Archive for the 'Telework' Category

Nationwide, state departments of health are planning for deadly flu pandemics. You can go to your state government’s website, click the link to the state Department of Health and go from there. Usually it will be listed under “communicable” diseases. If you can’t find it – call. These plans usually request community involvement and may [...]

Are you a Wi Fi squatter? That’s someone who works from their laptop some place with free Wi Fi, but never patronizes the business. Who are these new cybervagrants trying to get something for nothing? According to one tech expert “They spend the whole day there but only spend three or four dollars worth of [...]

I’ve been putting this off, but I’ve finally decided to put together my own information package of little known, but easy to start business ideas to help people start working at home. Alot of them will be “offline” ideas. There’s a practical reason for that… it means the information won’t be obsolete every time search engines [...]

This is something I’ve been watching unfold as AT&T swallowed up Cingular and Bell South so it could become the huge company it was before it got broken up. Ok, maybe not quite as huge, but pretty big. It has been amazing to see AT&T which seemed to be dying a slow death burst back [...]

Telecommute Connecticut! offers free resources and assistnance to businesses to help them set up alternative workplaces. It’s designed to ease traffic congestion and it’s sponsored by the state’s Department of Transportation. Unlike the Telework Virginia initiative, there doesn’t seem to be any money on the table to pay for the transitions, but the program does [...]

I was just visiting with a lady who started working at home in a call center position. The pay is an hourly base and commission for a major shopping channel. So – she can earn up to $15 per hour! Not too bad for for working at home… especially in rural areas. This is out [...]

What’s the workplace of tomorrow look like? Anyplace where there’s a wireless connection and a flat surface for your laptop. The new term evidently it’s “telecommuter” for these folks… it’s “RAM” – random and mobile workers. What? You can’t be random in a cubicle? One bit of good news for the venerable public library. Everyone [...]

Would you like to get taxed on 200% of your income?  That’s the plight that telecommuters realistically face thanks to states like New York. This state believes it has the right to tax telecommuters for New York companies as if they resided in the state full time. As we’ve mentioned before, a Telecommuter Tax Fairness [...]

In the U.S. the availability of broadband is one important determining factor in the ability of local businesses to offer telework (telecommuting) opportunities or allow individuals to work from home efficiently. Broadbandsuppliers.co.uk allows UK consumers to identify cheap broadband suppliers based on monthly rates and service levels available from the provider. The site functions as a [...]

The Washington Times reports that the private sector is lagging behind the government in allowing staff to telecommute or telework. Forty-four percent of federal employees are allowed to “telework” compared with 15 percent in the private sector, according to a new survey by CDW Government Inc., a government technology provider. In reading this, I believe the [...]