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@comcast.net | Ugh. I telecommute.
What does my company cover? $80 a month.....broadband and telephone. I dont spend much on gasoline. I dont have X hours commute time every day. That is the perk to me.
The perk to the company, however, is this: I am online more than I would be otherwise. I'll often work into the evening to finish something I would otherwise be logging off and letting slip as I prepared to commute back home. So they get more of my time.
The cost of maintaining the network and telephone drops at my cube PER MONTH cost as much as them paying for my broadband, and then you can factor in the insurance they aren't paying by my not being in a facility, the electricity I'm not using, the heating and cooling I'm not using, the sanitation I'm not using, the clean-up crew that cleans my cube nightly...liability isn't an issue, and I am less likely to be injured in bad weather in a commute, among other things.
To push the cost of broadband back on the telecommuter is a slap in the face. By working from home we are already saving the company money on several levels (the coffee machine savings alone is worth $5-$10 a month per employee). |
