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Presenter: Kyra Cavanaugh, President, Life Meets Work Find the hidden gem in your eco-initiative. Hear how companies and governments across the country are shrinking their carbon footprint with flexible workforce strategies such as telecommuting, compressed workweeks, and alternative shift scheduling. We'll discuss benefits to the environment and your bottom line.TRANSCRIPT
The Emerald Office: Eco-Friendly Workforce Strategies
Kendall CollegeMay 18, 2009
Goals for this workshop
To demonstrate how flexible workforce strategies support green and corporate sustainability goals
To discuss practical ways to implement and optimize flex work programs
What is your goal for today?
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Going Green
Corporate Sustainability
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Outperformed peers by
72%
Alternative Workforce Strategies Part-time Condensed workweeks Teleworking Alternative Shift Scheduling Flex start and end times Summer hours Job sharing
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Impact of alternative workforce strategies
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Impact of alternative workforce strategies
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Impact of alternative workforce strategies
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Case Studies4-day workweek
13% across 900 govt office buildings
Looking for inefficiencies to save more
Challenge: how to turn off massive HVAC systems on Fridays
business travel by 10% per employee in 2008
Saved $92M and 17,000 metric tons of CO2
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Ranked #3 in Forbes 20% of Fairfax public employees using
AWS traffic in the county by 6%
Open Work program Saves over $70M/yr in real estate costs, Reduced 31,000 tons of greenhouse gases (23%) from 2002-
2007 Wants to reduce another 20% by 2015
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Case Studies
Can you guess?
10 additional benefits of flexible work programs for organizations
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AWS sustains corporate performance 60% of teleworkers are less likely to look for another job.
--2008 Clean Air Campaign study
87% of employees and managers agreed telecommuters’
productivity improved or stayed the same. --2008 Study by National Science
Foundation
Teleworkers were more engaged and had more favorable opinions of senior management.
--2008 study of 10,000 workers by Kenexa Research Institute
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Alternative workforce strategies
Concerns?
Obstacles?
Here are five big ones…
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Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with
their results.George S. Patton
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Setting up flexible work teams
Approach A:
1) Create a proposal
2) Offers flexible work options to eligible team members.
3) Start with pilot program for 3-6 months
4) Evaluate
Approach B:
1) Allow entire organization, department, or team to work flexibly.
2) Team establishes and agrees to rules
3) Everyone signs a Flexible Work Agreement
4) Review and resign every six months
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Managing flexible work teamsFive Key Components:
1. Execute a Virtual Teams Agreement
2. Create a sense of place
3. Communicate deliberately
4. Set goals and track performance
5. Choose the right people
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Your management style matters
Trust vs. Control
??
Where do you fit?
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Call us to continue the conversation
Kyra CavanaughPresident, Life Meets Work
lifemeetswork.com888-462-5691
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