Intranet Benchmarking Forum - Private Workshop

1. The Business Case for:
Workplace Mobility
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2. About
 500 Case Studies
 Telework Savings Calculators™
 US, UK and Canada
 Cited in:
 Harvard Business Review,
 Washington Post
 Wall Street Journal . . .
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3. Who Says?
 GSA / Booz Allen Study
 Reason Foundation
 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
 US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
 US Environmental Protection Agency
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4. Everyone Wins
 Employer
 Employee
 Community
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5. Employer Savings
 Productivity
 Real Estate
 Absenteeism
 Turnover
 . . . and more
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6. PRODUCTIVITY?
Re served
kr, Some Rights
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7. PRODUCTIVITY
 Fewer Interruptions
 More Effective Time Management
 Empowerment
 Flexible Hours
 More Hours
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8. Productivity Savings
Save $4,000 to $16,000 /year
Assumes: Average salary = $43,264, Productivity increase =
15% to 55%, half time telework
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9. Facilities
 Desk sharing
 Office hoteling
 Space reduction
 Subleases
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10. Facilities Savings Examples
 Deloitte: 10% staff increase, 42%
decline in real estate
 Sun: 19,000 teleworkers saved $96
million (RE, Electricity, IT)
 Oracle BV: 248 s.f. pp to 140 s.f.
 McKesson: $2 million/year
 U.S. Patent Office: $11 million/year
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11. Facilities Savings
Assuming:
 $10,000 / office /
employee
 25% reduction with half
time telework
Save $2,500 per
teleworker / year
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12. Absenteeism
 Exposure
 Stress
 Continue working
 Appointments
 Exercise
 Happiness
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13. Absenteeism Savings
Assuming:
 3.6 days reduction / year
 $500/day savings
Save $1,900 per teleworker / year
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14. Turnover
CitrixOnline
phics by
Infogra
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15. This
is not
your
Photo Credit: Ed Yourdon (Flickr CC License)
father’s
workforce
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16. Here’s a list of our demands . . .
You have until 5PM
Infographics by CitrixOnline
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17. Turnover Savings
 #1 Non-Financial Benefit
 Expands Talent Pool
Assumes:
Turnover cost = 138%
Average quit rate = 20.4%
15% reduction
$3,350 per teleworker/year
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18. Tell ‘em what they’ve
won Jane!
$12 Million
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19. And More . . .
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20. But what about costs?
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U .S. O
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21. Employees save too:
 Time
 Money
 Sanity
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22. And that means . . .
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23. And More
 Eldercare
 Office gifts
 Car insurance
 Shopping sprees
 Housing
 Taxes
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24. Sustainability
National Impact
 275M Barrels of oil
 50M tons of GHG
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25. The Bottom Line

26. The Bottom Line

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28. It s time we made the road less
traveled the way to work! ™
Kate Lister
Telework Research Network
TeleworkResearchNetwork.com
Kate@TeleworkResearchNetwork
760-703-0377 (Left Coast Time)
We build the business case for workplace flexibility.
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