With the use of an HTML-based mainframe terminal emulator, companies can expand their options for when and where employees can work. This can include more opportunity for working remotely. First, however, businesses need to think carefully about how their employees might transition into such an environment and still retain their effectiveness.
Forbes' Drew Hendricks recently wrote about the advantages of a telecommuting program and how this may well be the path that more businesses head down in the future, although "not without some growing pains." Even so, these "pains" could be necessary later on.
"There was a time when it was necessary to meet in person to share information, collaborate with colleagues, and exchange documents, but with great digital web conferencing options, cloud hosting and the rise of connected, business-functional mobile devices, that's no longer an issue," Hendricks says.
According to statistics posted last year by Global Workplace Analytics, more than 3 million Americans were telecommuting for at least half of the time in 2012, and the federal government boasted the largest amount of workers who made significant use of telecommuting, with more than 3 percent of its workers getting tasks done in this way. The amount of people telecommuting also grew by nearly 80 percent over the course of a seven year period.
Encouraging employees to use their own devices and interact with mainframes online means a company can develop new plans that make better use of screen-to-cloud solutions.
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