For this week's cavnessHR newsletter, we're going to talk about remote work and should you consider remote work at your company as a small business owner. So obviously remote work is not going to work everywhere. For example, at restaurants or if you have an auto repair shop. So we are not talking about those.
There are a lot of industries and a lot of businesses that lend themselves to remote work. For example, accounting, office work or creatives or software development and a host of others you can do remotely. Now some people will tell you that I need my people with me 40 hours a week. I need to see what they're doing. Well for that I would counter that stats show that people who work 40 hours in an office environment working nine to five, Monday to Friday. Stats show they're only working 20 actual hours a week. Because the other 20, they're talking to people and just wasting time and not actually doing the real work. So consider that.
Also, a lot of people say, well, I don't trust my people to do the job if they're not here. If that's the case the challenge is not whether or not to do remote work. The challenge is are you hiring the right people, that's going to do the job for you. That you can trust to do the job. So maybe you need to take a look at your hiring process.
Remote work can benefit both the employee and the employer. It can benefit the employee by cutting out time wasted on their commute. Most commutes to work are at least 30 minutes to one hour. Regardless if they are driving or taking public transportation. If you allow remote work, you no longer have to pay for the overhead of office space.
Allowing remote work will also open up your available talent pool. If everyone has to come into the office every day. Then everyone you hire has to be at least within driving distance. By allowing remote work, you significantly open up the potential talent pool that you can hire from.
Remote work is not for every organization or every company. But it is something I think everyone should consider if they can. Also with remote work, you have to consider it might be a really good recruiting tool for you. If you offer someone a job, working nine to five making 100,000 a year. But have to be at the office nine to five every day. Or you pay them less money, but they can work from home and do remote work. I believe you will have access to better talent that way.
With remote work, some people will say. Well, if everyone's not in the same place, we're going to lose the culture. It's not going to the same. Or there is not going to be any teamwork. However with tools like Zoom, Slack, Asana, Trello, and dozens of other tools to do remote work. That excuse is not relevant anymore. Some people will say, well, we can't build a culture with remote work. Well, you can build a culture with remote work.
Remote work is not for every company. But for those companies that it can work for, it is a way to improve the quality of life for your employees and improve your employer brand.
At cavnesHR we deliver HR to companies with 49 or fewer employees by automating the HR process while maintaining the human touch. Also, be sure to check out the cavnessHR podcast where we talk to small business owners, founders and people who help them succeed. If you're interested in being a guest, reach out to me at jasoncavness@cavnessHRcom or just reply on this platform.
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