With more women preferring to work during day hours and avoiding night shifts in business process management and IT enabled services, the idea of telecommuting is increasingly being seen as a solution to retain employees.

Besides attracting more women into this highly human resource centric industry, the idea of telecommuting will also help the employer retain staff over a long run.

This would be particularly helpful for women from non-metro locations to be a part of the IT/BPO industry, and such firms can retain talented women in the industry, says the report published in the Financial Express.

Telecommuting is also helpful for newly married women and young mothers who are keen to make a comeback after quitting for those reasons.

R Venugopal, general manager, center-head, Coimbatore, Robert Bosch Engineering and Solutions, said: “We are operating in niche automobile engineering areas. We have about 2,200 women in Coimbatore. Many quit following marriage and childbirth."

That is when we realized that even a career of high-end engineering research would go for toss as working women in India relocate to their husband’s place after marriage. We can’t afford women with deep engineering expertise to idle, he says.

“Telecommuting coupled with flexible working hours would greatly help in leveraging the talent of women employees who had summarily taken a sabbatical for child upbringing and homemaking,” Venugopal added.