Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Telecommuting 'keeps talented women in the workplace' - study


Telecommuting or working from outside the office, "keeps talented women in the workplace," according to an online survey conducted by market researcher Ispos, on behalf of Reuters News. This is due to these women now having the option to stay with their career while having and raising children instead of getting on the career path to do so.

Further, those who "strongly agree" with this view were mainly from "Turkey (64%), Russia (62%), Poland (53%), Hungary (51%) and Indonesia (50%). Those in Sweden (14%), Canada (22%), South Korea (22%), Great Britain (24%), the United States (26%) and Japan (27%) are least likely to agree."
Published on January 23, 2012, data from the "The World of Work: Global Study of Online Employees" was collected via the Ipsos Online Panel system, which polled "11,383 online connected employees from 24 countries via online survey methodology between Ocober 7 and 20, 2011. The countries reporting [were] Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United States of America."

The report also revealed that 17%, or close to one in five, of the 11,000 plus polled, telecommuted "'a frequent basis': 7% say they 'work every day from home which is remote or separate from their employers real office elsewhere' while another 10% say they do so 'on a very consistent and constant basis like evenings and weekends.'"

Additionally emerging; "Telecommuting is primarily taking place in emerging markets: those working in the Middle East and Africa (27%), Latin America (25%) and Asia-Pacific (24%) are considerably more likely than those in North America (9%) and Europe (9%) to telecommute 'on a frequent basis.'
More specifically, employees in India (56%), Indonesia (34%), Mexico (30%), Argentina (29%), South Africa (28%) and Turkey (27%) are most likely to be pursuing this form of employment. On the other end, those in Hungary (3%), Germany (5%), Sweden (6%), France (7%), Italy (7%) and Canada (8%) are least like to telecommute 'on a frequent basis.'

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15265:telecommuting-keeps-talented-women-in-the-workplace-study&catid=79:analysis&Itemid=565

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