Almost half of employees believe that they work more effectively remotely but only 8% of managers trust their staff to work out of the office, according to research conducted by YouGov.
The research, commissioned by BT Business and Nortel, revealed that 42% of staff feel that they could work better remotely but, despite a raft of new technology, business owners are reluctant to allow their staff to work away from the office.
With many small businesses currently struggling in the current crisis SME owners are being advised that being flexible and allowing staff to work remotely could provide their firm with a boost.
"This boils down to a matter of trust. In the current climate, small firms need to be operating at full stretch," said John Wright, national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses.
"Last week's bad weather demonstrated the need for British businesses to enable their employees to be productive, wherever they are."
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Companies that take advantage of the technologies that are available at the moment, will be the ones that survive beyond the next few years.
The other way to look at is - you've got ten employees, on £25,000 salaries.
Offer them the tools to work from home and you may get an extra 2 hours per week of productivity from each employee as they may do the odd bit of work while at home.
That's a combined 20 hours extra per week of extra work that might make the difference between keeping your clients happier than elsewhere, and your business surviving through this recession.
My company use an outsourced desktop service by a company called Nasstar and we're able to work from absolutely anywhere.
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