How new infrastructure provided flexibility, controlled cost and empowered workers at Sun Microsystems

Journal of Corporate Real Estate

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 271-279

  Richert, Eric ^a   Rush, David ^a  

^a SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordability; Cross functional integration; Distance collaboration; Employee choice process; Network of places; Remote management; Support infrastructure; Work effectiveness; Work flexibility; Workforce empowerment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993058092     PISSN: 1463001X     EISSN: 14791048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14630010510631045     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Sun Badge-in records for 13,000 Bay Area Engineering, Marketing, and Corporate employees over 39 consecutive workdays
2. Office utilization studies, Sun offices world-wide, 1997-2000. Study durations of 30-90 days for each office.
3. The Suitability Assessment is an on-line tool that assesses best work arrangement based on ability, willingness, and support
4. Work Profile Surveys, 2002
5. Approximately 15,000 employees and 5,000 contractors
6. Sun Employee Value Proposition Survey, February, 2003
7. An ultra-thin client has no local OS, disk, or file storage. All computing occurs at the server.
8. Approximately $24million per year due to lower system administration costs, and $2.8 in lower energy costs through use of the Sun Ray ultra-thin client
9. Percent of all responses that are positive, worldwide, to Sun's annual iWork Scorecard Survey satisfaction questions. Existing (albeit limited) data for key groups, such as engineering employees, indicate that voluntary turnover may be as low as 50% of the Sun average for those groups who have been given some choice of work arrangement.