Situation 12 Present a change to the management of your company

My name is Mariya and I'm from Transportation Department. I have gone beyond the scope of my job and carried out a research. As you know, our department is engaged in searching for transport for the delivery of the cargo given by our clients.

I would like to start by saying that based on my working experience; I would like to propose to your suggestion my idea concerning the change of the work of the staff.

Every day we come to office and do our work. In order to reduce the time which is needed to go at work, I would like to propose to try teleworking.

Teleworking has a number of advantages for both parties: employer and employee.

Speaking about the employer, teleworkers can be more productive because they do not suffer the interruptions to their work that they would in an office. Teleworking leads to an improved motivation with reduced levels of stress and absence due to illness. The employer can allow the employee to work from home if he has some personal urgent changes.

For an employee, teleworking frees up the time each day spent travelling to work. Teleworking saves the cost of using a car or public transport to travel to work. Teleworking provides flexible working hours and permits to save work-family balance.

In other turn, I admit that teleworking has some disadvantages. Firstly, it becomes more difficult for managers to manage teleworkers and monitor their performance. A teleworker may feel isolated because they miss the social interaction from their colleagues at work. A teleworker may be unable to work effectively because of distractions in the home environment.

In our department we do not need to be present each day at office - we just need computers with necessary tools. We can do our job at home and 2-3 times per week come to the office and finalize our projects.

I am sure that teleworking will appeal to the great number of people from our department and it will positively effect on our department productivity.

Please, consider my offer and give me your response.