| WORK AT HOME WORKFORCE Drawn from 14 Years Experience in Work at Home TeleCommuting • Telework • Remote • Offsite • Virtual • Flexjobs |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Big savings come home! This is the big one. The top motivator for employers to begin thinking TeleCommuters. Big and small companies have showed just how much real estate and overhead savings can be had by employing the Work at Home Workforce. ................................................................ To cut costs, Aetna sends Dover, Delaware workers home. Aetna is one of the major leaders in health care, dental, pharmacy, group life, and disability insurance, and employee benefits. Instead of letting workers go in Delaware, they're eliminating the cost of leasing an entire building. They're training their customer-service workers in TeleCommuting so most of its 169 staffers work from home when Aetna's lease on its office space ends. "This is not a move being made to reduce staff," said Aetna. "This is a move being made to reduce real estate expenses." ................................................................ Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona cut $27,000 from its budget in decreased rent and other workplace costs. The youth mentoring organization chose to allow some of its employees to TeleCommute. "Office space is expensive, and that's not where we want our money to go," said the vice president of marketing. ................................................................ CIGNA Corporate Services closed a building and discontinued space allocation for 11% of its workers. In 2002, CIGNA insurance's Corporate Services Department in Philadelphia was looking for more efficient ways to use real estate and reduce the cost of employee overhead. By 2005, 11% of CIGNA’s workforce worked full time from home. |
|
................................................................ Management Consulting Services company, George & Howe, was bursting at the seams with cramped quarters at their headquarters in Shelton, Connecticut. On the verge of signing a lease for additional office space that would have added significantly to overhead and reduced profitability, they contacted Telecommute Connecticut to put together a TeleCommuting program. It so improved the company’s use of existing office space, it eliminated the need for additional, costly office space and new workstations. Thousands of dollars saved in overhead translated to increased company profits. ................................................................ Add your cost-saving experiences in the Comments -- the saving stories here are impressive, but each employer out there feels theirs is a unique situation. Your story may be the one that really hits home.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
