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Technology allows employers and staff to enjoy benefits of homeworking
Homeworking offers unique benefits to both employees and employers, but only when the appropriate technology is "properly adopted", a leading professional group has stated.
According to the Telework Association, recent advances made in the field of online communications systems as well as improved security systems designed to protect company's systems from external sources, have served to make remote-working a viable and attractive business practice for growing numbers of organisations.
Brian Higton, chairman of the body, explained: "Homeworking is relatively unique in that when properly adopted, it can benefit both employer and employee.
"For the employer [it offers] reduced office space requirements and attendant reductions in fixed operating costs, more flexibility in the deployment of labour and improved staff loyalty and retention as staff value being given the opportunity to work from home."
The comments come soon after Flexibility reported that homeworking grew by nine per cent in 1997, ten per cent in 2001 and 11 per cent in 2005, with this trend set to carry on for some time.
According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's 2007 report into the practice, improved recruitment prospects and higher staff retention rates are the two main reasons behind businesses offering flexible working.
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