With property prices in Dublin sky rocketing, more and more of your employees are buying homes further and further away from their place of work as they cannot afford homes closer to work.
If it your employee must get out of bed at 6am, or earlier, to be in work at 9am and travelling time can be 2 or more hours, are the mentally and physically tired when they arrive at work? Dropping the child at the creche, leaving the children off at school. It must have some affect on them.
Also when they leave work at 5 or 5.30pm and make the return journey home, arriving after 8pm, do they blame the job, the company, their boss or others for their lack of family time. They also organise to organise picking up the children in thee vening also.
Do they get depressed at work and start to try and figure out how they are going to change jobs and get something closer to home rather than working.
What if an employee comes to you and says they are leaving to work closer to home to reduce travel time. Can you offer them flexible time, home working, 4 day week. Do you want to offer these. Can your company work with "non full time" employees. If everyone leaves at 4pm and takes Friday off, who will answer the phones and lock up?
When interviewing for new staff you should take all this into account. But could this be construed as discrimination against non city folk i.e. those who could not afford to live in the city?
Whatever, if the best person lives 2 hours from work and a good person lives 30 minutes from work, who would you be better off employing on the long term? Will you get the same out of a good person as against the best perosn who is tired and maybe depressed at 9am in the morning? Who is the better return on investment?
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Some interesting ideas but I think most irish managers judge productivity by how busy you look, if they can't see you your not working. The american model which judges productivity by results lends itself more to teleworking.
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