Archive for the 'Telecommuting' Category

WCCO.com: St. Paul Workers Prepare To Telecommute During RNC Many downtown workers plan to sit out the convention and avoid the rush by working at home. Major employers like The Traveler’s allow their staff to work at home on their laptop computers. It’s a phenomenon that’s common across the Twin Cities. Some small businesses will [...]

Well, if it’s big enough that is. Coming from Nigeria, I thought it was to enable 10 million notifications hourly that someone in the US had inherited money from somebody they are only related to through Shem, Ham or Japheth, but apparently there are legitimate business uses for data servers in Nigeria. Seriously though, it’s [...]

Make Money Teaching Online:If you’re one of my readers who loved the book Make Money Teaching Online: How to Land Your First Academic Job, Build Credibility, and Earn a Six-Figure Salary, you’ll love this listing of telecommuting Adjunct professors. It’s a current listing of telecommuting adjunct instructors for Kaplan University. Degrees required… plus online teaching [...]

You mean telework isn’t working for everyone? Well, we knew you can’t exactly fight fires from home. You have to show up for that job. Hmmm… where else might telecommuting not work too well. According to the FederalTimes.com one big problem area is when walk in customers can’t get service. Housing and Urban Development lets [...]

As you’ll note from the blurb,  it’s a variety of factors at work – demand for employees, looming exodus of the older “Baby Boomer” generation, the demand to be “environmentally friendly”, etc.  Some places want to cut down on traffic, cut down on the need for real estate for parking garages, etc. Now may be [...]

When we were trying to get high speed internet for my wife’s transcription business, people kept asking us “Can’t you get Verizon’s high speed wireless internet?” For one thing the local reps could never GUARANTEE we’d have access where we live. Knowing phone companies like I do, I didn’t even want to take a test [...]

Joel Kotkin’s article “Suburbia’s Not Dead Yet” was of great interest to me since I just got back from a 5000 mile road trip cross country to see the state of the heart land so to speak. With gas prices soaring (I saw prices as high as $4.23 for unleaded regular with no ethanol), with [...]

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson told his department heads to promote flexible schedules and telework. Sounds like a plan. As Federal and State governments lose Baby Boomers they are going to have to do this anyway to attract younger workers who tend to hate the bureaucracy.  To tolerate the baloney, they’re going to need to [...]

Work from home – Save $38 Billion! A survey by the public-private teleworking partnership Telework Exchange has concluded that encouraging those who can work from home to do so for two days a week, rather than commute into work, would save 9.7 billion gallons of gas or $38.2bn. This is an interesting statistic. Workers certainly [...]

Breitbart: Jack Heacock, senior vice president at the Telework Coalition, a group promoting telecommuting, said the practice is moving beyond traditional areas such as call centers to other industries, even in manufacturing, where technology and service workers may be able to perform tasks from home. “In the last six months we have been getting an [...]