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Nothing breeds adoption of TeleCommuting by employers
like success stories.
Your stories posted here will help make employment of the Work at Home Workforce business as usual -- bringing us closer to the day when an employer doesn't have to think twice about using a TeleCommuter for a job.
That day will not only make more jobs available for TeleCommuting job seekers, but increase the talent pool for employers.
So add your experiences to these in the Comments below, the more details, the more they'll influence others to follow suit.
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Already expanding into three new counties, Cannondale Financial's TeleCommuting program is allowing Unlimited Expansion Potential. TeleCommuting allows their employees to become highly familiar with the communities in which they work, while the systems in place provide ease of data submission to complete business transactions. The firm is able to pay a higher commission to its brokers instead of the standard because telecommuting reduces fixed overhead expenses. Greater workplace flexibility and compensation enable the company to attract and retain loyal, highly experienced employees.
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Cisco's Internet Business Services Group has generated an estimated annual savings of $277 million in productivity by allowing employees to TeleCommute. A company survey shows Cisco employees spend about 63 percent of their time communicating and collaborating. 40 percent of Cisco employees are not located in the same city as their manager. Approximately 69 percent of the employees surveyed cited higher productivity when working remote, and 75 percent of those surveyed said the timeliness of their work improved. By telecommuting, 83 percent of employees said their ability to communicate and collaborate with co-workers was the same as, if not better than, it was when working on-site.
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Rona M has been TeleCommuting for two years now. She was hired just three days after starting her job search because of a strong call center background on her resume. She found a home based position as a Virtual Customer Service Representative. She provides customer service support for her company by connecting through the telephone and her computer. She highly recommends that if you have a background in a specialized area, seek out virtual opportunities in that field. Your experience will help you stand out as an applicant.
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More than 26 percent, of 9,000 Aetna employees nationwide, are TeleCommuters. Of the 7,450 employees in Connecticut, 15 percent are TeleCommuters. Approximately half of those TeleCommute full time. Aetna projects the number of TeleCommuters to increase to 36% by 2010. During its most recent annual employee survey, Aetna reported a higher retention rate, a higher employee satisfaction rate and increased productivity. Aetna also has a large number of casual TeleCommuters. On a snowstorm day, almost half of its Connecticut employees could TeleCommute because the Virtual Private Network can provide them with remote access to Aetna.
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Sharon looks like any other customer service rep...with one big exception. She handles claims for a major insurer from her house. Sharon worked in a busy call center until she got the chance to work part time in her own home, courtesy the marketing company Convergys. Convergys explains "it's a very fast growing segment for us, that we are growing. And we anticipate doubling or tripling in the next year or so." In these times of corporate cutbacks, thats refreshing news. Companies like Convergys say thanks to internet phone systems, they can save money farming out call center work to home based workers.
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Smith Brothers Insurance company started a telecommuting program in 2002 when management wanted to retain a valued employee who was moving to Texas. Once they got her set up, they wanted to offer the option to the rest of the professional staff. TeleCommuting has been successful for all departments (Commercial Lines, Personal Lines, Life, Employee Benefits, Accounting). The type of work being done off-site is exactly the same as the work that is done in the office—servicing clients, processing policies, developing proposals, submitting claims to carriers, email communication with clients and carriers, creating spreadsheets, etc.
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Theodore P of Parsippany, New Jersey TeleCommutes to Scottsdale, Arizona. Ted has been TeleCommuting for almost 20 years for several major companies. Most recently as vice president at Citation Technologies, a provider of document management solutions for global regulatory documents. Due to the passage of the Clean Air Act in 1990, He started working at home as an experiment. Employees in other departments who didn't have to be in the office also began telecommuting.
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Art & Logic develops complex custom software for clients throughout the world. They have been deeply committed to TeleCommuting for over 18 years. Ever since the company was founded in early 1991, the majority of their workforce has been TeleCommuting full-time. They currently have 65 developers spread throughout the U.S. and Canada. They serve clients like: Disney, Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, Apple Computer, Harcourt Education, Lexmark, 20th Century Fox, Columbia-Tristar, Roland, Yamaha, Bang & Olufsen, Nortel Networks.
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Fifteen years ago Ron's company turned their downtown office into a bunch of guest cubes. They were given laptops and cell phones and told to work from home. The internet allowed them to keep in touch. Now he submits his work electronically and talks a lot on the phone. Video conferencing, webcasts and webinars enable it all. Ron has helped introduce software marketing tools to companies like IBM, EDS, Rohm & Haas, Royal Caribbean, Sprint, Onstar and many others. His expertise includes Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and on line interactive video.
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Elizabeth L has been telecommuting for 19 years now and cannot ever imagine 'going' to work again. Telecommuting has allowed her to work and raise her children, while paying all the bills.
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Sandra T says: 'I have been working from home since 1999. In the very beginning, it was very frustrating, I was putting in a lot of free time and wasting energy with start-up companies. Many companies promised to pay commissions, or base salaries, and it never came to emerge and I never received any compensation. I was vacuumed into scams and very bad companies. That was all before I found tjobs.com, my personal saving grace. I joined tjobs initially in 2000. I found positions that I worked with for a year or two, and I have been with my current company for the past six years. This site gives you a bang for your buck, and the security of knowing that the positions you apply for have been well researched, and screened. You can be sure that bad companies or scam companies cannot live here!'
Sure, the above is an obvious plug we have posted for Tjobs, but experiences like this brought about using any site helping job seekers find only genuine work at home jobs -- and proving once again that employers are enjoying long-term accomplishments utilizing TeleCommuters -- is what's going to encourage more workers to join the Work at Home Workforce to supply more talent employers can count on.
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Share your TeleCommuting Successes in the Comments.
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