The Indiana Family and Social Service Administration have incurred an increased workload due to a change in the policy manual caused from a lawsuit. Employees are required to work overtime to complete weekly goals. With the increased workload and overtime that is performed the utility expenses and employee’s pay have increased. This is causing negative impact on the budget. This change has also decreased personal time for employees and morale in the agency has decreased. With the low morale in the work environment employee productivity has decreased also. Management wants to create the opportunity for employees to work from home. By allowing employees to work from home will decrease expenses for the agency and increase morale and productivity for employees. The FSSA is afraid that retaining employees in a supervised building will lead to an unsatisfied work environment and employees will abandon their positions. It would cost the agency less to rearrange the work environment than to train and replace new staff to fill those positions. The FSSA wants to incorporate telework into the agency to maximize employee morale and productivity and minimize agency expenses.…
In our modern world the amount of people who work at home fairly rise. How could this condition influence on the quality of their work? I think the main benefit of this way is not spending time on transport. And the main difficulty, in my opinion, is in free schedule which you get when staying at home, because you can spend time ineffectively.…
Additionally, the e-learning program costs less than half of what the traditional training process costs. It even better prepares employees for the job because the quality of the training is higher and individuals can complete the training at their own pace. Moreover, work@home employees feel that Putnam has made a sizeable investment in them, and feeling is supported by high productivity rates and decreased turnover. The turnover rate among work@home employees is around 8% which is significantly lower than the Putnam average of 30%. By training employees for less and retaining them for longer, Putnam decreases both recruiting and training costs by a significant margin. Furthermore, the work@home program allows Putnam to expand their business into new areas without having to invest in additional real estate. And because the majority of these work@home employees are from rural areas where the cost of living is lower than locations near Putnam’s office facilities, Putnam can get away with paying work@home employees less than their in-facility counterparts. All these factors contribute to the low cost advantage that the work@home program creates.…
7. Companies have found that at-home workers are often more productive than those who come to the office.…
It’s 5:45 in the morning and you are waking up to the annoying sound of your alarm clock going off. You are fighting yourself just to get out of bed to drive to work. You may have to drive 5 days out of the week and sometimes 6 or 7 if you are working overtime. Then you arrive at work only to sit at a desk for 8 hours and complete your specified work tasks that may seem never ending. For your commute home you are sitting in traffic for another 30 minutes to an hour building up more frustration. Keeping the same daily routine and watching the same black and white walls Monday through Friday can have its pitfalls. How can you change your daily routine with technology today? According to www.insight-ts.com, “A growing consideration for many companies centers on their ability to add employees to their staff while allowing them to work from home. There is a growing segment of today’s workforce that is highly-skilled and prefers to work from home. There are many professionals who find the “quietness” of a home office as a very productive environment. Businesses are also finding that many job functions work well from home-based offices…
The impact of technology on individuals and organizations is widespread, and has resulted in the capability to do many jobs from anywhere at any time. When teleworkers work from their homes, and they use information and communication technology (ICT) to keep in touch with centralized work locations, they are frequently referred to as “home-based” teleworkers. An occupation exists necessarily depends on its characteristics and advantages. In this article, authors focused on the relations between personality and motivational traits…
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- The most common reason for working at home, 25% said that it was a job requirement or they had no choice, 23% said it provide better working condition, 18% said that home was their usual place of work and 25% of female self-employed workers with children aged 12 and under at home said they…
effect”(Betcherman, et al, 1998, p.19). It is now evident to see that this new technology forces workers to obtain new skills to be able to provide for their employer in an efficient way.…
Research has shown that home based employees generally increased productivity by 13 percent over office based workers and staff attrition by half. This creates thousands of dollars in savings for the employers. Research has shown that telecommuting also reduces absenteeism, increases productivity, reduces attrition and saves the employer on average $8,000 per employee (Goodman, 2013). It is obviously easy to understand how increased productivity, savings or reducing attrition is not so black and white. Each time an employee has to be replaced there are a myriad of costs involved from recruiting and training to additional payroll taxes for new employees. Therefore, the ability to increase productivity and retain those same employees is a double win for the…
The idea of working from your home to balance work and life events attract many individuals who crave the idea of being in an environment where they comfortable of their surroundings, have limited distractions from co-workers and can focus on their work. The word “telework” emphasized the concept of work activities in which a worker regularly performs officially assigned responsibilities at home or other sites geographically convenient to the residence of the employee (Vega and Anderson, 2015). Some noted benefits to telecommuting include lower absence days, improved morale, reduced overhead, attraction of a wider talent pool, more schedule flexibility, and fewer distractions…
In every industry, computers have left their mark on the workplace, changing the way people do their jobs. They make trusty assistants, helping workers to manage information more effectively and automate repetitive tasks. They connect employees across the office or across the globe, and they connect businesses with customers in the same way. They standardize the routines of work, sometimes trading individuality for efficiency. They even transform the idea of the workplace itself into a virtual structure that enables employees to work remotely. In a perfect world common sense and a solid work ethic would keep employees on task throughout the…
With the growth of new technology and the Internet, many people prefer to take their work home with them. This becomes a problem when separating the work life from the home life. Kelton Research found that 65% of U.S. consumers are spending more time with their computers than with their significant others (“8 in 10”). This statistic is far too high. Technology cannot, and should not, replace human interaction. What does this do to the face to face connection we have with our families; or in that matter, with people in general? Many people find themselves using the computer for a good portion of their day and admit that their computer use is as much a part of their daily routine as going to the bathroom or sleeping. I fear that as the years progress and technology follows its current exponential growth, this number will continue to rise, and personal interaction will be lost.…
When people do leave their homes to go to work, a lot of them are going to jobs where they sit behind computers all day. Even students staring in elementary school do a lot of school work, tests, and school projects behind a computer or tablet now. Many college students are picking careers to do with technology and can even get their education all online.…
An interesting quality of life issue that affects more and more people personally is the ability to work from home. Before the advent of information systems most people used to have a regular day job 8.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m., five days a week in a typical office setting in our society. But with the introduction of information systems people can work seven days a week, all hours of the day, at home and on their wayse specially the management staff in a company. Also, the quality of life issues would be…