Archive for the 'Telecommuting' Category

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve told you about Alpine Access’ rapid growth. Here’s a job opening for them I’d like to pass along. Here’s part of it. You can read it all here. Payment Solutions Specialist Work from the comfort of your home Agents working this program will be responsible for delivering superior customer service in all customer interactions [...]

This is an excellent post on how to find work at home jobs on Career Builder. My main complaint about them is that lots of “work at home business opportunity” spam lurks in their search results. They tell you how to avoid some of it, at least until the biz op promoters figure out how [...]

From the Nova Scotia News: Prudential Consulting Inc., a Toronto information technology consulting company that also offers computerized medical transcription services to the health-care industry, will set up an Atlantic Canadian division to organize trained medical transcribers to work from home. If the workers complete two years with Prudential Consulting Inc., they would be reimbursed [...]