Archive for June, 2010

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Gas 7 Cents Per Gallon… it’s true. A gas station in Antioch TN (near Nashville) is going to sell gasoline for 7 cents per gallon for two hours on Saturday 6/19/2010. Are they crazy? No, they’re just “crazy like a fox”… here’s why: The stunt is being bankrolled by Common Cents Mobile, a pre-paid wireless [...]

Want to know in general where people are moving to your country FROM or moving from your county TO? Check out this interactive map from Forbes. If you can identify mass migrations you may be able to market services to these people by “meeting them at the front door” when they enter your county so [...]

Her work day might begin at 9AM. It could end at 10PM. She’s a program manager with IBM. But that doesn’t stop her from training enough to run marathons at age 50. I’m sort of ashamed. I don’t have the discipline to even work out at home in the Air Conditioning, let alone run a [...]

Feeling inefficient? Here’s a brand new list of 100 Innovative Ways to Enhance Your Home Office… Fortunately, the list has some variety… there are suggestions for improving your productivity in a variety of areas: 1. Technology 2. Comfort and Convenience 3. Organization 4. Design 5. Lighting 6. Clutter issues 7. Feng Shui 8. “Green” 9. [...]

Seth Godin’s got a thought provoking piece called Goodbye to the Office Why do people “go to the office” anyway? For about the same reason most churches have services at 11:00 AM… that used to be the time the farm chores like milking cows and gathering eggs were done, folks had time for breakfast, and [...]

Work At Home Vintage Employees is a staffing firm that specializes in hiring remote staff for insurance agencies. Work At Home Vintage Employees (WAHVE) says its business model is to employ skilled insurance industry retirees located throughout the United States to provide services that enable agencies and brokers to significantly improve profitability. WAHVE says it [...]

Connecticut hopes to reduce costs and perhaps some insanity by expanding telecommuting. When you read an illustration like this, it really makes sense: Donna Seresin was driving in circles every day. Her job at the Department of Environmental Protection required that she travel each day from her home in New Haven to clock in at [...]

The Sydney Morning Herald ran this article recently Working from home increases productivity. It’s designed to dispel the myth that home based workers really spend their time goofing off, watching TV, doing chores, etc. It also discusses proper metrics for evaluating the results from working from home. I’m not disagreeing with it in theory, mind [...]

Futurity’s article Can telecommuting put the brakes on a career? is worth reading because it cites an actual study (not merely anecdotal griping) In a pair of studies—one involving in-depth interviews with office workers and another using a behavioral experiment—Elsbach and colleagues found that being present at the workplace gives an employee an important edge. [...]