Teleworking and Hoteling
November 3, 2008
What percentage of your employee population commutes to HQ on a daily basis? Do those employees need to be on campus to do their work? If some percentage of staff worked from home, how much money could be saved by slashing a portion of fixed real estate costs?
How is employee morale related to mandatory face-time policies? And finally, do your existing workspaces (i.e their design and layout) accomodate the needs of teleworking employees who need to meet up with colleagues when they are on campus?
In this presentation, we discuss the growing trend, underway among many top firms, towards reducing the size and amount of office holdings and fixed-desk arrangements for most employees. We talk about programs at Sun Microsystems, Intel, Cisco, IBM, Boeing, and Capiatl One, which are aimed at:
- cutting real estate costs
- improving employee morale through offering greater flexibility
- repurposing existing cube farms into more open, collaborative, cafe-like workspaces
- saving employees valuable time by reducing commute time
- saving employees money by cutting down on fuel use
- reducing your corporate carbon footprint by cutting back on how much your employees pollute the environment everyday commuting to work
This presentation will provide an outline for how and why to make the shift to a smarter and more flexible to organize and manage people and space.