Flexi working hours

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

·         Survey of teleworker trends

o   43% admitted to watching TV or Movies while on the clock

o   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.

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Accountants Today

September/ October 2015