Remote & mobile working clinches the deal

The option to have flexible and mobile working can be a deal breaker when choosing a new job according to 70 per cent of respondents to a commuter survey carried out by THUS plc.  An encouraging 72 per cent of employees said that their employers actively promote this style of working within their corporate cultures which demonstrates how UK companies are embracing flexible and mobile working.  However, this still means that 28 per cent of companies are not currently offering flexible and mobile working and risk losing out on the best candidates.

• LouiseE says:
• Flexible or mobile working is an excellent idea. It makes environmental sense as well as offer flexibility to employees and cut costs for the employer. But you are absolutely right that companies adopt remote working policies and implement the right technology. Working practices are at least as critical to success. So the bosses can’t relinquish all responsibility and just leave their remote workers to get on with it on their own. They need to adopt a new style, moving away from a directive style towards a more facilitating and supporting management approach. – so empower rather than control people. Using the latest technology available, you could potentially have up to 100 users linked together in a videoconference at a time, but how well those users collaborate will depend, not on the quality of the hardware, but on the quality of the communication.