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Allowing employees to work at home helps businesses save money.
Converting traditional jobs to work at home contractor and job opportunities may be a veritable gold mine for many businesses.
Over 150 million dollars in benefit in one year alone. That's the financial benefit realized by AT&T for its work at home or teleworking program(s) in 2003. And each year more and more employees become work at home employees for AT&T.
Work at home programs of smaller companies may realize a much smaller but far more far-reaching and dramatic benefit.
According to AT&T, a work at home or telecommuting pioneer and has been conducting virtual employment/telecommuting research since 1992, there are many benefits to employers who offer work at home jobs, as well as numerous and important benefits to families and society as a whole. There are also benefits to AT&T, a global networking company, as more and more companies convert to networked virtual or work at home employment environments instead of traditional brick and mortar environments.
Among the main benefits to companies who allow their employees to telecommute or work at home are: increased productivity, reduced overhead costs, less turnover, happier employees and big advantages in recruiting. Ironically, companies who offer work at home opportunities to their employees and prospective employees, especially when recruiting stay at home moms and parents, find themselves with a huge advantage over competitors who do not allow their employees to telecommute, while at the same time reducing their overhead and hiring costs.
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Cost savings to employers who sponsor work at home employment opportunities for their employees:
- Huge benefits often resulting from increased productivity
- Reduction in relocation expenses
- Ability to hire from larger geographic area and not necessary to relocate candidates
- Recruiting advantages/Lower recruiting costs
- Ability to attract better candidates
- Increased productivity creates need for fewer employees
- Lower turnover/reduced training costs
- Lower turnover/lower recruiting costs
- Reduction in office space
- Reduction in general office expenses
- Lower equipment maintenance costs
- Potential cost savings in employee benefits
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Companies that allow their employees to work at home on computer networks instead of brick and mortar offices realize many other benefits as well. Companies who allow employees to telecommute or offer work at home jobs can recruit from virtually anywhere and have no relocation costs associated with employees who do not live within commuting distance to a traditional brick and mortar office. Additionally, companies can recruit employees who are not willing to relocate.
As we somberly remember the events of September 11, 2001 during which whole companies were wiped out because they were centrally located, it is noteworthy that companies who are not centrally located and who employ a full or partially home-based work at home workforce are safer from such types of attacks. Similarly one must consider the extreme and destructive losses in productivity in the America Media offices in Florida during their anthrax attack when the entire building had to be closed for many days. Similar interruptions in productivity occurred in government and other buildings and could occur virtually anytime in any building in America. From this perspective companies and employees are far safer and potentially far more productive if they work at home.
Increased productivity. Happier employees. Major reductions of the cost of operating your business. The benefits to allowing employees to work at home are too large to ignore any longer.
Copyright 2004 Workathome-Search.com
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