Half working from home
SME's 43% more likely to see revenue rise if some staff work from home sometimes, survey finds.
In the US, Yahoo might have banned working from home, but here the concept seems to be catching on.
A new survey finds almost half the country’s small and medium businesses (SMEs) now have employees who work from home or away from the office.
Accounting software company MYOB commissioned independent market research firm Colmar Brunton to conduct a nationally representative survey of 1047 SMEs (small to medium enterprises).
Some 18% said their employees worked “mainly away from the office,” 28% said they worked “partly from home and from the office” and the remainder did not have remote workers.
One finding was that SMEs whose employees worked mostly from a location other than business premises were 43% more likely to have seen a revenue rise in the past year than those without remote workers. They were 21% less likely to see a revenue fall.
NBR staff
Tue, 23 Apr 2013
Tue, 23 Apr 2013
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