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When Yahoo! decided to axe their work-from-home options for their employees, we talked about best practices for making work-from-home work. But we didn’t talk about the benefits of flexible work options for your employees.
Citrix Senior Vice President, Brett Caine, recently noted in a blog post that “today’s workplace is increasingly not about a specific place and time – it is about the work we do.” And doesn’t it make sense to pay employees for the work they actually do, not the amount of time they spent in your offices?
I work from home and I’m a big fan of the flexibility it offers me. I’m given tasks and as long as I complete them before deadline, it doesn’t matter when I do the work or where. I can work from a cafe in the morning, or from my kitchen table at night. If it had an internet connection, I could work from Mars. It’s the best work setup I’ve ever had. Citrix’s researchsays 83% of companies will use a mobile workstyle strategy by 2014. So what’s go great about flexible workstyles? Citrix crunched the numbers:
As we’ve covered on this site before, having happy employees often directly correlates to higher profits. With flexible work options, employers can reduce costs related to:
Do you allow your employees flexibility? How has it worked out for you? Let us know in the comments!
The post Work Is Not A Place: Why Flexible Work Options Work appeared first on Small Business Technology.
Ramon Ray, Editor & Technology Evangelist, Smallbiztechnology.com
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