Monday, February 28, 2011

TELUS Talks Business - Flex Work Gone Wild

Research and analyst organizations around the world have given considerable focus to the topics of workforce mobility, distributed work and flexible workstyles.

 

Telus is a company playing an active role in industry research and in 2010 they sponsored a national study of the changing workforce dynamics (Harris Decima Flex Workstyles 2010.) The study was designed to look at the current state of the union in flexible work and get the pulse of employees and managers across the country on the benefits and shortcomings of flexible work options.


While I will use this one specific study to step you through the major findings, you should note that there is a substantive body of research that goes back 20 years that supports all of the general trends outlined below. So without further delay here are a few of the highlights:…

Although this series of articles is and data analysis has lots of interesting points, these two seemed the most significant to me:

• How does Flex Work stack up when employees/managers are considering a new career opportunity… Number 2 on the hit list right behind PAY…

• Almost 2/3rds of employees’ spend a significant time away from their desk but only 33% indicated that they have the tools to work effectively anywhere else…

I worked with Ian many years at Sun Microsystems, and he really is a pioneer in this field. And very good at looking at, and understanding, data and surveys.

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