Archive for the 'Telecommuting' Category

But Canadian business and government is behind Japan and the U.S. in adopting the practice.
Business Edge

About 1.5 million Canadians work from home, at least occasionally, says Bob Fortier, president of the Canadian Telework Association and InnoVisions Canada in Manotick, Ont., a half hour from Ottawa.
That’s a far cry from Japan’s target - it wants 20 [...]

Home business, small business, and entrepreneurship are being fueled by the growing insecurity of employment. It’s a global trend, as this U.N. report suggests. People want to purchase projects, not sustain employees. Young people are especially being hard hit.
From the International Herald Tribune
Young people are increasingly unable to get a foothold in the global labor [...]

If your company is new to the idea of telecommuting and you’re proposing the change after a significant life change like the birth of a newborn or the sickness of an elderly relative, your boss(es) may suspect you won’t get as much work done as they wish.
When you’re making the proposal, be sure to stress [...]

The state of Virginia is seeing growth come so fast that the roads literally can’t keep up. I’ve mentioned the Telework VA program before. It’s a response to this trend. Telecommuting or Telework is absolutely essential to northern and eastern Virginia’s continued economic growth. Complicating things is the already tight job market in the area [...]

Home based Telecom Reps can now make money selling DisneyMobile ™ products.
Cognigen Home Based Reps can make money by directing them to their free, best cell phone deals page. 
Then clicking on “selecting other carriers� on your Wireless page their customers can see the new, hot-selling Disney phone.  This phone package is very popular for families as it offers a full [...]

This is a perfect example of why more parents are seeking to work at home. This report comes from the UK, but the economics are similar in the US.
Assuming husband and wife earn the same amount of money, then 33% of total household income consumes two-thirds or 66% of the income from one the workers! [...]

One of the benefits of telecommuting or working at home is being free from the “epidemics” that can sweep through an office building or school (some schools near me are using “snow days” to shut down as “flu days” since we have no snow problems but massive flu problems this year!)
But everybody has to go [...]

For the last week or so I’ve been seeing a survey picked up by one media service after another. Basically they were all saying “People who telecommute are out of sight, out of mind, won’t advance in their careers, etc.”
The message has been “telecommuters are shooting themselves in the foot” because they’re not in the [...]

The BBC reports that Canadian researchers have recreated the “Spanish Flu” virus of 1918… It killed an estimated 50 million people in the days when passenger airliners didn’t exist to spread the disease even faster.
They hoped to identify what made it so deadly so that a future pandemic might be avoided.
One of the widely talked [...]

The Heartland Institute discussed a Utah plan that would give employees (but not seemingly their employers) an incentive to telecommute. The rationale is that they need a way to financially compensate for the extra traffic and congestion in Salt Lake City during peak traffic hours. And if you’re just a visitor who wanders in by accident, don’t [...]