TelCoa’s Top 10 Reasons to Telework©
For the Employer and the Economy:
- Create Jobs, improve competitive advantage, and foster the ability to better compete in an increasingly globalized economy via Homeshoring/Homesourcing
- Reduce costs: real estate, facilities, direct labor, business travel, and other overhead expenses; notably liability and health insurance
- Improve recruiting and retention of skilled labor for enhanced productivity, creativity, and higher quality work product results
- Provide hope and economic opportunity (especially in rural areas) for service disabled veterans, others with disabilities, older workers who desire to remain in or reenter the workforce, and for part-time employment reducing reliance on benefit programs
For the Employee:
- Better balance family and work responsibilities, become self reliant, and participate more often in local activities
- Retain a larger percentage of earnings for a higher quality of life and less dependence on outdated over stressed institutions
For the Environment and Society:
- Lower carbon footprints, greenhouse gas emissions, and improve air and water quality
- Reduce dependence on foreign energy, especially petroleum
- Lessen highway congestion, reduce the need for capital intensive transportation ‘solutions’ (highway, rail, bus, parking garages, security, etc.), and lower ‘rush hour’ transit related accidents and fatalities
- Decrease the impact from or likelihood of natural disasters, pandemics, and terrorist events
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