It provides new opportunities to innovate and explore alternative ways to balance work and family responsibilities. While savings from telework increase in relation to the size of the organization, the notion can work for any size of company - from home businesses to industry titans. What you need for telework to work properly is the right employee, the right boss, the right job and the right company,'' says Fortier. Workers who need constant supervision or the social climate only a standard workplace provides are not good candidates. And the wrong boss can quickly derail even the best teleworker,'' says Fortier.
Some companies are very pro-telework.
But you may have a boss who's from Jurassic Park or from the military, who has always managed by the clock and managed by presence. Fortier foresees a time when more people will opt to live and telework in quieter communities outside major urban centres, where property costs less. However, we'll also see a reverse migration of people coming in to the office buildings downtown to live,'' he says. Some public-sector unions initially feared telework would be used to exploit their members. Although still guarded in their support for telework, organized labour generally understands that the concept doesn't erode worker rights or threaten contracts.