VOIP or Voice Over Internet Protocol works. We are well beyond the wait and see of the technology and if your company is not embracing it, another company will be stealing your best employees with it. Offering VoIP to employees makes sense now more then ever. With commute times ever increasing, the sky rocketing cost of gas, and the environment, implementing a telecommuting company policy makes good business sense. The best reason to offer telecommuting is to attract and retain talent. Ask any employee what's important to them and the answer will be family. Telecommuting allows employees to spend more time with the family. Spending more family time provides employees with a better and less stressed life style. A happy employee is going to stay longer and be more productive. Offering telecommuting even on a part time basis can have a huge impact.

Who is using telecommuting now?
Check out www.workingmother.com for a list of the best companies to work for. All of the companies on the list offer telecommuting. The corporate consulting giant Accenture scored big with a recent ABC documentary about it's telecommuting policy. The ABC report focused on three companies including IBM, Accenture and a smaller company called Crayon. According to the report 42% of IBM employees telecommute saving the company over 100 million dollars annually on real estate. 92% of Accenture employees, with a work force of over 24,000, utilize telecommuting. Implementing telecommuting is easy and inexpensive. You don't have to fork over an arm and a leg to offer it. The price of VoIP phone systems have really come down and, with other features such as built in conference bridges, new IP based phone systems can pay for themselves with a short ROI. Other devices enable you to add VoIP to any existing phone system for an investment only a few hundred dollars. For more information on how your company can implement telecommuting check out http://www.telcom-data.com/voip-systems.aspx

From the desk of Ricardo Trinidad
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