Slides from a speech given by Kate Lister at the Work Anywhere Symposium at Sacramento State University. It demonstrates the potential bottom line impact of telework for the California state and local government workforce (over $4 Billion a year). The all day program was organized by Secure Computing Environments.

1. Building the Business Case for:
Workplace Mobility
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2. Telework Savings Calculator™
‣ 500 Case Studies
‣ Models for US, UK and Canada
‣ Used by 100 s of companies
‣ Cited in Harvard Business Review,
Washington Post, Wall Street
Journal . . .
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3. Who Says?
‣ 2005 Booz Allen / GSA Study
‣ CA Air Resources Board
‣ US American Community Survey
‣ US Bureau of Labor Statistics
‣ US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
‣ US Environmental Protection Agency
‣ Reason Foundation
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4. Employer Savings
• Productivity
• Real Estate
• Absenteeism
• Turnover
. . . and more
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5. CA State Employee
Telework Savings Model
Assumptions
Assumption for:
#
Source
Days per week
2
Increased productivity
15%
Booz Allen / GSA
Reduced real estate
20%
Booz Allen / GSA
Reduced absenteeism
4 days a Booz Allen / GSA
year
Reduced turnover
15%
Synthesis
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6. Tell ‘em what they’ve won Jane!
Annual Savings
per 2 Day/Week Telecommuter
Savings
Per Person
CA Gov’t Wide
Productivity
$6,235
$2.6 B
Real Estate
$1,360
$563 M
Absenteeism
$1,790
$741 M
Turnover
$1,979
$819 M
The Bottom Line
$11,365
$4.7 B
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7. Facilities Savings Examples
 Deloitte: 10% staff increase, 42%
decline in real estate
 Sun: 19,000 teleworkers saved $96
million (RE, Electricity, IT)
 Oracle BV: 248 s.f. pp to 140 s.f.
 McKesson: $2 million/year
 U.S. Patent Office: $11 million/year
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8. And More . . .
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9. Yeah but, what about costs?
...
MB says
U .S. O
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10. No wonder they’re happier!
Employees save:
Befor
e
‣ Time
‣ Money
A fter
‣ Sanity
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11. And More
 Eldercare
 Office gifts
 Car insurance
 Shopping sprees
 Housing
 Taxes
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12. And that means . . .
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13. Sustainability
Statewide Impact
Statewide
‣ 1.8M Barrels of oil
‣ 330K tons of GHG
‣ 3,900 tons of air pollutants
‣ 718 million vehicle miles
‣ $72 million in traffic accidents
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14. It s time we made the road less
traveled the way to work! ™
Kate Lister
Telework Research Network
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kate@TeleworkResearchNetwork
760-703-0377 (Left Coast Time)
Let us help you make the business case
for workplace flexibility.
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