profit
Telecommuting can promote the employment of some special social groups. Such as mothers or fathers with children, disabled people and people living in remote areas. It can also reduce the carbon footprint of individuals and minimize the carbon emissions generated by commuting every day. Telecommuting improves the company's service ability and the scope of business internationalization, because telecommuting in different time zones can ensure the company's business to run 24 hours a day. Telecommuting also makes offshore outsourcing possible. Telecommuting provides flexibility for employees, reduces the burden of working parents, improves the work efficiency of employees and reduces absenteeism. Virtual office enables employers to retain valuable employees and is conducive to effective business process redesign of order management and customer service processes.
environmental benefit
Telecommuting is regarded as a solution, which can alleviate the traffic jam caused by driving to and from work, and the resulting urban air pollution and oil use. The initial investment in network infrastructure and hardware is balanced by improving work efficiency and improving employee well-being (more precious family time and less travel-related pressure), which is very attractive to companies with large central offices facing high operating costs. Although the number of telecommuters in the United States is estimated to be different, some studies predict that this number will continue to grow in the next few years. Barriers to telecommuting will continue to increase, including distrust from employers and personal disorganization of employees.
A study conducted by Kate Lister and Tom Hanis in 2008 showed that 33 million Americans have jobs that can work from home. If they do this, the United States will greatly reduce its dependence on oil. According to the comprehensive data they obtained from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Ministry of Communications and seven other recent sources, they found that telecommuting can reduce oil imports in the Persian Gulf by 24% to 48%, reduce greenhouse gases by as much as 67 million tons every year and save 7.5 billion gallons of gasoline every year. These new telecommuters can save 65.438+05.4 billion miles of driving time and 25 billion dollars of fuel costs. More importantly, their research shows that these new telecommuters can enjoy an extra five weeks of rest every year without commuting.
Broadly speaking, telecommuting refers to establishing a temporary and secure connection in a public network (usually the Internet) through a virtual private network (VPN). This connection is very popular in enterprises at present, forming a safe and stable tunnel through a chaotic public network, helping remote users, company branches, business partners and suppliers to establish a credible and secure connection with the company intranet, and ensuring the safe transmission of data. Generally speaking, this method can support users' all-round daily office needs, including obtaining internal mail, accessing file servers, internal databases, CRM, ERP and so on. In local area network, not just remote control.
Virtual private network enables users to communicate securely through the Internet at any time no matter where they are. The commercial advantages of telecommuting through VPN are very attractive. Many companies have begun to formulate their own strategies, using the Internet as the main transmission medium, even including the transmission of trade secret data. Generally speaking, VPN mainly refers to hardware VPN, such as VPN router and VPN firewall. Famous manufacturers include Cisco, Junbo and Array.
Hardware telecommuting products are rejected by ordinary small and medium-sized enterprises because of their high cost, high maintenance cost and complex configuration. Therefore, some telecommuting software products have appeared in the market to meet the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises and individual users. This kind of products can meet the needs of telecommuting, and generally can be used for free or at a low price, plug and play, with simple operation and more humanized user interface. The main products are LogMeIn[ 1], VeriWire[2], TeamViewer, Internet users, etc. LogMeIn has formed several different sub-products according to the needs of telecommuting, such as remote control, remote backup, access to remote network and so on. The advantages are that the functions of the subdivided products are very clear and easy to use; The disadvantage is that if you want to use two subdivision functions, you have to install two products. VeriWire just makes up for the deficiency of the former. A software basically supports all telecommuting needs, including remote control, e-mail, push mail, ERP, file transfer and so on. And it is very convenient to integrate all applications into one platform. The disadvantage is that it is not easy to use it for the first time, so you should follow the help step by step. TeamViewer and Netman are two softwares that only need to be installed by both parties, and then they can log in to the account. They are very simple and easy to use, and are suitable for people who have no computer foundation.
From the traditional centralized office to the remote office, this change will take some time. Undeniably, in today's low-carbon economy, those companies that are the first to realize this can have the best competitiveness-lower office rent, healthier employees and a more positive atmosphere; Especially-lower turnover rate. What the company needs to do is to consider more details in the management mode of telecommuting. As a telecommuting individual, it can also be an environment to realize our free choice of office-it can be at home, a coffee shop, a small courtyard in the countryside, and we can be with our families anytime and anywhere.
Now there are leading networks to provide telecommuting services, which are provided to enterprises and individuals at low prices through professional telecommuting technology. Through regional differences and different labor costs, the operating costs of major enterprises are greatly reduced. In the future, a person can realize large-scale online business services. No matter at home or away, the work progress will be monitored through communication equipment such as mobile phones/computers, which is no longer necessary. The slogan of Lingxiu network remote service is: "Subvert traditional network and create a new era of network".
narrow sense
In a narrow sense, telecommuting refers to operating a remote computer through remote control technology or remote control software to realize non-local office: home office, telecommuting, mobile office and other telecommuting modes. The key of this technology lies in the security of penetrating intranet and remote control. Remote monitoring software that has done well in these two aspects are: domestic free software Netman, foreign charging software TeamViewer, PcAnywhere, Radmin and so on.