If you're comfortable with telephones, email, and AIM, consider keeping your employees out of the office. The results of a large new survey indicate that many people are willing to take pay cuts so long as they can work from home.
Dice Holdings contacted 1,500 professionals and found, "37% said they'd cut their salary by up to 10%." It's not like you'd be asking these workers for a huge favor, either; Dice only brought up the issue of gas prices, so benefits related to sleep, clothing, and overall comfort might act as extra incentives.
Meanwhile, you'd be saving a considerable amount of money on payroll, and possibly more on office equipment and electricity.
You may not be able to get every employee to accept this deal, of course -36 percent of Dice's respondents disliked the idea. Also, it's probably best to have at least a couple of people maintaining an office or storefront.
This is the sort of potential win-win situation that seems worth investigating, though. Even a compromise - say, two days a week at home and a three percent cut - would help in a lot of ways.
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