Archive for January 4th, 2006

  • IRS Simplifies Tax Filing Requirements for Small Employers

    While most work at home businesses are solo or family businesses, I used to run a wah business with a single non-family employee.
    So perhaps this IRS update relates to you this year:
    WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today issued temporary and proposed regulations that will significantly reduce tax filing burden for nearly 950,000 small business [...]

  • Graduates Prefer Online Stores To Coventional Jobs

    From China Daily
    Work begins each day with a click of a mouse for 25-year-old graduate Jing Jing, an assumed name.
    Her world is filled with the sort of buzzwords that send technophobes round the bend - like e-commerce, C2C (customer-to-customer) retail and SOHO - Small-Office / Home-Office.
    Instead of getting a so-called proper job when [...]

  • Failing TV Station Turns To “Reality” Programming And Reporters Working From Home

    From MediaChannel.org
    KRON San Francisco hopes that by cutting out editors and giving everybody a digital video recorder, their news broadcasts will resemble “reality TV” and help them regain their Neilsen ratings.
    Though one benefit to the reporters under this arrangement is that they’re allowed to work from home, that benefit doesn’t seem to mollify folks who [...]

  • Connecting Parents To Family Friendly Jobs

    From the Boston Herald
    Did you know women with infants are one of the fastest-growing segments in the U.S. workforce? According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 31 percent of mothers with children under a year old worked in 1976; this number grew to 55 percent in 2002.
    Responding to the need [...]

  • 25 Years In Successfully Self-Employed - Marcia Yudkin

    Marcia Yudkin’s celebrating her 25 years of successful self-employment by boiling down some things she’s learned…“Insights From 25 Years in Business”.
    Here are the first 2 installments…
    Lesson #1: Your first big success contains clues to a dynamic that comes easily to you.
    Figure out how to harness that strength, give it a good run on a regular [...]