Work Your Way - About Teleworking

Teleworking redefines workplaces into virtual workspaces

The collaborative tools now available have profoundly affected workplace culture and the way people communicate. The concept of teleworking is a tangible illustration of these changes - and it can help your organisation become more cost-efficient and productive, while creating opportunities for businesses to become more flexible in the way they structure themselves.

By definition, teleworking is simply the flexibility of working regularly from home or any place removed from the physical infrastructure of a traditional community gains via the environmental benefits that come from less commuting, reduced, congestion and lower energy consumption.

How can your organisation benefit?

At Cisco, we're helping business leaders enables people to better connect with each other - sharing ideas and collaborating on projects from any location at any time on any device. No matter how you want to structure and manage your business, we can help you Work Your Way:

• Productivity benefits:

  • • 45% of end users surveyed globally work an extra 2-3 hours per day because they can work remotely.
    
    
    • 1 in 10 employees indicate they are always online and work throughout their waking hours (Cisco Connected World Report, 2010).
• Attracting talent:

  • • 26% of young Australian professionals surveyed believe that being able to work remotely is a right rather than privilege in today's world.
    
    
    • 74% of university students expect to access their corporate network using their home computer. (Cisco Connected World Report, 2010).
• Reducing Operating Costs:

  • • At Cisco Australia and New Zealand, use of Cisco TelePresence and other collaboration technologies led to a 22% reduction in discretionary expenses in FY09.
• Office space:

  • • For every 3 FTE Teleworkers one desk can be discarded.
    
    
    • Teleworkers each save between 2.8 and 9.3 square metres versus traditional colleagues depending on their seniority (Access Economics, Impacts of Teleworking under the NBN, 2010 Report).
• Energy consumption:

  • • A study comparing energy consumption between Teleworkers and office workers found office workers consumed more than twice the energy. (Access Economics, Impacts of Teleworking under the NBN, 2010 Report).
    
    
    • Over the past three years, more than 333,000 meetings held globally using Cisco TelePresence have saved the company more than 136,000 metric tons of carbon emissions and US$253 million in travel costs.
• Salaries:

  • • 52% of Australians identified they would “sacrifice the extra salary for the opportunity to work wherever I am most productive and happiest” (Cisco Connected World Report 2011).
    
    
    • More than 6 in 10 global employees indicate flexibility is more important than extra salary. (Cisco Connected World Report 2010).
• Staff Retention:

  • • Teleworking accommodates changing employee circumstances (such as women returning to the workforce after maternity leave) instead of triggering employee departure.
    
    
    • This is key as the cost of replacing a lost employee can be as high as 15% their annual salary (Access Economics report 2010).

Whitepaper: "Cisco Bring Your Own Device"

Description:Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has become one of the most influential trends to touch each and every IT organisation. The term has come to define a megatrend occurring in IT that requires sweeping changes to the way devices are used in the workplace.
BYOD is about end users being able to use the computing and communication devices they choose to increase productivity and mobility. These can be devices purchased by the employer, the employee, or both. BYOD means any device, with any ownership, used anywhere.
This paper discusses how the trend will affect businesses, explores the challenges it creates for IT, and outlines the Cisco technologies that are part of the solution.