Working from home is catching on in China according to the Maylaysia Star.
SANDY Liang is the mother of a four-year-old girl living in Guangzhou. Like many others in the city, she gets up at seven in the morning and drives her daughter to her kindergarten before she gets to work. But that’s where the similarity ends.
Unlike others, who sweat through hours of traffic jams from the school to work, Sandy enters her “private office” by eight, takes a quick shower, fixes herself a coffee, snuggles into a plush settee and starts working at home.
“Before I chose to work from home, I would usually have to spend two hours on traffic every day,” Liang says. “But now, I can freely arrange my own work schedule and work for hours without disruption.”
As the diversity leader of the human resources department of IBM’s Greater China Group, Liang’s job is to promote the development of IBM’s female employees, create equal opportunities for all kinds of talent, and further IBM’s flexible work programmes.
Every day, Liang makes calls to IBM’s departmental bosses and other employees across the Asia-Pacific region to liaise with them on her work and reports the progress to her boss, who is located in Beijing.
“I go back to office about once every month because I don’t want to lose touch with my colleagues in Guangzhou, although my work is not directly related to them,” Liang says.
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