As new hires join the company and are assigned spaces on the main floors, other employees and teams will be encouraged to move to the telework center and their homes. By teleworking on opposite days, more contractors and employees will be able to share cubicles on the main floors. ConneXt has established a company culture that supports telework and engages teleworkers via planned and impromptu conference calls, email, and regular office visits. Teleworkers applaud the company's decision to provide them with laptops, pagers, additional telephone lines, and a cell phone rebate, to pay for business calls, and to discuss what else would make them most effective. ConneXt executives use flextime and telework Many of the ConneXt Executive Team members, including President and CEO Bismuth and Vice President of Human Resources Jill Maguire-Ward work from home on almost a daily basis in the mornings.
Mornings are the best time to catch up on emails and miss the early morning commute.
After a three-month trial that included large projects with impossible deadlines, Isgrig says he has become an advocate so long as selection criteria are met, such as a proper home environment and independent work habits. In fact, I'm delighted with the results. Telework fits software development cycles Software Development Manager John Fleming and his 12-person project team work at home one to five days a week. They are in the office more during the design and debugging phases of a software project. At that point, it makes more sense to go home, get in front of our computers and work without distractions.