Workplace Application: This session will offer best practices for overcoming the barriers to workplace flexibility and provide a model for making the business case.

This session will offer a model for quantifying the employer, employee, and societal benefits of workplace flexibility-specifically home-based telework, and provide attendees with action steps for overcoming the obstacles that have held it back.For companies, workplace flexibility can lower costs by up to $20,000 per employee. It can reduce absenteeism and turnover, expand the talent pool, increase productivity, reduce greenhouse gases, improve disaster preparedness, and more. For employees, workplace flexibility offers a better work-life fit, improves morale, and promotes wellness.
For the community, it reduces traffic, enables fuller employment, and conserves energy.Yet, while more than half of all U.S. jobs are compatible with flexible work, less than 3% of the workforce works from home two or more days a week--the frequency that offers the greatest benefits. This workshop will answer the frequently asked questions about the why and how of workplace flexibility.

Recertification /Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to estimate the financial, environmental, and qualitative benefits of workplace flexibility, specifically home-based telework, for your organization
• See how workplace flexibility has increased productivity, reduced absenteeism and turnover, and saved millions of dollars for organizations such as Best Buy, British Telecom, HP, and many others
• Learn how successful companies have overcome the managerial, technological, and other barriers to workplace flexibility

*Additional programs fees and advance registration are required.