As the world of business is constantly evolving, it is becoming more and more evident how business departments today are also evolving in the way they function in order to stay influential to the business. According to this article from Business Vancouver, it is about a new study that was found by the Richard Ivey School of Business, on how home established and mobile workers of Telus are just as productive as office-established workers. Two thousand home based and mobile Telus workers were studied for a year, where studies showed that there was no distinction found between the performances of the office based workers or the home based and mobile workers.
After reading this article it is undoubtedly conspicuous how technology has become so convenient not only for our personal lives, but also for our professional lives. This article was quite interesting, because it offered an insight on how many organizations are changing the way they do things. Many companies like Telus are discovering new approaches to make work not only efficient but also fun for their employees. As according to the article, why make someone crawl out of bed in the morning to go to work with little to none motivation, rather than have them work in an environment where they will find a source of motivation to get things done. The article really highlighted the fact that, going to an office orientated environment for work will soon become a thing of the past, as the reaps of this new approach look inevitable.
As technology continues to grow at an immense pace, so do the functions of the way a business works. Businesses are taking advantage of the everyday new external influences like technology, to meet their strategic goals and objectives more efficiently.
By having employees work in their very own homes or by their mobiles, globalization and expansion is much easier than ever before. You would now be able to acquire a workforce working from all around the world. This would then play out to be extremely critical when trying to attain specialized workers in such a demanding market, in order to diversify your workforce. The amazing feature of this unique scheme is that it also saves money for these companies, where they can take the additional funds and implement them elsewhere. For example, instead of a company spending all this money on large office spaces for employees, that same money can be contributed to pension benefits and incentives. This would then resolve the concern of retaining experienced workers. In addition, by having employees work at home they are able to achieve flexible hours, which is also beneficial towards retaining top employees. Furthermore, this strategy is equally beneficial for internal influences. By having some employees work in their homes and others in less occupied offices, a positive and friendly organizational culture is attained. Moving forward, human-resource planning would also be severely impacted by this strategy. Human-Resource planning would become much more accessible than ever before. There would never be much concern of a labour shortage for companies, as there would be a vast selection of specialized employees working internally. Attracting supply from external sources would not be as difficult either, because of this new scheme and its convenience. In conclusion, the strategy being implemented in the article was relative to human-resources through many concepts that

companies like Telus are applying everyday in order to improve their profits and management operations.