Five signs your telework program is a bust

Do you know where your employees are working

"If companies don’t have a policy or performance management system in place that could help them monitor their telework program and focus on work output, then it might become chaotic,” says Cindy Auten, general manager for Telework Exchange.

Here are a few of the red flags telework advocates should watch for when their programs seem to be lacking positive results.

1. Lackluster management supportSome people simply don’t buy into telework, regardless of the promised benefits or the potential cost-savings to a company.

"It is rare, but in some cases senior upper management doesn’t like the prospect of employees working remotely and makes it difficult to move a program forward,” says Chuck Wilsker, president and CEO of The Telework Coalition. "There are those managers that believe presence equals productivity, no matter what the arguments for telework are. One word from the right manager can make the program go bust and turn it off immediately like a spigot.”