Archive for the 'Telework' Category

They’re 70 million strong and so used to having their own way they it’s downright annoying. But they have skills and employers need them. In fact, the futurist guru’s say there’ll be a huge shortage of workers (10 million or so) within the next 20 years.
Generation Y is  so mobile, they may - quite unintentionally [...]

When you talk to most people in government economic development settings they universally think “work at home jobs” are universally “scams”. I guess that will have change now that the State of Virginia is actually creating some work at home jobs.
In order to bring new jobs to areas of high unemployment, the State of Virginia [...]

Ryan Kim at the San Francisco Chronicle writes about a cool new service from Hewlett-Packard today.
This will make it easy for people who work away from home, office, or printer to continue to work without lugging a printer along.
More mobility normally means either more enjoyment of work or the opportunity to earn more [...]

Most of the work at home opportunities I’m familiar with require the rep to purchase their own broadband and landline service and deduct the costs from their income tax return.
Evidently that’s not always true according to this research.
From Silicon.com
This begs the question - who then pays for the home broadband and who is responsible for [...]

People rightly have come to love Skype.
A recent outage of the service left folks scratching their heads however because so many have become dependent on the service for their lives and home based businesses.
So what happened?
According to the Silicon Valley Business Journal, Skype blames it on all you users restarting your computer after downloading an [...]

This is a well written and well researched article on LiveOps.com that confirms what I’ve written before but is worth the read if you’re interested in the home call center world. Again, here’s another article mentioning the $7 to $20 per hour figure for working at home with the company… if you are good with [...]

According to Business Week British workers yearn to telecommute.
A survey of more than 1,000 white collar workers, commissioned by mobile phone operator T-Mobile, has found many believe they would be more productive– and creative — if they could work in different locations.
Nearly half (48 per cent) of workers surveyed said a change of scene [...]

Arise.com is a well known name in the home based call center business. Their representatives are required to create their own business entities (S Corp or LLC) to work for the firm. That makes it absolutely clear that the call center reps are not “employees”.
It’s nice to hear about real people who work for the [...]

I’ve found a number of references to telework and telecommuting in the most unlikely places… the weather reports!
As the summer temperatures spike and people with breathing problems are urged to stay indoors, the weather reporters are urging folk to “telecommute” to work if possible!
I never thought I’d hear that. Or have to wade through so [...]

Tory Johnson on ABC goes into some interesting information about the most common stumbling blocks to not getting that online job.
The biggest problem may be taking assessments remotely… somehow they seem “unreal”. But they’re very real to the company. If you can’t read the practice scripts with enthusiasm and friendliness to get hired, they’re pretty [...]