Reducing our Carbon Footprint and freeing ourselves from avoidable commutes, travel and meetings – these are essential goals for a green and lean organization.

The days of hiring a new staff person, asking them to move to new city, uprooting their spouse and job, removing kids out of school and friendships, selling their house, moving, buying a new house, reestablishing their spouse and kids in a new location, then commuting to work perhaps an hour each day in order to sit in a cubicle next to others in the same organization – this is rapidly becoming a scenario of the past.

Today, it is often more practical and effective to hire the best people you can find from a wider geographical base and let them stay where they are. They may or may not report to an actual office several days a week, and will also remain mobile and able to work out of a home office.

Your talent pool expands dramatically, people can work more flexible hours, productive goes up and costs go down.



According to Gartner Dataquest, more than 12 million people in the U.S. are telecommuters working from home for eight or more hours per week. That’s a 100 percent increase from the six million telecommuters in 2000. Furthermore, Gartner projects that by 2009, more than 25 percent of U.S. employees will be telecommuters (40 million).

These people and their organizations will require new and better ways of achieving Transparent Team Collaboration™. Let’s look at how you can help save the planet and increase your own company’s productivity at the same time.