Home Office in Brazil, a major challenge for corporations

Companies that keep an office open to meet the demands of their business face various costs such as rent, transportation, electricity, water, network infrastructure, and other costs, which can generate a very high expense when placed on the tip of the pencil.

Currently, depending on the company’s segment, it aims to reach all of Brazil with at least one branch in each state, keeping the structure for a small number of employees, but that comes with a high cost of managing these units. The importance of maintaining regional offices is to show your brand and meet customers who are out of town where the array is.

In this case, companies are major challenges from maintaining these offices to management employees. Thinking about these costs, some large companies are opting for work Home Office.

But after all, what is the home office?

Home office is the act of employees work of his own residence, as if they were inside the office, with access to e-mails, internal chat, integrated extension, remote meetings with supplied or not by the company equipment, such as smartphones, laptops, desktops and even delivered virtually environments.

But when it comes to home office, is likely to generate a fear among managers of the companies, it is a concept that encompasses many factors, from the delivery of this form of work, with access to the same resources that the employee would have been present in the office to how to manage these professionals and the concern about the legislation practiced today in Brazil.

Before you even allow this type of work and check the rules governing this model, it is necessary that the company is open to change and that habit this new concept within their culture.

In this type of work, employees undergo a new acculturation, as the output of the traditional model for the home office requires adaptation of all, especially among those longest in companies.

Some perceived benefits that working model:

• Cost reduction with: infrastructure, energy, space, furniture, office supplies, among others;
• Zero cost to getting out of the employee;
• Greater employee time utilization (no delays to get to the office);
• Improvement in the quality of life of employees;
• Contribution to the environment (sustainability);
• Higher yield of employees;
• Improvement in customer service;
• Greater possibility of concentration;
• Greater flexibility;
• Among others.

According to a survey conducted by Citrix Systems, 77% of people feel they are more productive when they work outside the office, while 21% think they have the same productivity and only 2% see lower returns.

This is explained by the fact the employee feel more free and have the autonomy to organize also outside their office hours. With the home office option, the employee usually goes beyond its time and can produce more. In this aspect, he has just buying time up on your commute to the office, which can be reversed in hours worked.

As previously mentioned, the company should be open to this new vision and know how to manage your employees, looking at your goals and commitment to the delivery of their tasks and no longer measure the entry and exit times of work.

Despite these benefits, before adopting this model, it is necessary that the company understands the work performed by each professional and stipulates the necessary targets and deadlines for the delivery of their activities, because according to a study by researchers Kimberly Elsbach and Daniel Cable, University California and London Business School, the home office practitioners have up to 25% less likely to be promoted than those who work in person, so the importance of having a management prepared to examine the employee and have a stable career path.

To provide the necessary mobility, there are solutions that deliver desktops (computers) virtualized way for them to have access anywhere and at any time, through available resources in data centers of companies. In addition to delivering this type of service, you can manage smartphones users and define what is and what is corporate staff and select only what is important to the business.

The big idea of this software is to deliver the device to the staff without his having obstacles in their day to day to access the information, but that gain performance, regardless of equipment be it (BYOD – Bring Your Own Device) or if the company provide for their work.

The BYOD is a big trend that has become reality in many companies at the world, and in Brazil has been gaining more supporters.

There are several ways of doing BYOD and encourage employees to join. What we have to worry about is how often we bring in transparency in this process and how we will deliver the necessary infrastructure to meet the BYOD on any platform, anywhere on any internet link.

In a future free vision, convergence between home office more BYOD goes directly to meet the major global concerns: the search for more sustainable cities and a healthier lifestyle, generating welfare to reviewers. Therefore, the correct choice of current technologies that will support this process fully affect the future that is being built and desired by all.

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