Eco Friendly Workplace

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?

©Life Meets Work, 2009

Going Green

Corporate Sustainability


Outperformed peers by

72%

Alternative Workforce Strategies Part-time Condensed workweeks Teleworking Alternative Shift Scheduling Flex start and end times Summer hours Job sharing


Impact of alternative workforce strategies


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


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


Case Studies

Can you guess?

10 additional benefits of flexible work programs for organizations


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


Alternative workforce strategies

Concerns?

Obstacles?

Here are five big ones…


Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with

their results.George S. Patton


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


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


Your management style matters

Trust vs. Control

??

Where do you fit?


Call us to continue the conversation

Kyra CavanaughPresident, Life Meets Work

lifemeetswork.com888-462-5691

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