Comments on: Remote working can help you go green and save costs http://www.saveenergy.co.za/2009/03/remote-working-can-help-you-go-green-and-save-costs/ Energy saving insight around your Information Technology Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:23:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Murray Legg http://www.saveenergy.co.za/2009/03/remote-working-can-help-you-go-green-and-save-costs/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Murray Legg Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:15:25 +0000 http://www.saveenergy.co.za/?p=61#comment-28 Remote working for our team has really helped in accessing skills retained particularly by moms, but have left the corporate rat-race to spend time with their families. By offering parents these facilities, you get a phenomenal skill set, and dont carry the monthly overhead of office space, and traffic-tempered employees. The downsides are the lack of knowledge sharing, and management time spent on the phone, as opposed to eyeballing the individuals on a personal level. Remote working for our team has really helped in accessing skills retained particularly by moms, but have left the corporate rat-race to spend time with their families. By offering parents these facilities, you get a phenomenal skill set, and dont carry the monthly overhead of office space, and traffic-tempered employees.

The downsides are the lack of knowledge sharing, and management time spent on the phone, as opposed to eyeballing the individuals on a personal level.

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