Archive for the 'Telework' Category

Whenever I drive down to Florida or the beach, I tend to see lots of Canadian license plates. I guess this is one I won’t be seeing, unless she’s on vacation of course. From The Sault Star Sheila Hatherley makes it into her Connecticut office two or three times a year tops. The rest of [...]

RuralEx is a new telecommunications service provider based in Saskatoon Canada. As you can read in this article about RuralEx the company’s purpose, in part, is to provide home based call center jobs in this rural section of Canada. Here’s how the owner describes what’s going on: Weber is planning to tap into a somewhat [...]

This post is inspired by a 39 year old’s aging crisis as 40 approaches. Will 39 year olds turn to telecommuting in droves now to save their appearance? I doubt it. Here’s the so-called plan: From The Joplin Globe Remodel a treadmill into a machine you never have to get off of. We could call [...]

From Dane’s Blog Web Worker Daily: Do you dream of working from home? Flexibly blending the professional with the personal? Working hours that suit you instead of following some old-fashioned nine-to-five schedule? All in an environment that you arrange so it suits your needs and temperament? Then you’ll want to download and read “Work from [...]

Like an ape with a new banana, I have suddenly seized on the term “Co Working” thanks to my post on Office Nomads and I wanted to learn more. To do that I went to the Co Working Wiki and clicked on a region in the US. I found a place where wannabe co-workers can [...]

OfficeNomads.com is shared office space for people who’d otherwise work from home or at a coffee shop. But what if you want a place with some office amenities but not lots of cost and you’re sloshing from all the coffee? Then you may like what this fellow has: Marketing consultant Chris Haddad has found a [...]

Charles Schwab plans big job shift out of San Francisco. Charles Schwab will move jobs out of San Francisco over the next few years, seeking to reduce its office space here and boost its presence in less expensive places. The company plans to eliminate about 30 percent, or 1,400, of its “seats” in San Francisco [...]

We list articles like this from time to time to help you find work at home. This is a recent article from CNN/Careebuilder listing some places. This is slightly different than the lists we’ve seen before. So for your reading pleasure… • Alpine Access: A call center company that uses home-based customer service representatives to [...]

The Federal Government is on the cutting edge of telework for a variety of reasons. They are battling their own governmental culture that values keeping everything  under their noses. But that is being degraded by their own policies of promoting telework throughout the government system. Arbitrator Orders ATF To Let Examiners Telework The Bureau of [...]

I ran across this at Business Wire. Now folks whose paperwork took 7 days takes a few hours. That’s amazing. I wonder if the part about working at home is a new development that this technology facilitates or if they worked at home under the old arrangement? The North Texas chapter of Big Brothers Big [...]