Why Hire Telecommuting and Flex Workers?

TELECOMMUTING AND FLEX WORK CAN WORK IN COMPANIES OF ALL SIZES: Hiring can be expensive when you are constantly advertising and filling positions, so getting the right talent for your needs sometimes only requires a little more flexibility for great returns on productivity and more!

 

Companies on a fixed budget can attract more talent by offering flex hours and telecommuting to staff positions they might not need a full time resource for. Companies of all sizes can improve retention and increase value by retaining key employees with flex work and telecommuting options..
A Business and Legal Resources survey indicated that 50% of employer respondees are now offering telecommuting in some form, and that 2/3 of them have had telework/flex work programs for 3 or more years.  Why not?  It is part of the secret recipe for retention and for productive happy employees.  In some cases perhaps you dont need to replace a person with the right flexibility and clear work requirements.  A U.K. Cranfield School of Management found that flex hour workers tended towards more focus work then their counterparts with fixed office hours. 

Case Study: Sun Microsystems 1997 "Open Work" Work From Home Program:

• Saved the company nearly $68 million in real estate costs.
• $24 million saved annually from thin client architecture (systems admin & energy costs).
• Office equipment energy consumption rate at a Sun office was two times that of home office equipment energy consumption, from approximately 64 watts per day at home to 130 watts per day at a Sun office.
• By eliminating commuting just 2.1 days per week, an employee reduces energy used for work by 5,400 Kilowatt hours/year. The average home uses 1000 KWh per month in energy.
• Employees saved more than $1,700 per year in gasoline and wear and tear on their vehicles by working at home 2.1 days a week.
• Sun's Open Work program prevented 29,000 tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere.
• By eliminating commuting just 2.1 days per week, an employee reduces energy used for work by 5,400 Kilowatt hours/year. The average home uses 1000 KWh per month in energy.  *

How to get started?  It saves money.. Identify the key performance attributes the candidate must possess, and what they must produce..  A well written job description with flexibility for the right candidate can present the type of talent you might not get otherwise, however not all people are suited for telecommuting work, so your hiring plan must be flexible enough to allow this talent to emerge. 

 

• Attributes of a Telecommuting Professional
• Telecommuting in the News
• Profiles of Companies who are Telecommuting

 

Working with a recruiting partner can help you identify the right talent for your needs from a wider talent pool, without having to screen a number of lesser qualified people who are only looking for telecommuting opportunities and might not be a fit to your needs. It requires a recruiter with expertise in helping you identify the right work from home opportunity.. If your worker can telecommute, 1 day, 3 days, or work from home full time for the right fit, it expands your ability to get the right match to your needs, as some workers, who might not want to leave their loved ones to move cross country, might be JUST the right person for your needs.  

 

HFCN GLOBAL ( Helping Friends LLC) has a huge base of top achieving experienced telecommuting professionals in Administration, Sales, Marketing, IT, Call Center Support, Accounting, and Finance.  We would be happy to help you to hire quality people for your regular or flexible work needs.  We can also engage surveys to help you establishe screening criteria for your work for home staff in your existing workforce, or to create a new mobile/work from home workforce. We are your partner in regular and "green" business Telecommuting employment.

* Thanks Janet Ferguson