Everyone knows home working supports a more flexible environment, ensures greater productivity and delivers financial savings in office space and travel costs, as well as being more environmentally friendly. But if this is the case then why aren’t more companies maximising its potential?

Home working is likely to become an integral part of business operations, with 78 per cent of staff stating they would prefer the ability to work from home, rather than a pay rise. It seems that offering home working could make good business sense for the business and its workforce.

The economic and operational benefits of home working can be very tempting to business. It allows companies to retain staff and expand without having to pay extra on new office space. Also, from an employee’s point of view, it overcomes troublesome and sometimes costly commutes, whilst the new flexible working technology still enables face-to-face contact without compromising human interaction.

More importantly, the traditional office is changing, as companies are starting to move away from working hours, fixed costs and long commutes, and heading towards people that work flexibly at less cost and more productivity.

Luckily in today’s work climate, there’s technology available that enable companies to set up home working policies into their business plan, which can ensure that employees are working to their full potential.

Find out more about flexible working technology at the Interchange Group.

As featured on it-director.com.