Three years ago I proposed the implementation of teleworking or telecommuting to the Indonesian business community as one solution to the increasing oil prices, at that time was as high as US$140 per gallon. The Government of Indonesia was at that time provided price subsidies to domestic oil prices so as to enable lower domestic oil prices for the common Indonesians to buy, since most of their salaries were too little to buy oil prices at international standard prices.
The subsidy caused a very heavy burden to the Indonesia Government's annual budget, causing a large budget deficit.
If teleworking was implemented at that time, large savings of oil supply could be obtained, to reduce budget deficit substantially. One reason not to implement telework at that time was that the telecommunication network was not as extensive, cheap and as better quality than that of today.
Today we can enjoy a better quality of Internet services, fixed as well as mobile, over the terrestrial copper cables(ADSL Speedy), the optical cables, fixed wireless, mobile wireless, 3G, 3.5G, 3.9G using various types of transmission modulations, such as CDMA 200 1x EVDO, GSM, HSDPA, HSPA+, WiFi, WiMAX with speeds higher than 20 Mbit/sec.
It is therefore the implementation of Teleworking or Telecommuting in Indonesia now is better prepared for a success.
Worse than before, the traffic jams in large Indonesian cities are becoming an obstacle to an efficient travels of workers from their homes to their offices. The now spent many hours just to go to their offices, and returned in the evenings. Much of fuel, energy, time and mental resources were expended. Worst still, rainy seasons in Indonesia as well as in other parts of the world are getting longer and longer, causing floods in lower level streets in many cities, thus making the worse traffic jams.
By implementing teleworking or telecommuting, time efficiency, travel efficiency, fuel costs savings, reduced national fuel needs, etc, can be easily obtained. Other value added result is an increase in our national productivity.
Why don't we all start with a teleworking or telecommuting right now?
Agree. I am currently looking for a telework because demands on raising a small child is getting high--I can't take my child to the daycare near my office any longer soon, and my commute time is 1 - 1.5 hours. Meaning I spend 2 - 3 hours on the road everyday. I found this interesting article: http://www.gilgordon.com/telecommutesafe/telebenefits.html
ReplyDeleteSo, can you tell me where I should look for telework jobs?