New Zealand’s teleworking community is growing slowly and still relatively low tech. It is expected to increase with the proliferation of broadband connections and formal telecommuting policies.From the New Zealand Herald
[Telework Consultant Bevis] England says a well established telework programme will typically deliver a business $300,000 per 100 employees per year in cost savings and benefits.
“Increasingly staff are demanding flexibility. That’s being driven by things like work-life balance. It’s also being driven by the newer generations that are entering the workforce. The result is that employers that don’t offer flexibility could lose staff.
“Where it costs between 100 and 250 per cent of salary to recruit staff, that’s a significant cost to a company. If you’ve got maybe 20 per cent of your workforce prepared to leave to get flexibility - and that figure is backed up by US research - then the cumulative cost to the enterprise could be a few million.”
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