PDQ Home working
– An office furniture solution for corporate home workers
Ever-increasingly, companies are encouraging their employees to consider permanent home working. Our research suggests that this is partly as a response to employee requests for a better work/life balance, and partly to reduce business costs. Agreeing part- or full-time homeworking arrangements with their employees can potentially save considerable sum on property and office overheads. This trend is continuing to increase at a pace, as companies strive for efficiencies, and people look for the magic mix between work and home.
In general, the provision of appropriate office furniture and equipment for these employees appears to be made quite informally – often bought by the employee through their expenses. However, this can leave the employer potentially exposed, as they have Health and Safety responsibility for their staff if they are permanently working at home. To take care of these responsibilities can be an expensive process for companies to carry out.
And because home working policies are often run internally, the office furniture marketplace doesn’t really cater for this – what can often be an immediate need. Furniture is on long lead times; suppliers are often unwilling to deliver and install to domestic addresses; along with being unable to provide competitive pricing for this sort of ‘one-off’ requirement. These are all common barriers to companies looking to introduce formal home working policies or projects.
At PDQ, we’ve developed a specific service aimed precisely at this corporate homeworking need, and tailored to each company we do business with. Firstly, as the name suggests - PDQ Furniture. That’s furniture done... Pretty. Damn. Quick. So, if it can’t be delivered and installed in seven days from stock, then we don’t supply it. And if we fail to meet this commitment, we give you the furniture for free. No fuss.
Secondly, we have
a home-working website that we tailor for every corporate client we
deal with. It will have your logo, your chosen products, and will be
matched to your own requested ordering process. So staff can select
their office furniture online, and the furniture is then delivered and
installed within seven days from stock to any UK address.
Thirdly, the price we agree with you is based on the whole home working contract value. So that price is going to be significantly better than your employees buying one-offs themselves.
And fourthly, we also take care of the Health and Safety for each employee. When they order furniture for their home, they are asked to complete a tailored online assessment which is then sent back to the employer to ensure that your obligations have been met.
So the corporate home working service we have developed is quite unique – removing every hurdle that an employer might face in providing office furniture for home workers.
We also think it’s important to support what we do with guarantees. So we have:
Firstly, you want you to know that you’re buying products of quality. So every product is guaranteed for a period of no less than 2 years - some even up to ten.
Secondly, if we are unable to deliver and install within seven days from stock, then you get the furniture for free. No fuss, no quibbles.
Thirdly, clients
want an all-inclusive price. So that’s what we offer. It includes
free spaceplanning, free delivery and free installation - anywhere in
the UK all included in the price.
And fourthly, clients wanted to know that they were getting good value. So we guarantee that you won’t find these products available at a cheaper price anywhere else on the web, or we’ll match that price.
Home working is
a fast expanding area, being taken up by an increasing number of big
employers, and providing furniture is just a part of the employers’
responsibility. But that’s the part that we do well. And we do it…
Pretty. Damn. Quick.
To find out more about our service you can view our demo home worker website here or call us on 0800 567 7875 for more details.