Mobile Working Business Benefits

 

Mobile working brings many business benefits

  • Reduces accommodation costs
  • Reduces office space
  • Lowers staff turnover levels resulting in lower recruitment costs and increased staff morale
  • Reduces car parking
  • Reduces office footprint  
  • Enables flexible working helping to achieve the work life balance
  • Increases productivity
  • Wins those talented employees
  • Reduces absence levels
  • Increase productivity through personal efficiency
  • Achieves Smarter commuting, reducing dead time from travelling
  • Increases job satisfaction
  • Reduces travel costs

The Work Foundation identify benefits that can be directly measured financially

 

Technology can help enable mobile working

Document Management with Windows SharePoint

  • Access your documents when you want, where you want
  • Share information with suppliers, customers and colleagues
  • Centralise projects and improve teamwork

IT’s rude not to share:

  • Improved project collaboration
  • Ease of document management
  • Guaranteed reliability

 

Business Email with Outlook Web Access (OWA)

  • Full functionality of your mailbox from any computer or laptop
  • Access to your contacts, calendar and tasks
  • Shared access to your colleagues contacts, calendars and tasks

Get more done:

  • Brings your organisation together with a centralised email solution
  • Easily schedule meetings and tasks with your colleagues

 

Mobile Email with BlackBerry and Windows Mobile

  • Email access with full email Outlook functionality
  • Advanced security through Windows Mobile or BlackBerry

Remove Dead Time:

  • Keeps your mobile workforce connected to email at all times
  • Increases productivity
  • Enhances customer satisfaction
  • Better job satisfaction

Policies and Practices

Here at Cobweb we have begun to put policies in place to help support mobile and home working which may help you get started:

- Home and Tele-Working Policy including Health and Safety

- Working from Home Policy

 

Read more from The Work Foundation; helping you to get the right work-life policies in place

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