{"id":694,"date":"2009-08-03T15:15:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T20:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/?p=694"},"modified":"2022-08-17T16:05:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T21:05:17","slug":"teleworking-can-be-a-win-win-proposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/teleworking-can-be-a-win-win-proposition\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make telecommuting a win for employers &#038; workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Richmond Times-Dispatch has an interesting article up about teleworking at the potential benefits to employers.<\/p>\n<p>In it, they showcase the Virginia Department of Taxation, who recently made a move to digitize their offices by sending certain employees home kitted out for telework.<\/p>\n<p>The move saved them over $130,000 annually in rent, utilities, and other costs, though it is not without its up-front caveats:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"article_font\">There is an initial outlay of money. Your company will have to outfit teleworkers with whatever is needed to perform their job at home, for example:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A personal computer, a laptop and docking station, a business phone line, shredder, fax, printer, copier, Internet service and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\">office supplies<\/a>. Also, it has to assure that its computer system has &#8220;layer after layer&#8221; of security and the ability to apply patches to protect from viruses, Bowen said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been a huge advocate of the work-from home model, and it&#8217;s nice to see companies embracing it as well. I feel that with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\">right gear<\/a>, there&#8217;s nothing you can&#8217;t do from home that you could do in an office.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously it&#8217;s not the ideal solution for every company, but in these tough economic times, it seems like a move more should consider before resorting to layoffs (or, heaven forbid, buying fewer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\">office supplies.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Richmond Times-Dispatch has an interesting article up about teleworking at the potential benefits to employers. In it, they showcase the Virginia Department of Taxation, who recently made a move to digitize their offices by sending certain employees home kitted out for telework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70,29,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-effective-management","category-efficiency","category-helpful-hints","category-resources"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7358,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/7358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}