Close the budget gap with telecommuting
June 17, 2010 by Valerie HelmbreckPosted in: Budgets and spending, IT employment, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, User behavior, telecommuting
IT shops that are still battling tight budgets or hiring freezes during this economic downturn could be looking for a way to get more done with an understaffed department. One solution:
Send workers home.
Telecommuters can handle 50% more work than their office-based peers before feeling their work-life balance is out of whack.
That’s the main finding of a recent Brigham Young University study of nearly 25,000 global IBM employees.
For office workers, work interferes with personal life after about 38 hours per week. Telecommuters with flex schedules can work up to 57 hours before there was a conflict.
Researchers note that most of the telecommuters studied had schedules that mixed telecommuting with time in the office.
Another caveat: “Telecommuting is really only beneficial for reducing work-life conflict when accompanied by flextime,” said the study’s author.
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