American employers provide lots of benefits to their workers, but helping them to cope with the rising cost of driving to work hasn't been one of them, based on the results of an online poll at HR.BLR.com.
With the growing use of computers in the workplace and at home, more employees are spending more time in front of the computer monitor, which increases the possibility of eyestrain. Here are 10 tips for preventing it.
As the economy continues to inch toward recovery, more employers are targeting
flexible work schedules, telecommuting, and job sharing for reductions, USA
Today reports.
As Labor Day approaches and the country prepares to celebrate the advancements of the American worker over the last 120 years, a national study shows a new era in the American workplace, with only 17 percent of respondents untouched by work at a distance.
For most HR managers, the benefits from switching more workers to telecommuting status are obvious. Biggest payoffs: fewer missed days of work, better retention, missing half-days instead of whole days when they have an unavoidable personal chore (Source: A new study by the International Telework Association and Council - ITAC).
The WDS Company calls it the WDS Virtual Office or Teleworking Program, and it has been an integral part of the company since its launch in 1995. It now involves fully half of WDSs 250 employees (a few full time, the majority occasionally).
Technologically savvy companies do better in recruitment and retention of workers. That's what a study by Ceridian Employer Services, a Minneapolis-based provider of outsourced payroll and employer-services says. Their results show that 50% of employees say that working in virtual teams and telecommuting attracted them to join a company. And 66% said these work methods gave them an "excellent" reason to stay with an organization.
