Home working programmes lead not only to indirect benefits such as How can business-quality video help?
increased quality-of-life for employees and a reputation for environmental
stewardship. There can also be some very real savings for a company In order to feel comfortable implementing a home working
that implements a home/flexible working programme: program, managers with home-based employees need to know:
• A corporation can calculate the tonnes of CO2 that would have • What if I can’t reach someone when I need to?
been produced by the fuel burn caused by employee commuting • How will I maintain the personal connection with my co-
and use as metric to measure environmental improvement to workers?
support ISO14001 certification. • How do I know my employees are really working?
• Government initiatives that encourage home working • How much will it cost to equip my home workers?
• Tax credits • How reliable and secure are the technology tools that we need
• Home working at least one day per week raises job to home work?
satisfaction.
• In order to attract and retain high-calibre management staff and Videoconferencing addresses these concerns because it
knowledge-workers, it is now becoming essential for a company maintains the visual connection. It allows home workers to be a
to offer some form of home working benefits. Costs for recruiting part of collaborative teams and stay connected no matter where
and training are reduced by retaining satisfied employees. they are, avoiding the dip in morale and the loneliness factor that
• Particularly for companies with consultants, lawyers, accountants, can come from working alone.
and other engagement-based staff, having them travel for a half
day to spend an hour or two with a client is an unproductive Managers can maintain trust with their employees because
use of time. Having them participate in meetings without traveling their communications are face-to-face. Employees may be “out
allows them to serve other clients and be more cost-effective. of site” but they are not “out of sight.” Miscommunications are
• A company with employees joining meetings from home on a avoided, decisions are made more quickly, and productivity is
regular basis can save on the cost of office space. raised.
• In addition to daily commuting costs, fuel and travel costs for business
trips can be reduced with effective use of videoconferencing. Not Today’s videoconferencing solutions offer affordable “personal”
only can travel be reduced for intra-company meetings, a business- systems for individual workers, as well as integration with PCs
quality video solution can help an employee connect to external and 3G mobile phones. By implementing a business quality
customers and suppliers over video as well. video solution, these devices can be part of a centralised
• Setting up employees with technology at home helps an infrastructure and management system and take full advantage
organisation stay connected in the event of a natural disaster or of the features and functionality of the highest quality video
other crisis situation. technology available. n
In the year 2000, 30 percent of all organisations in Europe practiced • Network equipment for enterprise transport
home working on a regular basis. • Software-based management system for remote monitoring,
diagnosis, and ROI reporting
At an average commuting distance of 13.7 miles each way, and an • Firewall traversal technology to tie in external organisations, such
average mileage of 28.4 mpg, the commuting fuel consumption in as suppliers and customers
Europe is more than one gallon each day per employee. • A content server to record, archive and stream video meetings
• The highest level of encryption and authentication
In the UK, home worker numbers rose from 921,000 (4% of workers) • Seamless integration with Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and Nortel,
in 1997 to 1.8 million in 2005 (8 per cent of all workers). helping remote workers connect to VoIP networks, as well as
instant messaging and scheduling programs
The number of employed Americans who worked from home at least
one day each week grew from 41.3 million in 2003 to 44.4 million in The Tandberg Solution is helping customers of all types
2004, a 7.5% growth rate. to raise the quality of life for their employees and increase
productivity. We are committed to helping companies that
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with the appropriate systems and infrastructure for home working
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