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By Dennis McCafferty on 2010-06-09
Telecommuting—workers like it, the environment benefits from it, but
a lot of bosses still disdain it. In a tight economy, though, it is harder
than ever to argue with the bottom-line numbers. Allowing employees to work
outside the office provides a great cost savings for organizations,
according to new findings from Citrix Online and the Telework Research Network.
See also: Support for Telecommuting Lags Demand.
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- $400 billion is the estimated amount virtual work policies can save U.S.businesses every year.
- $124 billion of this projected savings figure would come from reduced officecosts.
- $46 billion in telecommuter-driven savings would be realized through loweremployee absenteeism.
- $31 billion per year would be saved through reduced employee turnover.
- 40 percent of American workers can work from home at least some of the time.
- 79 percent of those American workers would chose to do so if given theopportunity.
- $576,000 is what a 100-employee company would gain if it allowed employeesto work from home just half of the time.
- $235 billion is how much in productivity the U.S. economy would gain ifthose employers adopted “virtual work” policies.
- $362 is what each employee would save on gas per year viaworkshifting/telecommuting.
- $3840 is what each employee would allegedly save every year on parking,food, clothing.
- Two weeks is how much free time each employee would save by not commuting toan office.
- 53 million metric tons of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions would be eliminatedevery year—the equivalent of taking 9.6 million cars off the road.
- $2 billion is what U.S. taxpayers would save every year inhighway-maintenance costs.
- $11 billion is what taxpayers would save in costs due to traffic accidents.
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