Lessons learned from the Innovation Week

Telework, an option to consider


Teleworking, telecomuting literally refers to the development of a job in a regular manner in a different place from the usual work place. This usually refers to office work which requires a minimal interaction with the client and do not require the presence of the worker, resulting in the exploration of other options to perform the job. The most important thing to know is that it does not only have good things, in some cases the consequences may not be the best.

Among the advantages of this way of job, you can mention the opportunity that obtain many large companies to reduce costs, such as Internet, electricity, furniture, and others, and also allowing the worker to save, because payments such as : bus, food out of home, taxis, and others are something to forget about. Also in many cases they are allowed to choose their own working environment, reduce stress, have more free time, have a better performance than in the office, have flexible schedules and get better quality of life.

Even though this option has many advantages not everything is "rosy", in some cases many companies forget the problems caused by this way of job, both for the company and the employee, in first place loss of hierarchies, wages may exceed the total cost of full-time worker in the office, conflicts of loyalty or lower worker identification with the company; in the case of the worker it is normal to see a lack of work environment, sedentary lifestyle, family distractions, lack of privacy and unlimited schedules.

In short, this way of job is not for all types of companies, it is necessary to first study the company, identify its needs, do a research that could generate savings to the company using this work system and finally sit down with the pros and cons and take a decision that benefits the company and does not generate a negative impact on the worker.