5 Great Reasons To Hire A Telecommuter
How would you like to hire someone that is more motivated and
more qualified to do the work and costs you less than your
average employee? No, I am not talking about hiring someone
illegally. You can accomplish this simply by employing a
telecommuter. Let's take a look at 5 very good reasons, why it
makes sense for you to consider telecommuting from an employer's
perspective.
1) Less Overhead How much is all this office space, furniture,
computer equipment along with your IT department to maintain
them, utility bills etc. costing you? Telecommuters do not
require any of the above, which will cut your overhead cost
tremendously. Telecommuters use their own office, their own
equipment from computers to paperclips; use their own power,
phone and Internet connection. If their computer acts up, it's
up to them to get it up and running again.
2) Less Benefits To Pay Most telecommuters are independent
contractors. You do not have to provide for health care,
workman's compensation or paid vacation. Consider the tax
benefits as well; there is no employer portion of federal and
state tax to pay.
3) Hire Experts When Needed Do you need someone to write the
occasional press release and maybe come up with a revision to
your brochure every once in a while? Instead of hiring someone
fulltime as your marketing person, consider outsourcing the
tasks to a freelance telecommuter. You will pay per project, or
hire your freelancer for a few hours per month, instead of
creating a marketing position. Freelancers give even small
businesses the opportunity to hire an expert for almost any
task.
4) On Demand Work Do you expect a temporary increase in your
workload, be it seasonal, or because you just landed a large
project? Why not pick up a few telecommuters for the task
instead of working with inexperienced temps, or hiring in-office
personnel that you may not need three months down the road.
Telecommuters combine the flexibility of temps with the
on-the-job experience of permanent employees. You get the best
of both worlds.
5) More Motivated Workers Telecommuters have a very good reason
why they want to work from home. Whether that reason is being
able to stay home with the kids, a disability, or avoiding a
long commute, being able to work from home makes them happy. As
you well know, happy employees are more motivated, don't count
the minutes until they can leave the office and overall get more
work done.
If you haven't already done so, I encourage you to give
telecommuter a try the next time you need a highly motivated,
experienced worker, but aren't in a position to create a
permanent onsite position. Once you have experienced all the
benefits a telecommuter brings to your organization, you may
even consider converting even more positions to telecommuting.