Archive for 2007

We list articles like this from time to time to help you find work at home. This is a recent article from CNN/Careebuilder listing some places. This is slightly different than the lists we’ve seen before. So for your reading pleasure… • Alpine Access: A call center company that uses home-based customer service representatives to [...]

Financial Times: Leisure time to emerge as powerful trend, economist suggests My first reaction to the headline was “Duh”! Then I remembered one definition of “economist”…. someone hired to make predictions yet who is never held accountable for their accuracy. So I kept reading. Evidently, one of these “economists” says, having leisure time will become [...]

Not if your employer is based in New York, but absent that problem it might be. In addition to any salary and benefits you might have, if you CAN work at home you are… Possibly spending less on travel, eating out, and wardrobe which weren’t likely tax deductible before. This is must money in your [...]

Home businesses used to be fairly limited in their scope. You typed at home, you did medical transcription at home, you did word processing at home. Get the picture? Or you said you “worked at home” when you really did network marketing but were a bit ashamed of it way back when because it meant [...]

I marvel at these big newspapers and other media outlets. They tend to be extremely left of center in their news reporting and so, by definition, “claim” to care about the the “little guy”. So when they need to save money – what do they do? Many publishers source out copy editing to home based [...]

People who work at home or work at a “third place” remind themselves in different ways about getting things done. If you’re in front of a computer screen all day, then using a calendar program – like one in Microsoft Outlook – makes sense because it reminds you about upcoming appointments, tasks, etc.  It’s so [...]

The Federal Government is on the cutting edge of telework for a variety of reasons. They are battling their own governmental culture that values keeping everything  under their noses. But that is being degraded by their own policies of promoting telework throughout the government system. Arbitrator Orders ATF To Let Examiners Telework The Bureau of [...]

Crain’s Detroit Business article on Second career: Buyouts fuel entrepreneurship, but be wary of pitfalls is necessary reading for anyone in a corporate setting who’s facing a “retirement buyout”. This man invested his buyout in starting a business from home. It was his own business, not a business package evidently, and his results. Lower level [...]

I ran across this at Business Wire. Now folks whose paperwork took 7 days takes a few hours. That’s amazing. I wonder if the part about working at home is a new development that this technology facilitates or if they worked at home under the old arrangement? The North Texas chapter of Big Brothers Big [...]

Here’s the press release from Nunomad.com, a Web Based Community For Nomadic Professionals. An emerging group of professionals and entrepreneurs is realizing that through technology, they are able not only to telecommute but to do so from exotic locations such as Thailand, Costa Rica, or Denmark. Thousands are discovering that they can maintain the levels [...]