Virginia Tax Commissioner Touts Working At Home

From WSLS

Send your employees home so they can get some work done. It’s the way to go, said Virginia Tax Commissioner Janie Bowen, who oversees a teleworkforce of  616 — or 62 percent of the Department of Taxation’s nearly 1,000 statewide employees. “It turned out to be an incredibly good business decision,” she said. Bowen joins a growing number of top managers nationwide who have implemented a telecommuting, or work-at-home, program. 

“We estimated cost savings of $141,000, primarily the result of decreased turnover,” said Robin Mack, the tax department’s telework coordinator. The department analyzed the program for a year.