GoToMyPC Research Report Sample

Our own research over the past seven years, along with a number of real-world company experiences, confirms that an Alternative Workplace Strategy and an aggressive remote/distributed work program can reduce workforce-support costs by 40% or more. That is not an exaggeration: the biggest and most obvious source of those reductions is real estate and corporate facilities costs. Companies like Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, and IBM have been able to reduce their investments in real estate and facilities by up to 50%, driving costs down by $50 million or more per year.

Sun Microsystems’ iWork program was based largely on the discovery that over one-third of Sun’s office-based employees did not “badge in” to their assigned office building on any given day. They were already working at home, traveling, or attending meetings in other Sun facilities. The obvious conclusion was that there was simply no need for Sun to maintain all those empty offices, and the iWork program3 was created to move thousands of Sun employees into shared workplaces, or “touchdown” facilities that many different people would use over the course of a day or a week.