Imagine our joy in reading “Home Sweet Office: Telecommute Good for Business, Employees, and Planet” in the latest issue of Wired.
“When gasoline costs $4 a gallon, companies shouldn’t just be doing all they can to expand telecommuting — they should be scrapping their offices entirely.”
“…time and again, studies have shown that telecommuters are every bit as engaged as their cubicle-bound brethren — and happier and more productive to boot.”
Huzzah!
In the past 12 months, Hello Viking’s employed 38 people across the U.S., and collaborated with 39 individual client contacts—entirely virtually. Everyone’s happy, and the work has been great. We’d like to verify Wired’s Mr. Know-It-All, Brendan I. Koerner, who posits, “Ditching the office could also provide businesses with a leg up in the scramble to recruit and retain talent. For starters, location would no longer limit a company’s employment pool.”
Too true.
We’ve seen the future, and we’re living it.
