Flexiwork A Flop
Yahoo : CEO
Marissa Mayer recalled the 200 odd of Yahoo’s 12,000 employees working from
home back to the office in early 2013. Decision
was based on making business sense and strengthening innovation and
performance.
Citrix : Multinational
Software Company
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Survey of teleworker trends
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43% admitted to watching TV or Movies while on the
clock
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28% did not see anything wrong with cooking when
they are suppose no be working.
Companies tend to think that savings from skyping
or teleconferencing result if fewer work station, smaller office and reduced
electricity bill. Actually this concept
of working together but working apart requires more time and energy to ensure
communication are uniform and trickle down correctly.
The ‘mutual adjustment’ is absent from the work
environment because they are geographically-spread out and this greatly affects
productivity. The informal hallway
interactions, and the ability to just swivel your chair around to ask ‘What’d
you think of this?’ to your colleague, remain crucial to how knowledge, and
ideas move around in an organization.
Focus on flexiwork has always been on the
employee. Very few have debated how
telecommunicating will affect the employer.
Companies will have to decide whether telecommuting
and flexiwork works for them. While people
can leverage on technology to work productively from almost anywhere, the
decision to telecommute remains at the hands of the employee. Sometimes companies just need to take a step
back in order to move forward.
Shared from
Accountants Today
September/ October 2015
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