Highly qualified or experienced staff may feel they cannot afford to return to work due to the high cost or lack of child care available. Additionally, the inflexibility that office bound work brings means that parents have extra burdens and pressures to ensure their children are cared for in their absence. Parents may also feel that they have to turn down overtime or a change in shift patterns due to the inflexibility that child care imposes. Child sickness or school holidays can also disturb an employees work pattern. This constant pressure and juggling act can finally force a key employee out of the work place.
Teleworking can be the answer for the right employee.
Whilst there still is an amount of juggling to be done with regards to work and child rearing, the pressures are lessened due to flexibility of working hours, as the office is always available. Overtime is also less of a threat. Traffic Congestion Increasing traffic congestion and the stress associated with the traveling in such a stressful environment day in, day out, can take its toll on an employee. Teleworking in this situation can therefore have a distinct advantage. An employee can spend hours each year in a traffic jam and several hours are also lost through late arrivals due to traffic problems.