Archive for the 'Telecommuting' Category

Thursday May 15th marks the 3rd UK National Work from Home Day
From TMCnet
National Work from Home Day is organised by Work Wise UK, a national not-for-profit initiative to promote “smarter” working practices - such as flexible, remote and mobile working, and working from home. It aims
to give half the working population, some 14 million, […]

Lifehacker has some good points … use the word “Telework” instead of “Telecommute”. They have a slightly important difference. One emphasizes your working, the other sounds like a vacation.
Know why your boss is afraid to let  you do that so you can answer objections. For that they recommend this article from Web Worker Daily.
They also […]

Frank Michael Russell from the Mercury News waxes eloquent on why you might want to start telecommuting from Paris these days thanks to rising costs on the west coast.
Yay, America! Yes, our economy has been struggling, and yes, our dollar has been lagging against the euro, the British pound and even the Canadian dollar. […]

Don’t let all the GOOD NEWS go to your head. Undress 4 Success has a good post on Recession Good News For Telecommuters.
The theory is that belt tightening corporations will let more people work at home and telecommute to save money on real estate, utilities, and other overhead.
Another trend is that there’s fear of a […]

From Government Executive

The House Oversight and Government Reform Federal Workforce Subcommittee on Thursday passed legislation aimed at increasing chances for federal employees to telecommute.
The Telework Improvement Act of 2007 (H.R. 4106) passed 3-0 on a voice-vote at a sparsely attended hearing. The bill requires that all federal agencies create telework polices and develop programs to […]

Liveops.com  continues to grow. Their expectation is that most companies won’t want to have their own “in house” call center operations. That distracts from their core business. They’re hoping most companies will prefer to outsource that work to them.

From DestinationCRM.com
The age of companies housing their contact center operations all under one roof is […]

State governments are getting into the act in high traffic areas by promoting tax credit programs to promote teleworking.  It seems to be popular wherever it’s tried. Businesses love tax credits!
See the article at AJC
Last month, the Georgia Department of Revenue announced that 135 employers have been approved to take tax credits in 2008 for […]

A survey designed to gauge interest in raising taxes to add lanes to the local highway network found out something interesting.
Besides the fact that most people STRONGLY opposed the new proposed taxes, 26% of survey respondents say they telecommute! Somehow that came as a surprise to people even though California is one of the more […]

It used to be that you went to the city and you worried about being assaulted by panhandlers. You figured the people in business attire were people who you could do business with.
But now the freeloaders are wearing business suits and “squatting” - not on a vent to capture the heat, but in the upscale […]

Here’s how this great work at home business idea got started…
From BoomTownUSA
Who would be better to teach English to foreigners than native born Americans, was an idea that Kent Holiday and his wife had when they met in Seoul, Korea. Marry that idea with the increase in broadband connectivity and you could probably do […]