Let My People Go

摘要

Every company is trying to lower costs, improve efficiency and increase productivity. Here's a clever strategy: Just send all the employees home. No, not with pink slips-please, we've done enough of that already-but with laptops, broadband and IP phones. In fact, maintaining a home office is less expensive, and more productive, than setting up workers in larger facilities. Home users get broadband on the cheap, thanks to the DSL/cable price wars. They get more end-to-end bandwidth than the paltry allocation they receive in a major branch office, by a factor of 10 or more. Add in a VoIP-over-broadband service like Vonage's, and the total fixed voice and data package runs under $70 a month. Or build your own corporate VoIP service and cut that cost in half. For mobile users, add $60 for a cell phone and $30 for a remote-access service, and they can work anywhere, anytime-all for a cool $160 per month.