According to a recent survey by O2, 77% of employers encourage staff to work flexibly (including offsite). However, only 19% of employees corroborate this statistic, suggesting that flexible working provisions are not well advertised to staff.
The O2 survey comes in the same week that internet giant Yahoo! cancelled all remote working provisions, insisting that all staff attend their nearest office each day, where previously Yahoo! had actively encouraged remote working as part of many employees’ benefit packages.
These two news stories are disappointing to believers in remote working, and are causing many businesses to miss out on the benefits of such a system. Most staff believe that flexible working not only allows for a better work-life balance, which in turn raises morale, but also actually helps them be more productive too- all of which makes the missed opportunity of remote working all the more surprising. As O2 point out, the London Olympic Games encouraged many businesses to implement flexible working policies, but just 6 months later many of those plans have been abandoned.
Broadband Cloud Solutions offer a number of tools and systems which can be put to use by more forward-thinking companies eager to leverage the benefits of flexible working. Cloud-based file storage and hosted desktop solutions allow staff to access corporate data from anywhere, whilst hosted VoIP telecoms allow employees to make and receive work calls regardless of their location.
To find out how these tools can be put to good use by your business, give the Broadband Cloud Solutions team a call today on 0141 585 6363.
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