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What Your Employees Would Give Up to Telecommute

By Dennis McCafferty on 2012-02-24


OK, we know from prior features that telecommuting can be a touchy topic. Employees want it. Even the highest levels of company leadership say they support it. Yet, many hands-on managers have difficulty transitioning from a traditional view about where employees are supposed to work. (That would be in an office, of course.) A recent survey from TeamViewer, however, sheds new light upon the wealth of interest among Americans in working from home. For starters, many strongly believe this arrangement would boost productivity. And survey participants reveal the extent of sacrifices they’d be willing to make to do so. (Fair warning: Nothing -- not even the sanctity of a marriage -- is off the table.) “While the results of this survey may seem amusing, these findings show that telecommuting will be a force to be reckoned with in the future,” says Holger Felgner, general manager at TeamViewer. TeamViewer develops and distributes solutions for online communication and collaboration -- such as online meeting software -- in more than 30 languages. More than 2,500 American adults took part in the research, which was conducted by Harris Interactive. Here are 10 highlights:

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62% of survey respondents say more people want the option to telecommute than ever before.

53% of survey participants say smartphones and tablets are increasing the use of telecommuting.

32% of survey respondents say they’d be “more” or “much more” productive if they telecommuted.

34% of Americans would give up social media to telecommute.

30% of survey participants say they’d give up texting if they could work from home.

29% of survey respondents say they’d give up chocolate to telecommute.

25% of Americans say they’d give up their smartphones to telecommute.

20% of survey participants say they’d give up shopping if they could work from home.

17% of survey respondents say they’d give up a salary increase to telecommute.

15% of Americans say they’d give up half of their vacation days if they could work from home.

12% of survey participants would give up daily showers to telecommute.

5% of Americans admit they’d divorce their spouse in order to work from home.

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