Archive for the 'Working At Home' Category

Here are tips on How To Recruit Tech Workers From Faraway Places.  Oddly letting them continue to LIVE far away (telecommute) only seemed to come up as an afterthought. Lots of people living in rural areas with skills (or wanting to live there, as long as they had broadband) though would KILL for a job [...]

Now that was a terrible pun wasn’t it?
According to Canada.com Lori Kerpan decided to start up a home based party plan selling pajamas. She calls her business Jammeez Pajama, Etc. Inc., but it’s no longer home based. She’s had to start getting retail space to sell her wares.
What’s she sell that made her business boom [...]

“Web 2.0″ is all the rage these days.
What’s it about and how can you harness Web 2.0 for your home based or small business?
Web 2.0 lets users generate content on an interactive basis.
Some examples:
1) MySpace
2) Blogs
3) Directories
4) Ratings/Reviews Services
5) YouTube
6) Yahoo! Answers
These attract alot of traffic and can become very popular with users… popular sites [...]

The holidays are peak time for gift baskets. EGiftBaskets.com builds websites for people wanting to get into that business. They offer a free ecourse for prospective owners at their website.
From their press release…
The joys and benefits of working from home make eGiftBaskets.com one of the leading home based business opportunities on the web today. [...]

This laid off factory worker is happy now that she was put out of a job. In fact it forced her to learn web design skills and gave her a whole new life and business.  Once laid off she went back to school to learn about computers and photography.
From the Wadena Pioneer Journal
Today, she teaches [...]

This really galls me actually. I will admit that, in theory,  taking work home could increase the risk of a loss of privacy for a patient.
But blabbermouths are a problem wherever… it’s not just a work at home problem.
Yesterday a friend took her niece to court. The girl is 20, had a small speeding ticket [...]

We’ve all seen the orange “U Haul” trucks… they’re all over America.
Did you know they have a huge telecommuting program?
Here’s what the company says about their program as seen on KTAR.com:
U-Haul’s John Ungerer is letting many employees work at home and said their reaction is “thrilled to death.” “All the internet questions and everything [...]

This is from the Poland Employment Law Newsletter in case you’re planning to hire a Polish telecommuter. What? You weren’t? Sorry.
But should you ever PLAN to, realize that teleworking is spreading into the former eastern bloc countries. As in the west, employers seemed to favor it to help reduce overhead costs. This law [...]

I was talking with someone just today from a rural area who hoped to get a home based customer service job using satellite broadband. I was sorry to have to tell them that, as yet, that’s not a workable solution for most work at home jobs in the customer service or medical transcription field.
I wish [...]

If you’re into wonderful, gushing love stories full of romance, then this is the work at home article for you from the Dallas Morning News.
It’s full of romance and stuff like “Blond Single Mom Prays And Man Of Her Dreams Comes Back Into Her Life” … ooohh….aaahhhh.
Now the part that concerns us is that the [...]