Being out of the office can have many other positive effects with 57% of employees feeling much higher levels of morale (Hughson & Goodman, 1986) which in return can help increase productivity. There are many reasons that this increase in morale can be noticed, this includes anything from avoiding stress to greater autonomy (Dahlstrom, 2013). In an office setting there can be many distractions that can pull employees' attention away from work. This can make getting back to work difficult for most. Distractions can happen anywhere whether the employees are in the office or at home. There are some distractions that can be escaped by telecommunicating. Work distractions can decrease along with being able to disengage from office politics, including
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Telecommuting communication may be limited to writing and speech (Dahlstrom, 2013). This can make it extremely difficult to explain some things through email then to physically show other coworkers how to do things or to help with the project at hand. (Abdal- Wahab, 2007). If employees cannot communicate clearly it will increase the time and effort it takes to complete a project, if not lead to the failure of the task at hand entirely. Increase in time or a failure can cause profits to decrease, hurting how effective an organization can …show more content…
More questions will need to be asked about specifics such as what type of communication was decreased and why instead of a broader statement of informal communication is lacking (Dahlstrom, 2013). Future research needs to look more at time wasted and the focus of employees when working from home. Even when productivity may increase employees may be using company time for personal reasons. Examples of the new study should include how much more time is spent on breaks when not in the office, and how many times does the employee switch from work to personal items? A study with such questions can show an organization how much time could be wasted on personal items. With this additional research and with looking at the changing policies of companies that have a large number of employees telecommuting, an organization can learn from past mistakes or successes. Research shows only a piece of the picture so far with the additional research studies and using past statistics companies and decrease risk when implementing a telecommuting
Telecommuting communication may be limited to writing and speech (Dahlstrom, 2013). This can make it extremely difficult to explain some things through email then to physically show other coworkers how to do things or to help with the project at hand. (Abdal- Wahab, 2007). If employees cannot communicate clearly it will increase the time and effort it takes to complete a project, if not lead to the failure of the task at hand entirely. Increase in time or a failure can cause profits to decrease, hurting how effective an organization can …show more content…
More questions will need to be asked about specifics such as what type of communication was decreased and why instead of a broader statement of informal communication is lacking (Dahlstrom, 2013). Future research needs to look more at time wasted and the focus of employees when working from home. Even when productivity may increase employees may be using company time for personal reasons. Examples of the new study should include how much more time is spent on breaks when not in the office, and how many times does the employee switch from work to personal items? A study with such questions can show an organization how much time could be wasted on personal items. With this additional research and with looking at the changing policies of companies that have a large number of employees telecommuting, an organization can learn from past mistakes or successes. Research shows only a piece of the picture so far with the additional research studies and using past statistics companies and decrease risk when implementing a telecommuting