By Kyra Cavanaugh, Life Meets Work
In the earliest days of Life Meets Work, my clients tended to be smaller companies who were just starting to introduce flexible work. As I pitched our consulting services, I talked with a good number of employers who bemoaned the lack of skilled talent, yet refused to consider remote workers. They wanted the best...but insisted the "best" live within a 60-minute commuting distance.
During the recession, employers could get away with such face-time mandates. But recession or not, the U.S. is facing a skilled worker shorter and it's about to get whole lot worse. If you want to build a world-class team, you can't limit yourself to your local community.
In a move expected to save the General Services Administration (GSA) about $600,000 in leasing costs, the federal agency cut their Washington headquarters' square footage by half while maintaining the same number of employees. How? By creating a hoteling and telework program that simultaneously caters to executive orders for a more mobile workforce and reducing underutilized real estate.
Find out how GSA is cutting costs and improving workplace flexibility
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