Biz Tips – encourage telecommuting and flexible hours
By Ed | March 16th, 2008 | Category: Biz Admin, Biz Tips | No Comments »
Buy your hardest working employees computers for home if they don’t already have them
If you have staff who are willing to work an extra hour a day per week, you should provide them with a home computer. Once you get to three hours of work a week from home you’re at 150 hours a year “bonus” effort. Invest in equipment if the person is a workaholic or has an aptitude for promoting your business on blog comments or discussion forums – it’ll pay off over time in additional sales leads or contracts.
Often you’ll find that staff complete documents (or similar) far better at weekends, when they have the relaxed environment of working on them from home – the natural distractions of home life create “thinking breaks” where they can mentally revise and structure what they’re working on, without the pressure of feeling they must be seen to be working.
Allow your staff to work flexible hours. Commuting is a pain and is a waste of time for everyone. Let them start at 6am, or 11am, if it makes life easier for them, and you’ll cut their commute in half. I know from commuting into London years ago that changing my start or finish time by an hour used to save up to two hours commuting in each direction, and that at key times of the year it could make the journey 30-40 minutes instead of hours.
Ed
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