Companies could save billions each year by getting staff to work from home

A new study has shown how businesses could save billions of pounds each year in transport costs by getting more employees to work from home using advanced technology such as high speed broadband.

High speed broadband, which has become available from a range of broadband providers over recent years, has enabled many consumers and businesses in the UK to make a change for the better. When it comes to business higher speed broadband access has resulted increased convenience, ease, and flexibility, and has helped businesses to enjoy greater success and increased profits.

A study was recently carried out by the research group YouGov and the results indicated that companies in the UK could save around thirty two billion a year in transport costs simply by getting more workers to work from home using broadband and other advanced technology. In addition to this there would also be green benefits, with fewer cars and vehicles on the road if more people were to work from home.

The YouGov survey showed that sixteen percent of those polled would be happy to take a pay cut and work from home, and forty two percent of those polled said that they would have no problem giving up their company car if it meant they could enjoy the convenience of working from home. Twenty five percent would give up on promotional prospects to enjoy this working life, and twenty seven percent would be happy to be demoted to be able to do this.

One industry official said: “If we all worked from home two days a week rather than five, two fifths of emissions would disappear and that’s a huge amount. But for that to happen your computer at home needs to run as quickly as your computer in the office and the only way that will happen is if we get fibre-optic rolled out throughout the country. The Government and BT are going to roll it out to towns but they are not going to roll it out in the countryside at the moment because it’s too expensive. So we have got to find clever ways of working with Government, Rural Development Agencies and other partners to develop broadband in the countryside.”

Source – Farming UK