Archive for the 'Telecommuting' Category

From The Chattanooga Times Free Press
Convergys Corp. will give about 100 Chattanooga-area residents a chance to work from home, company officials announced Tuesday.
The company will begin hiring this week and continue through the end of January, Ms. Maedgen said. The first of about five telecommuter training classes is set to begin Jan. 22.
Employees will complete [...]

1 in 4 Canadians are working at home at least part of the time according to Canada.com
Other findings are that
*The number of workers at home is split between office workers telecommuting and work at home business entrepreneurs
*As the purchase price of a house rises, the house is more likely to have dedicated office space
*One builder [...]

After the 2004 Presidential election, we heard alot about “Red” and “Blue” states and counties.
But does telecommuting hold the potential to change older political demographics?
This opinion piece at least implies the answer is “yes”.
As Blue Leaning Californians with high tech skills find they can migrate to Red leaning states that tend to have lower living [...]

Marcia Passos Duffy of HomeOfficeWeekly.com has been working at home for 10 years.
Amazingly she does this from a relatively slow paced New England town - Keene, New Hampshire to be precise.
So how did she get started?
Here’s her story…
My previous jobs were in New York City working as a writer and account executive for medium-size public relations [...]

From Hospitality.net
By now most people have read or heard about the back-to-back blizzards that brought Denver to its knees over the holidays. The timing was horrible. Just as holiday season travel was getting under way a few days before Christmas, it ground to a halt as the blizzard of 2006 blew into Denver and kept [...]

Alpine Access - a customer service firm that uses a work at home workforce of customer service reps is upgrading their communications systems to utilize Voice over the Internet Protocol in conjuction with Global Crossing. This support’s Alpine Access’ plans to add 500 home based workers in major cities in Florida.
Recently named one of the [...]

Heather Mitchell moved to Bloomsburg PA to help out her husband’s career and stay home with her child.
“The decision to move to Pennsylvania was a very hard one,� Mitchell says. “It was about family and about opportunities for my husband.�
But firm founder John Boudreaux knew he didn’t want to lose the talented architect. So he [...]

Telecommuting? Working at home? Then as the sheer number of your computers grows, you might be interested in setting up a storage network at home. Here’s some tips from Computer World.
With five computers in my home/office, I told myself, the last thing I need is to add a shared network storage device to the clutter. [...]

Will “Voice Recognition” Software eliminate the need for medical transcriptionists? Not if this is to be believed. Even with the software … they need trained medical transcriptionists to work as editors.
I saw it on Craigslist.
Tired of pounding the keyboard? Want to give your wrists and hands a rest? Focus Infomatics, Inc. is hiring US MT-Editors [...]

It’s amazing how the Net is revitalizing a small Texas town. I wonder how many people will find their work at home dreams come true there?
Snyder, Texas 330 miles NW of San Antonio is gambling that Big City workers would rather telecommute from a quaint town that spend their life in the High Occupancy Vehicle [...]