Scanner A home office will usually have significantly less space available for storage of documents than corporate offices. Thus scanning documents and storing them electronically may have some appeal for the home office. An alternative is the multi-purpose device that I mentioned earlier. Access to the Internet and allowing for that employee to have a means of reaching the corporate intranet is critical. For the sake of definition, in this context, the corporate intranet is any network or other electronic medium that is used solely within your organization to store and exchange corporate information and to communicate with fellow employees.
Speed is always an issue with data communication.
Access from the home using the higher speed ISDN or even cable modem to the Internet is now being offered by many cable systems around the country and is affordable for the remote worker. Video conferencing People like seeing other people when communicating. It can give a home office employee a greater sense of belonging. I will discuss this technology in depth in a future column. Separate voice phone line, voice mail and call forwarding Having an employee work from home increases the urgency of being sure to have a professional mechanism to reach employees.