?
- A decrease of travel-related stress and therefore better working conditions.
- The ability to care of a child or an elderly parent while maintaining a professional activity.
- A financial benefit because employees can work full time from home rather than part time from the company.
- A financial benefit because employees can save the cost of housing in overcrowded urban areas.
What are the benefits of telecommuting for companies?
- Increased motivation and productivity
- Reduced rent ( The cost of an average workstation of an employee physically present in the company amounts to about 10 000 euros per year)
- A concrete solution to meet social needs such as the recruitment of disabled persons.
- A better image because telecommuting is a way to reduce C02 emissions.
Benefits for the society as a whole: towards sustainable companies
- A concrete solution to protect the environment
- To improve employees working conditions
- A concrete solution for a better integration of disabled people into companies
Videonconferencing tools offer the possibility to build convenient ,comfortable, and intuitive workspaces, facilitating collaboration. Your company and teammates are within reach for any team meeting you would be willing to organize, as if you were physically present in your company. You communicate directly and do not multiply mail interactions. Therefore , potential isolation related stress or the fear of a lack of resources to achieve one’s objectives shouldn’t be so with videoconferencing tools.
In addition, videoconferencing allows companies to know where are the employees working out of the firm and therefore dispel doubts regarding a possible loss of visibility and control over workforce working remotely.
Telecommuting through videoconferencing offers the advantages of a new flexible and sustainable way of working, without the drawbacks.
G2J, telecommuting facilitator.
