Make it easier for employees to work from multiple locations, including satellite offices, home offices, or when traveling. Provide a highly secure environment and access to all the resources, applications, and files that your staff would have in the main office.
Cisco facilitates the creation of highly secure virtual workspaces in remote locations using a range of endpoints. Cisco technology offers built-in support for high-quality video, voice, social media, and data access that match what is available in corporate offices.
Benefits
- Integrate cross-functional responsibilities to simplify collaboration, no matter where people are.
- Locate branch offices where they are most needed to support customers or where talent pools of specific expertise exist.
- Reduce employee travel, real-estate costs, and greenhouse gas emissions.
- Improve talent by removing geographical restrictions in hiring.
- Create flexible versus dedicated workspaces for employees who are not regularly in the office.
- Increase executive reach and corporate alignment.
- Help maintain communications security.
Proof
- According to 65 percent of companies, telecommuters are more productive because of the flexibility to work when they have the most focus and/or control over the work environment. (Source: Ipsos)
- Forty-four percent of Cisco knowledge workers telecommute at least once a week. (Source: Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group [IBSG])
- Employees who telecommute once a week save Cisco $2,500 per employee annually. (Source: Cisco IBSG)
- One employee teleworking half-time can save a company about $10,000 per year and can save the employee up to $6,800 per year. (Source: Telework Research Network)
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