What is Cybercommuting?

Cybercommuting, often referred to as telecommuting, occurs where paid workers work away from their normal place of work, usually from home. Such workers can cyberwork all their work time, or on an occasional or ad-hoc basis. Most cyberwork takes place a day or two per week.

Organisations that have the greatest success with cyberwork tend to integrate cyberwork so that it fits within their existing legal, financial, administrative, human resources etc. infrastructure. They ensure that cyberwork is voluntary, subject to management discretion, operationally feasible and results in no additional costs (unless they can be recouped).

Cyberwork can save millions while helping to balance busy lifestyles, while reducing job related stress. As you will read further on, companies that have embraced Cyberwork achieve significant financial and other benefits.

Cyberwork organisations take full advantage of new technologies and new ways of working to focus on the work performed rather than on the location where it is performed.  They discover first hand how it increases productivity while reducing accommodation costs, layoffs and absenteeism (of all types including during disruption due to strikes floods, snow or ice storms etc).

As the information revolution reshapes our corporate and personal lives, moving us closer to a global society, Cyberwork also represents a major step towards working anywhere, anytime. As one of the key workplace transformers of the next decade, there is little doubt that it will inevitably and dramatically reshape how work is carried out throughout the world.

You can benefit from Cyberwork if:

• office accommodation represents a large proportion of your expenditures
• recruitment and retention of specialized is a key concern for your organization
• you are serious about reducing costs, and improving efficiency
• you want to maximize employee performance and productivity
• you are becoming more and more reliant on information technology
• you operate across several time zones or want to expand to global markets
• you want to increase hours of service to customers
• you spend a lot of time on overtime for office staff
• you want to improve morale and reduce stress
• you are serious about introducing lifestyle options for employees to help them balance their work with their personal/family lives