Telework just keeps growing. It is the basic fundamental shift changing our economy.
It is Shift #1 in Nine Shift.
At a conference keynote this month Michael Sylvan of Seattle told me how his sister got called into her Boeing supervisor's office 15 years ago and was told she needed to work more hours a week. She replied that she was more productive than other people in the office, and her results showed it. Soon after her supervisor started to evaluate workers by outcomes, not time.
Then six years ago she asked to work one day a week from home. She was initially refused. But today she works 3 days a week from home for Boeing. And Boeing is now mandating that certain employees work from home.
According to telework web site Suite Commute: Boeing finds that Telework helps to increase their employee’s productivity an average of 15-30% and, “The quality of the work done has improved even more!” (Boeing Case Study provided by Telecommute Connecticut)
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