Although this alarm helped many companies discovered, the work at home employment has been on the market for several years and gradually has become an alternative to save money and give employees direct access to the company from anywhere: home, a hotel room or car, for example. The first to discover its advantages were multinational corporations, who avoided major investments in the upgrading of offices when entering new markets: the employee could perform their work from home , while maintaining an interaction with clients and colleagues, much like you would if you were in the home office. According to Ricardo Mateus, Product Specialist at Global Crossing Colombia, there is evidence that many employees are focused and perform better when they do their work from home . "The company can reduce costs by bringing together people who are geographically distant, to share information and applications in real time, thus avoiding the movement," he says.
Another advantage for businesses is being able to access a broader base of talent would not normally be interested in working for them because of their physical location. For Luis Alberto Alvarez, Citrix sales engineer, the home based jobs also provides the possibility of having a mobile workforce, and a sale or an important business for the company not lost because the head is away from their jobs and can not access to inside information. "The employee can access all the information needed with just an Internet connection and a laptop," he says. The benefits of ' working from home 'will also come to the employees, that may increase their autonomy and satisfaction regarding their tasks. "We have found that people who telecommute are more comfortable with their work, are less motivated to leave their company, have less stress, improve work-life balance and also get a good evaluation of their supervisors," says Alvarez.
Globalization has changed the perception and the companies realized that telecommuting increases productivity, although we are not as mature in the assimilation of the concept as the U.S., is dimensioned that profits are not just for the company but also for professional. Employees who perform their work remotely also save a lot of time in their movements and are trained to fulfill their responsibilities, even if they are in business. "A worker who is allowed to telework are typically happier because they have the ability to better balance their lives between work and private life, "says Gerardo Chaves, business development manager for collaboration technologies from Cisco Systems. Manda the broadband The key to all initiatives teleworking is to create a consistent experience: getting the partner does not miss a physical place to meet their responsibilities. Teleworkers should have access, with similar conditions to the same data applications, voice and video as they would be in the office. So the first thing to look for a company to bring forward an initiative of telework is to hire band internet channels wide, suitable for transmitting data at high speeds. "The technology solution must be scalable, to allow the growing number of users according to business needs. Ideally, the solution should be redundant, which can continue to provide service to remote employees in case of failure," argues Ricardo Mateus, Global Crossing Colombia.
This also applies to employees who must have broadband connections, allowing them to access applications and receive information at a rate similar to that which would use on the premises of the company . In this case, it is advisable to hire services that offer minimum speeds of 2 Megabits per second (Mbps). From the level of confidentiality in the information they use, some organizations may consider the use of Virtual Private Networks (VPN, for its acronym in English), a technology that uses the physical telecommunications infrastructure to transfer data securely and hidden. These raise the level of confidentiality and security with which information is transported by requiring unique user identification. of software and hardware New technologies have driven to work from home , they allow users to have exactly the same programs , files and resources that would have an office within the organization. Among these, application virtualization has consolidated in recent years.
Broadly speaking, this technology allows a person to enter and use productivity programs that are hosted on servers in the company, which could be anywhere on the planet. According to Luis Alberto Alvarez, Citrix, applications work exactly as if they were installed on the computer or smart phone of the person. In this sense there is also a desktop virtualization, where employees remotely access their office computers from any device. The teleworker will then see exactly the same desktop of your computer (with the same files and shortcuts, for example) and can use the programs you have installed on your hard drive. In this case, the company maintains control over the equipment and dramatically reduces operating costs. Along with these solutions and communication channels to transmit data, the computer comes into play which should have the person in the household and becomes in the way you access and manipulate information from the company. According to Alvaro Muñoz, manager of Lenovo ThinkPad in Colombia, it is necessary to have a computer that allows you to have everything in one environment: robust machine configuration that includes tools technical assistance to minimize the downtime caused by failures.
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