The pros and cons.
In one study conducted in the USA, it was found that in 2048 employees of one insurance company travels an average of 21.4 miles per day. These employees have to pass a total of 12.4 million miles a year, the total time they spend traveling to and from work at nearly half a century. If you travel a mile cost (in 1974 prices) 22 cents, the total annual cost of travel was 2.73 million dollars Researchers have shown that the organization can work at home 29 times to reduce fuel consumption while traveling to work on personal vehicles and 2.11 times - when using public transport.
Although these costs are employees, entrepreneurs are forced to participate in them implicitly, increasing the salaries of organizing and parking for private vehicles in the central (business) district.
When organizing a sufficient number of jobs at home volume of intra trips to U.S. cities, for example, in 1975, would be reduced by 12-14% - and for the year would have saved 75 million barrels of gasoline. This would completely free the U.S. from imported oil.
If the contract home to work part-time, you can install and more flexible schedule - depending on production needs.
The cost of buildings or rent in the downtown area is very high. The organization of work at home the number of employees directly to the office is reduced, while also decreasing the cost of lighting, heating, air conditioning, cleaning. Some of these costs have to bear themselves home workers.
Employees save time on trips - this increases their spare time. In addition, they have greater flexibility to divide their time between work and other activities, most of the employee who decides when and how it should work. Is also expected to work at home will be the dominant form for the liberal professions, while "freedom" and then the profession will not give the full economic independence from the employer.
However, all these factors that can contribute to work at home have their drawbacks.
Social risk and exclusion from the team.
Companies are looking at home-based workers as temporary workers or as a part-time. This gives them the right not to pay many kinds of social insurance and benefits. As a rule, they set a lower wage. The pretext for this is the ability to pass along the lines of long-distance part of the work in those areas where wages are lower rates. Indeed, imagine the Chief of Staff. He needs to turn Dictaphone tape recordings from the just-concluded meeting of the transcript, which must be typed or entered in a computer memory for subsequent distribution via email. The traditional method of solving this problem has been instructed her professional typist. She wore headphones (so as not to disturb neighbors and not to suffer the most from the background noise), sat down at the keyboard and listening to the record, created a typewritten document. The result of this work could be native image of a document if it is "printed" it is not on a normal typewriter, and the display connected to your computer. The entrepreneur was to ensure that the typist working space, which is necessary to clean, light, heat, contain a parking lot for a car in which she gets to work ...
It is much cheaper to put the same typist in her own apartment. At any time (even when the mistress was not at home), an automatic device attached to her phone, record the tape recording of that meeting, redeployed from the office of the employer. There will also be listed and period of performance tasks. At a convenient time for the worker (not necessarily in one step) to pick up the keyboard text transcript, which in this case, line by line would appear on the screen home screen and then written to tape or a small disk. When you are finished with this magnetic media text on normal telephone line will be transferred to the office where the computer will print out if needed (already on paper) the appropriate number. If you created a document that is intended for sending electronic mail, the recipients will read it on their screens (perhaps in other cities or even other continents), and, if they wish to publish on their printers.
Even more beneficial to the boss, the manager's office in one of the southern U.S. states, to bring to the work described is not a local typist, even working at home, and Mexican, which can be for the same jobs pay less. In this case, the work will cost us less, even with the fees for telephone dialing. |