Comments on: Small Business vs. Working at Home

By: eFrontier

eFrontier — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:10:18 +0000

From my experience, small businesses are not very open to working at home. Usullly, small businesses are run by the owners who are pretty much bent towards controlling everything. So they like all thier employees to be in office where they can see them.

By: Paula G

Paula G — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:30:03 +0000

The other key point is — how many of these large companies “support” telecommuting and flexible arrangements yet in practice leave it up to “manager discretion” so many people lose out on the benefit even if there is no rational business reason why they couldn’t be a web worker. That is the hidden statistic that no study will really bear out (because no one can measure it or get behind the curtain as to what is REALLY happening).

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:38:21 +0000

If you want so desperately to work from home, why work for a company at all?

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By: Kåre Mulvad

Kåre Mulvad — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:26:55 +0000

Also considering the larger and larger amount of cafeworkers, or digital beduins, the stats seems a bit old-school, and not in line with the development of the workforce.

An other note from Denmark: SMB’s defined under 500 empl. seems as a high number – wihtout knowing the average size of companies in DK.

By: Lance

Lance — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:16:43 +0000

“In addition, it’s a waste of office space if someone isn’t sat at a desk…”

It’s still a waste if the person is sitting at the desk is being unproductive (a.k.a desk jockeys). Sometimes being in a hustle and bustle of a small office is just not conducive to those that have to create (especially code). Small businesses would actually save money if they got smaller offices and worked remotely. VPN software/hardware is getting cheaper (relative to rent). I think this is on the rise and I hope it continues as well.

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:59:37 +0000

For me, the principal statistics missing here are those that match the actual number of SMB’s that frown on and / or don’t support home working to the number of employees they have on their payroll.

My guess would be that the figures for those businesses would be 10 employees or less. In which case, the reason for not support home working would be lack of resources and simply losing key resources by having people working from home.

After all, most very, very businesses rely on their employees sharing duties, like answering the phone, for example.

In addition, it’s a waste of office space if someone isn’t sat at a desk…