UpTheRevolution

UK

Software Engineer

Although standard operating system provisions for remote access are poor (file transfer over RDP anyone??) there are plenty of flexible and secure remote access solutions both 3rd-party (e.g. LogMeIn) and self-hosted (e.g. SimpleGateway).

In this day and age there is no reason why so many workers need to be wasting their time and money going into an office to do a job they could be doing from the comfort of their own home.

Giving your staff real flexibility can boost morale enormously and the benefits of people working from home on a mass scale are enormous, even just from a transport and emissions perspective.

There are a lot of managers in this country that can't bear the idea that they won't be able to see their staff so they can "manage" them. One wonders if it is because they secretly suspect that with everyone working autonomously from home they wouldn't have a job any more...