Telecommuting – a great work/life balancer for executives
Whether you’re job hunting for a new and challenging executive career step, or you’re in a management job you love, one of the best career strategies for developing a palatable work / life balance is telecommuting.
We’ve crossed a bit of a milestone – more than 30 million employees or entrepreneurs in the United States now telecommute, which is 10% of the population (and it’s a higher percentage if you’re only counting the working population). They might be road warriors. They might be office employees who take their weekly or monthly reports to their kitchen table once a week or twice a month. They can even be mid- or C-level executives like you.
The one thing employees and employers have in common with telecommuting is that it makes both groups happy. The difference is in the reasons why.
From the employee side, the change came about primarily because employees wanted an improved work / life balance. They wanted to cut down their traveling time, and save gas money to boot. They may have followed their spouses to new jobs in new cities and wanted to keep their own jobs. They needed the flexibility in their lives to work non-traditional hours due to family concerns.
From the employer side, the work still gets done, and it costs them less in overhead. Reduced office space needs, and lower costs for related utilities and supplies are part of the perks. On the less-readily-quantified side of things, telecommuters provide a bit of disaster recovery support by keeping company files off-site. And it makes employees happier, which leads to longer retention and lower HR recruiting costs.
Do you have the personality and management skills to make telecommuting work? Self motivation, ambition, the ability to work alone for extended periods without loneliness, and with the ability to keep distractions to a minimum are the key ingredients in using telecommuting to resolve work / life balance issues.
If you do, and if you think telecommuting would make you a happier executive, then make telecommuting a reality in your company – or find a company that offers it, and start writing your résumé to make the switch.
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