Telecommute Would Save Calgary $53B

Grant's Perspective on ... telecommuting to save travel costs and improve worker productivity.

 I read with interest about the Calgary Economic Development WORKshift initiative that encourages organizations to consider telecommuting. They have a white paper that claims that $53 billion a year would be saved if workers telecommuted twice a week.

A Calgary Herald article stated that a major impediment to telecommuting was that "... managers believe that they have to see people working in the office," said (Bob) Schulz, a professor at the U of C's Haskayne School of Business."

If the organization deployed personal videoconferencing systems (we can help with that) then employees can talk and see each other as well as share computer screens. The reluctant managers could be reassured that the employees are working! Many people are already comfortable collaborating with other people who are not located at the same office. 

As the report suggests: save money, create a smaller carbon footprint and foster productive and loyal employees.

Give it a try.

Grant