Flexible working now more available to small firms
Tue, 06 Oct 2009
Putting flexible working schemes in place is becoming cheaper and easier for small and medium enterprises, it has been claimed.
Alistair McKinnon, senior product manager at ntl:Telewest Business, the UK's second largest fixed line communications company, said "small organisations are embracing more flexible working" because the technology needed to do it is now "much cheaper".
He was commenting after research conducted by cereal producer Kellogg's indicated that many workers would prefer flexible hours over a pay rise or a bonus.
Mr McKinnon explained that because smaller organisations can now afford to invest in broadband, Virtual Private Networks, internet protocol security and softphones, they can "very easily do things like home working".
He added: "Historically [flexible working] required more knowledge of technology and was more expensive to do, therefore a bit harder to work out a business case for doing it.
"These days, with a network-based service, even small companies can deploy multimedia. They may not have a great deal of IT specialism, because that's not their core job, but it means that they can very easily do things like home working."
According to Fresh Business Thinking, virtualisation technology now allows home-based workers and office staff to operate as though they are all in the same room.
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