{"id":1712,"date":"2008-08-20T09:32:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T14:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/08\/telecommuter-friendly-companies\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T08:54:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T13:54:46","slug":"telecommuter-friendly-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/08\/telecommuter-friendly-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Telecommuter-Friendly Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months ago I posted<\/a> on the rising trend of telecommuting.\u00a0 The percent of companies that allow working from home has gone up dramatically over the past few years.\u00a0 From our experience, that trend has been accelerating in just the past few months.\u00a0 More companies are offering salespeople the option to work form home a few days a month once they are through their on-ramping process.\u00a0 We are also being asked by sales candidates early in the process if telecommuting is an option.<\/p>\n

Not all companies and positions have that flexibility, but that shouldn’t preclude you from looking for alternatives.\u00a0\u00a0A recent article from the Workforce Management newsletter<\/a>\u00a0lists 7 companies that have done something about the concern of rising costs of transportation by offering help to their employees.\u00a0 From giving them bus passes to cash rebates for buying hybrid vehicles to running shuttle services, these\u00a0are just a few of the examples of what\u00a0some companies are doing.\u00a0 Some of the companies are large, like Microsoft, but here is what one small, 75\u00a0employee company is doing:<\/p>\n

STS Telecom: <\/strong>The Cooper City, Florida-based provider of conventional and hosted Voice over Internet Protocol phone service reimburses employees for a portion of their daily commute\u2014about $2 for each gallon of gas they use. In addition, the 75-employee company offers $250 toward the lease or purchase of a gas-electric hybrid car.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Let me give another example of a local, mid-sized company located here in Minnesota.\u00a0 My sons bought a Mazda RX7 earlier this summer from a friend that lives in Southern Minnesota.\u00a0 The previous owner decided to get rid of the car for several reasons.\u00a0 First he & his wife were expecting their first child and a 2-seat sports car is not\u00a0ideal for a family of 3.\u00a0 The second reason was that the car only gets around 20 to 25 miles per gallon which isn’t bad, but there are a lot of cars available\u00a0with better gas mileage.\u00a0 But the final reason that motivated him to sell the car was the fact that his company was giving rebates to employees that bought hybrid or high\u00a0miles per gallon vehicles.<\/p>\n
You probably know that we are big proponents of telecommuting options for salespeople.\u00a0 We speak to companies regularly that have not made any changes to help out with this hot topic.\u00a0 Some of the questions to consider:<\/p>\n
What jobs can you have telecommute on a full or part-time basis?
\nWhat is keeping you from allowing employees to telecommute?
\nWhat can you do to help out\u00a0those that cannot telecommute?<\/p>\n
This topic is going to become more prevalent, not less, in the near future.\u00a0 If you plan to hire any salespeople in the near future, be prepared to discuss this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A few months ago I posted on the rising trend of telecommuting.\u00a0 The percent of companies that allow working from home has gone up dramatically over the past few years.\u00a0 From our experience, that trend has been accelerating in just the past few months.\u00a0 More companies are offering salespeople the option to work form home a few days a month once they are through their on-ramping process.\u00a0 We are also being asked by sales candidates early in the process if telecommuting is an option. Not all companies and positions have that flexibility, but that shouldn’t preclude you from looking for alternatives.\u00a0\u00a0A recent article from the Workforce Management newsletter\u00a0lists 7 companies… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,5,24],"tags":[1762,969,67,968],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-rC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}