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Flexible Ways to Work
Not all commuting involves making a trip. You can reduce the number of trips you make to work if your company offers non-traditional work arrangements such as Teleworking, Compressed Work Weeks or Flextime.
Commuters find that these programs offer them a flexibility and employers find that these programs allow them to meet business needs. Of course you should check with your company to see what is available.
Not all commuting involves making a trip. You can reduce the number of trips you make to work if your company offers non-traditional work arrangements such as Teleworking, Compressed Work Weeks or Flextime.
Commuters find that these programs offer them a flexibility and employers find that these programs allow them to meet business needs. Of course you should check with your company to see what is available.
Teleworking
Computer models project that for every additional 3 percent of commuters who worked from home on any given day, traffic delays would be cut by 10 percent.
Teleworking is catching on in many companies. It allows employees in certain types of jobs, to perform some of their assigned tasks at home. Employees can use computers, faxes, phones, and e-mail to communicate with their office. Many Teleworkrs work at home two or three days a week, and go to the office on the alternate days.
Computer models project that for every additional 3 percent of commuters who worked from home on any given day, traffic delays would be cut by 10 percent.
Teleworking is catching on in many companies. It allows employees in certain types of jobs, to perform some of their assigned tasks at home. Employees can use computers, faxes, phones, and e-mail to communicate with their office. Many Teleworkrs work at home two or three days a week, and go to the office on the alternate days.
- Learn more from the Telecommute Advisory council
- Learn more about the Telework Tax Incentive Act
- Do You Want To Work At Home?
- Make telecommuting work for your business (article)
- Should bosses ban ěpajama commutes?î (article)
Compressed work weeks allows employees to work fewer days, but still work full-time hours. This reduces commute trips and allows employees extra time for family, school, and errands without compromising on employee productivity.
Employers can compress the days and hours that people work in many different ways. This can include:
- 4/40 - Working forty hours over four days. Employees are off one extra day a week.
- 8/80 - Working eighty hours over a two week period. Employees have one extra day off every two weeks.
- 3/36 - Working 36 hours over three days. Employees have two extra days off every week.
Flextime allows employees to alter their hours in order to accommodate commuting schedules or personal commitments. The flextime schedules usually do not change every day but are fixed. This can include a permanent shift in work hours or may be part of a rotating schedule in which your hours change on a weekly, biweekly, or monthly basis.
Flexible work hours can often be the key to coordinating work schedules with carpools, vanpools, or transit. Even the ability to flex your start and end time by a half hour can help expand your commute choices.
E-Mail TransOptions to request more information on flexible ways to work.
