One way to increase your chances of working at home is to be open to making some sacrifices. Rather than focusing on finding the perfect work at home job, think about changes you could make to widen the net. Take a pay cut. A recent Citrix Online report on “the World Wide Workplace” cited a [...]
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An executive at a small start up figured out how working at home could save their foundering company. At one point in my career I found my self Chief Information Officer of a small start up company, struggling to make ends meet. We were burning $50,000.00 to $75,000.00 per month and not quite making that [...]
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An Aetna spokesman says the company is training workers in its Dover, Delaware claim center to work from home. The center has 169 employees who process claims and service national accounts. Spokesman Walt Cherniak said this week that having people work from home will allow the company to retain staff and reduce real estate costs. [...]
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VITAC is hiring Realtime Captioners! VITAC is the nation’s leading provider of closed captions, subtitling and other accessible media services. What is realtime captioning? Realtime broadcast captioning has traditionally been used by the deaf and hard-of-hearing to allow viewers to read what is being spoken. In addition to this core audience, viewers who benefit from [...]
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Whenever I meet new people, it seems that when I tell them what I do they inevitably ask how I came to work at home. It occurs to me that hearing stories about how people ended up working from home would be not only interesting, but also might help others to find their way [...]
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Some employers are very resistant to the idea of allowing their employees to telecommute. This quote comes from a white paper on teleworking called Worldwide Workplace: The Web Commuting Imperative, which is a fascinating study on the evolving trend to what they call the location independent workplace. It gave me a good chuckle. When I [...]
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Increased telework can reduce congestion on Twin Cities metropolitan freeways, save money for businesses and motorists and positively impact the environment. That is the goal of a new program announced today by the University of Minnesota in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Transportation. If 2,700 Minnesotans teleworked just one day per week, more than [...]
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