If you’ve been looking for a reason for telecommuting that will get your bosses on board with the idea, Cisco Systems has 277 million of them—that’s how many dollars the company estimates they saved by having just under 2,000 people telecommute an average of 2 days a week for a year. As is often the case with telecommuting studies, there were more benefits than just financial savings, too; telecommuters felt their quality of life was improved and the environment was saved from significant pollution.

Cisco did the study over the 2008 year, with 1,992 employees across the world taking place, with the majority of the employees saying their productivity had improved, as well as the timeliness of their work (all of which contributed to the almost $300 million savings Cisco saw). Few felt their communication with coworkers was negatively affected by telecommuting and the vast majority felt their overall quality of life improved. Click here to read more

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