Telework -- sending employees home to work -- is an excellent business strategy for companies that want to improve their bottom line and stay competitive.
Jennifer Thomas Alcott, Telework!VA's program manager, will make that case tomorrow at a free workshop in downtown Richmond.
She and Harriett West, a consultant with the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation, will develop the topic "An Introduction to Telecommuting: The Employer Option that Pays."
RideFinders, a division of GRTC Transit System, will host the workshop at the Main Street Center, main conference room, 600 E. Main St., from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
"We will also clarify some of the myths about telework," Alcott said. Some managers think, for example, that telework employees work five days a week from home, and they'll never see them, she said. Most telework one or two days a week.
She will discuss how micro-managers can successfully deal with employees who work outside of their line of vision.
Companies that have a successful program think about work "as something employees do, rather than where they do it," she said. "They manage by results rather than by line of sight. A good employee is a good employee regardless of where they're sitting."
RSVP today by calling (804) 643-7433.
Lunch -- and parking at Bank of America, 1111 E. Main St. -- is courtesy of RideFinders. Bring in your parking ticket. -- Iris Taylor
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