These initiatives are strategies to address weighty business issues like employee recruitment and retention.
Unemployment is near an all time low and labor shortages are forecasted to span the next decade.
As a result, employers are fiercely competing for talented employees and reexamining their HR policies and procedures. State government simply cannot afford to assume that their employees are expendable or easily replaced. If you consider that the cost of employee turnover is somewhere between 93 percent and 150 percent of an annual salary, and that State turnover is about twenty percent, you can see that the State is looking at a very costly business issue. It is a proven fact that workplace flexibility options, like telecommuting and compressed work weeks, are very effective business strategies in attracting and retaining employees. Employees everywhere are calling for more flexibility in where and when they may work.