The idea of telecommuting is a highly attractive one to many people. The attraction arises out of the fact that through it, people can get to work from the comfort of their homes. This would translate to many benefits. For starters, it would translate to savings on travel costs, to and from work. Secondly, it translates to greater convenience. Nothing, in terms of convenience, beats the opportunity to work right from your bed, in your pajamas! And thirdly, it translates to less work stress: starting with that which one would be very likely to encounter on the roads on their way to work, to that which tends to come up as tensions build up in offices.
Unfortunately, in its earliest days, telecommuting was seen as something that was only possible for certain jobs and not for others. People whose work did not involve a lot of personal interactions, the likes of accountants and computer programmers, were seen as the only people who could telecommute. On the other hand, people whose work revolved around a lot of personal interactions and the making of various presentations like managers were told that they couldn’t telecommute.
Thankfully though, through tools like the increasingly popular remote presentation software, it is becoming possible for people whose work previously made it possible for them to telecommute to do so nowadays. That is especially the case for managers whose day to day work, for the most part, revolves around preparing and making various presentations.
It is because of that nature of their work (which involves making and attending presentations), that managers were previously seen as the sorts of people who couldn’t work from home. After all, in the absence of a mechanism through which they could make presentations from home, how would they be able to go about their work?
Remote presentation software changes the dynamics of the issue radically.
Through the remote presentation software, it becomes possible for people to make presentations from wherever they happen to be, in real time, and in a professional platform. And thanks to that, the argument that managers couldn’t telecommute ‘because their work involved making presentations’ doesn’t hold water any more. Through remote presentations software, it becomes possible for managers, from the comfort of their homes, to make presentations to colleagues (or other business stakeholders) who may be thousands of miles away. That means that through this software, the business managers not only get the opportunity to work from their homes, but they could even work from their hotel rooms while on vacation.
To be sure, not all managers will still be able to telecommute even with the emergence of remote presentation software. There are elements of management work that require real person interaction, and which simply can’t be done remotely. What is for sure though, is the fact that on the days when all that the manager is schedule to do happens to be a series of internal presentations, they can manage to work from home, through the use of the remote presentation software. And that opportunity to work from home, even if it is just occasional, would be a great relief to many driven managers who, as things stand, hardly ever get any opportunity even to breathe.