Many of the benefits of telecommuting are intuitive. The most obvious, of course, is the fact that employees who work remotely will become happier, and in most cases, more productive.

Yet these benefits may not be for the reasons you’d immediately suspect. Take the idea of productivity, for example – something we have examined before.

At the most basic level, workers should be more productive in their day-to-day jobs simply because they don’t want to squander a great opportunity. But there are other, more tangible ways an employee can be more productive.

For starters, their commute is eliminated. That’s an extra hour, to in some cases, three hours – round-trip – off the table. That time can be devoted to one’s work. Add to the equation the time it takes to prepare for work and look visually presentable, and you’re looking at four hours.

Of course, there are also benefits to in-office situations as well, and some companies will occasionally want telecommuters to work in the office.  This process of managing in-office telecommuters can be facilitated the help of room reservation software.