You are required to write a business report with recommendations to management. The report should be based on the information for the fictitious company that is listed on the next page under SCENARIO....

ARCHITECTURE FIRM BUSINESS REPORT
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Architecture Firm Business Report
Preface:
The AKC architectural firm is a midsized firm working in the suburbs of Melbourne. The focus issue at present for AKC is the issues of massive absenteeism from the staff of the company. Some of the reasons for high absenteeism include staff needing to stay at home to look after children at home as well they also need to attend for the school related activities as well. Considering all these aspects, the management of AKC is looking for an optional scheme of flexible work culture in the organization. In this regard, the firm wanted staff to work from home. The following part of the report is presented in this regard including the staff from both the administration and architectural staff as well. The key objective of the report is to investigate whether the firm can support the staff working from home (De Menezes and Kelliher 2017, P.1060).
Investigation Report:
(i) As of now the AKC architectural firms is purely a routine organization, where the staff are working from 10 to 5 or in the special occasions they do work overtime to meet the tighter deadlines. As of now the firm has never opted for flexible work system and hence there is no any software there available in the organization that can be accessed online for working from home. Hence there is need to either enable the running accounting software and other operational software with internet or alternatively it may be required to employ altogether different customized software for managing the operations of AKC. It is the situation of workers changed priorities. Most of the workers are now absenting from the work, as they have priorities like need to take care of their sick children, need to attend for the needs of the children etc. In this context, the AKC management wanted to create an alternative work procedure for not to lose the profits for the organization by employing an arrangement of working from home. Since each of these employees are associated with the organization for long time, their loss from the work is not worth losing, hence organization is looking for alternative ways of letting the workers for the organization.
(ii) It is required to provide access to this software as well it is also required to provide laptops or other PC support to the staff. Hence it needs to purchase the same. PCs and laptops will facilitate the access to the organization IT resources while staying in home, provided they have access to internet. In such situation, they can simply login into their portfolios and will work to settle their due diligence. In all such instances they will work to meet their obligations as well will also work for the company. However since all the employees do not have laptops and PCs. Employees need to be provided with the same based on their specific work needs. Also a software to integrate their operations and a mechanism to present with monitoring of their activities is needed, organization will get outcomes from the same.
(iii) Typical cost savings for the firm include work days increase by most of the staff who are now absenting from work. Actually speaking in this situation will result in several indirect advantages to the organization, as most of the staff is excellent and experienced staff and if they do attend the organization regularly it can result in better profits for the company, as the company will be good in reaching the delivery times as well, meeting the set objectives will be assured. In all these aspects the firm will work for cost savings as well will also work for betterment of the image and the performance reputation in the market, by taking up these measures.
(iv) There are few tax benefits as well if the employees work from home regularly, if the...