Employee motivation: Homeworking 'should not affect employee performance'

Date: 08/04/2011

Businesses who offer staff incentives and recognition by allowing them to work from home will still see good staff performance as long as they measure their productivity, an expert has said.

Shirley Borrett, development director at the Telework Association, said that many managers worry that if they do not supervise workers, their employee performance will dip.

But, Ms Borrett explained, if bosses measure workers by what they expect them to achieve in the long-term, then there shouldn't be a problem.

"If managers measure people by what they expect them to do, what they expect them to achieve in a week or a month or a quarter or a year – if they're that kind of manager then they're not going to have a lot of problems managing people remotely because they know what they expect these people to produce.

"The fact that they can't see them is not a key thing in supervising them," she said.

According research revealed recently by Deloitte, one-third of bosses would be happy to allow flexible working during the Olympic Games next year. 

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