-- Higher employee retention rates (37 percent)

-- Decrease in employee stress (25 percent)

-- Ability to reduce auto emissions (17 percent)

When asked about the most significant challenges telecommuting presents to organizations, more than half of respondents (53 percent) picked information systems. Notably, most of the challenges respondents ranked the highest were technical, not managerial.

Limiting the use of unauthorized and unsupported devices was the second most significant challenge, cited by 38 percent of respondents, followed by controlling personal use of corporate mobile assets (33 percent); supervising lower-level workers (32 percent); , such as , and Treos, (30 percent); and integrating those devices with other enterprise systems (27 percent).