Archive for the 'Telework' Category

It’s not a crystal ball, but the slideshow offers an interesting snapshot of telework in 2007.
There are lots of interesting statistics here. I’ve listed a smattering below, but there are lots more at the slideshow.
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Only 17% of telecommuters are single/never married? Only 8% are separated or divorced?
37% of teleworkers serve firms with 100 [...]

It’s the Politicians of New York against the Telecommuter again. The state already levies New York state income tax against out of state telecommuters who are forced to pay in their own state as well.
Now New York City is seeking $500 million in federal grant dollars for mass transit to limit traffic congestion in high [...]

Working from home is catching on in China according to the Maylaysia Star.
SANDY Liang is the mother of a four-year-old girl living in Guangzhou. Like many others in the city, she gets up at seven in the morning and drives her daughter to her kindergarten before she gets to work. But that’s where the [...]

Big companies know that Americans are resentful of outsourcing and offshoring. So when they do it, they hide it as cleverly as possible according to the Phoenix Business Journal
Instead of shipping 500 U.S. jobs to Bangladore or Chennai all at once and enduring media criticism as well as displaced or anxious American workers, U.S. companies [...]

Want a simpler life, simpler times? A new rural village to be developed in 2008 promises that: Simpler Times Village.
From Alyssa Farah
Part of the Brown’s vision for Simpler Times includes encouraging small, home-based businesses.
“Supporting small businesses is a big part of our vision for Simpler Times Village,” says Sarah Brown. “We feel like it’s very [...]

Alpine Access, provider of home based call center workers to industry announced June 21st that they were hiring for 100 positions in Green Bay and Milwaukee Wisconsin to serve new and existing clients.
Alpine Access, the premier provider of contact center solutions for brand-conscious companies, announced today that the [...]

The study’s headline caught my eye. But the details made me yawn. Here’s why:
Working from home may be slightly more lucrative than commuting to the office.
Aside from the obvious cost savings — burning less gasoline, spending less on eating out and having smaller clothing budgets, for example — a survey of Bureau of Labor Statistics [...]

Telecommuters feel out of the loop and at a disadvantage at the office when it comes to promotions, pay raises, and other perks. To compensate and just get things done better, you can help yourself by building your water cooler network.

These are especially useful if your work at home or telework ends up being at a Starbucks or other place your laptop is at risk.
From Score.org and Hewlett-Packard
*Use passwords. Secure the network by setting strong passwords. Set the ability to remotely lock down or wipe the laptop if the user repeatedly fails to enter [...]

From Web Worker Daily

1. Know what you can do in what circumstances. Given that you could be interrupted at any point in time and have to move your work location, understand what in your current workload can be done and be prepared to shift to those things when necessary.
2.Try to work only with tools [...]