T
V Rao Learning Systems Develops a New Tool to measure the suitability of
working from Home
Work
from Home Suitability Quotient (TVRLS-WFHSQ)
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V Rao Learning Systems Pvt Ltd
Work from Home does not suit everyone. By making it a policy and making everyone work from home on some days or all the time firms may bring down their productivity and increase transaction costs.
When
you pay Rs. 30,000 (thirty thousand rupees) to any employee, he/she costs three
rupees a minute. An hour wasted is 180 rupees wasted. Working from home is more
suited for certain individuals who save commuting time and related energy and give
higher level of productivity. Those with do not have infrastructure and other facilities
to work from home, are subject to interruptions and social pressures due to
multiple roles they have to perform at
home may not be able to give their 100% working from home. Hence it is
advisable for firms to identify those that are ideally suited for WFM home and
develop a framework for WFH than rushing into policies.
If
you have a workforce of 50 employees and all of them are asked to work from
home, even if it does not suit 20% of them you will be lowering your
productivity. For example, if the CTC of
each of the 50 employees is Rs. 12 lakhs. That means each one of them is on a
rupees one lakh per month gross remuneration and each of them cost you Rs. 600
an hour. Approximately. a productive time loss of one hour a day means at least
20 to 25 hours a month per employee or equal to Rs. 12,000 a month per employee.
For 10 of them (20% of the 50 employees) it costs 12 months x Rs. 12,000 x 10 =
Rupees 14,4000 (14.4 lakhs) and opportunity cost is Rs. 1.4 crores. That will
be the saving your company can have by differentiating those who are suitable
from those who are not suitable and take preventive or corrective action.
How
to deal with those not suited to work from Home?
Firms
must first identify the reasons. The diagnostic tool by TVRLS, Work from Home
suitability quotient is based on the assumptions that employees can give
maximum productivity f they have the following to work from home:
1.
Infrastructure
facilities measured by Infrastructure quotient (InfraQ)
2.
Interruptions
and Interference quotient (InterQ)
3.
Personality
and attitudes Quotient (PAQ)
4.
Productivity
and Time saved quotient (PTQ)
The
four quotients add to give a percentage score or an overall WFHSQ. The
corrective actions of company based on this tool include:
·
Providing
infrastructure and other facilities
·
Training
to manage WFH (attitude and time management training)
·
Family
counselling
·
Establishing
monitoring and other support in consultation with employee
·
Decision
to encourage WFH all days or some days for each employee
·
Decision
to discourage not allow some individuals to work from home
·
Job
redesign and work allocation and reallocation to facilitate those with high
suitability to WFH
·
Etc.
The
tool takes 10 minutes and will be available soon for use. Firms will be able to
identify with the help of this tool those who are suitable to work from home
and save a lot of unproductive time. They will also get the best from employees
by using the tool and designing appropriate interventions.
Enhance your Employee Productivity by using this Diagnostic Tool
Firms may desire to enhance their employee productivity by diagnosing individuals who are suited to work from home and also suggesting mechanisms to save time and use talent appropriately
TVRLS believes that happy people give higher levels of value add. Participative diagnosis helps enhance happiness, satisfaction, and engagement. Using this easy to use tool:
Plan interventions to maximize productivity through WFH
Formulate polices or frameworks to work from Home
· Examine the impact of these frameworks and policies and recommend to firms.
Coach employees to maximize the impact of WFH
For details write to: tvrlsblr@gmail.com
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