...They’re all great place to work. A least according to a recent study by Microsoft on the productivity impacts of telecommuting (as I happen to be recently speaking of Microsoft and ‘Great Places to Work)’ … “ Sixty percent of respondents to the Microsoft Telework survey — conducted among 3,600...
A recent poll in the UK by SimplyHired showed that more staff wanted ‘work/life balance’ (36%) over a ‘competitive salary’ (31%). Also, the #1 vote getter was a ‘a job they love’ at 81% while a ‘pay raise or promotion’ only garnered 10%. The findings reinforce the business benefits of Dynamic Working...
One of the major areas of benefit from Dynamic Working, along with saving money and helping the environment , is boosting staff welfare . The most direct benefits involve increased satisfaction , work/life balance , and reduced time lost to commuting . All of these benefits should lead to healthier...
Accenture and Vodafone collaborated on a report titled ‘ Carbon Connections’ which looked at a range of business strategies for carbon reduction. Given Vodafone’s mobility focus, the report naturally centred on a number of distributed and remote working scenarios... Dematerialisation – replacing physical...
The benefits to Dynamic Work are economic, ecological and social. One area of business that affects all three is transportation. Commuting and business travel cost money, cost carbon (and other environmental impacts) and cost time away from family. Showing both the scale and connection of the costs of...
Microsoft has been pushing the boundaries of flexible working for years now obviously leaning heavily on the empowerment that mobile, productivity and collaboration software enable. Last year I highlighted some of the measures that the UK office had introduced which led to it being selected as Mother...
The Transport Studies Unit at the University of Oxford has released a study on “ The Costs of Transport on the Environment – The Role of Teleworking in Reducing Carbon Emissions ” which looks comprehensively at empirical macro-economic data on workers and commuting. Its conclusions include... · Empirical...
One of the observations Edelman’s Robert Phillips notes is the segmentation into different workstyles. He speaks of the ‘podists’ and the ‘benchists’ describing sub-groups that have formed based on personal preferences for where and how they work. The design firm Gensler who engineered the Edelman London...
Microsoft UK recently released a study done by The Future Laboratory’ called ‘ Microsoft: Work and Mobile Cities’ which looked at how the trend in mobile and remote working would impact the actual landscape around us. Bill Gates used to quote the line ‘people always over estimate...
Some compelling numbers on the economic imperative for dynamic work in the imposing economic conditions from insurance company RSA highlighted by Katie Ledger in her Portfolio Working blog . “When asked about the prospects for their businesses during this economic downturn, one third (34%) of respondents...
Good piece from MSNBC on telecommuting subtitled ‘ Employers reconsider traditional in-the-office work week’ looking at the economic drivers to more flexible work. “Some employers are reconsidering the traditional five-days-in-the-office pattern as the national average price for a gallon of gas hovers...