Archive for the 'Working At Home' Category

The Federal Government is a pioneer in the work at home movement in some ways. But check out this bad report from the VA: Unfortunately telework employees are not free there from workplace harassment. According to this allegation, work at home employees are required to be MORE PRODUCTIVE than office based employees! “Last year, at [...]

Usually the problem with work at home businesses is isolation, lack of resources, inability to achieve “economies of scale”,etc. Yesterday, someone lead me to check out this entry at Wikipedia on the Mondragon Corporation. It’s like no “corporation” you’re used to hearing about. Started in 1956 with 5 employee owners, in under 50 years, quite [...]

This an Employer’s perspective from Fox Small Business Center: According to a survey by Microsoft (MSFT), small and medium business owners cite security and productivity losses as reasons for not allowing remote shifts. But letting employees work from somewhere other than the office may not only save money on overhead, experts say it can actually [...]

Work At Home Vintage Employees is a staffing firm that specializes in hiring remote staff for insurance agencies. Work At Home Vintage Employees (WAHVE) says its business model is to employ skilled insurance industry retirees located throughout the United States to provide services that enable agencies and brokers to significantly improve profitability. WAHVE says it [...]

Connecticut hopes to reduce costs and perhaps some insanity by expanding telecommuting. When you read an illustration like this, it really makes sense: Donna Seresin was driving in circles every day. Her job at the Department of Environmental Protection required that she travel each day from her home in New Haven to clock in at [...]

The Sydney Morning Herald ran this article recently Working from home increases productivity. It’s designed to dispel the myth that home based workers really spend their time goofing off, watching TV, doing chores, etc. It also discusses proper metrics for evaluating the results from working from home. I’m not disagreeing with it in theory, mind [...]

Futurity’s article Can telecommuting put the brakes on a career? is worth reading because it cites an actual study (not merely anecdotal griping) In a pair of studies—one involving in-depth interviews with office workers and another using a behavioral experiment—Elsbach and colleagues found that being present at the workplace gives an employee an important edge. [...]

Poll: West Palm employees not big on telecommuting Why don’t people in this sophisticated area want to telecommute? Here’s one explanation… Jeff Zbar, a work-at-home advocate out of Boca Raton who operates chiefhomeofficer.com, said he’s not surprised that West Palm Beach would be low on Microsoft’s list. Many cities that ranked higher have more established [...]

Is not commuting driving you crazy? Check this out – could working at home drive you nuts? After much arguing, wheedling, and cajoling, I finally convinced my boss that — thanks in large part to all the gee-whiz technology we have now — I could work at home and be even more productive than I [...]

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