The flexibility offered by telecommuting is helping to keep more talented women in the workplace, revealed a new report.
Some 83% of employees who participated in the poll agreed that telecommuting allows women to continue working instead of leaving temporarily or completely to raise children. They also said that telecommuters have less stress due to less time spent in getting to their workplace.
Conducted by global research company Ipsos, for Reuters News, the poll found that 80% of employees who telecommute are better able to achieve balance between work and family.
The report also revealed that one in five employees who can be connected online, work from places other than their employer’s office.
For this report, Ipsos surveyed a total of 11,383 online connected employees from 24 countries via an online survey in October 2011.
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