Remote Working
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Remote Working - Improve Productivity!
Making the most of change
Remote working, where employees work away from an office – at a remote site or at home, for example – is becoming more widespread as both technology and lifestyle considerations reshape the way we do business.
But remote working is more than just a change of location for staff: it requires a fundamental shift in thinking for managers. Coming to terms with the issues and challenges surrounding remote working is the first step to realising the potential benefits. These include:
- Environmental benefits
- Lower operating costs
- Increased efficiency and productivity
- Improved work/life balance
Within the next ten years, your business will be ‘doing'
business’ in different ways from today. Attracting and retaining skilled staff, reducing the costs of doing business and continually improving product and customer service capabilities will be key elements to maintaining and improving profi tability. The “old” way of getting the job done, in one place of work, will be replaced by more fl exible and responsive methods. In particular, more people will be working from outside the traditional office. We have remote working right now, in varying degrees. But this is just the beginning of a transformation that could redefi ne your organisation, management and actual ‘doing’ of the work.
What Does It Offer My Company?
Work won’t be a single location anymore
Increasingly, people are working on the move, at home and from places other than ‘the office’. The service
areas of motorways have become work stations; reports, PowerPoints and emails are being written on trains, planes, in hotel rooms and from the kitchen table late at night when the kids are in bed. Remote working technologies have made this possible, and prove that you don’t need to be in an offi ce to communicate anymore. Work will be tasks to be accomplished People will be working when they need to as opposed to where they were traditionally supposed to. They are already! Increasingly, focus is on delivering results and not about ‘being at your desk’. You can get the required results in a 20-hour week? Fine. Do your best work at home? Great. Everyone can already be the CEO of their time, and responsible for their own performance. Over the next ten years, there will be an increasing number of ‘virtual’ companies, often small community-
based enterprises without conventional business premises. Many people will become ‘multi-employed’, some working for as little as a day or two a week, in locations outside their organisations or home offi ces. People will be working apart – together Collaborative remote working is fast becoming the norm, rather than the exception. Many offi ces offer the ability to access fi les remotely, and management skills will shift from today’s input-driven approach to a focus on output and achievement, with a better integration between work and personal lives. But with this change it is important
managers become expert at remote team working.
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