Could “Snowmageddon”, as President Obama has dubbed the storm that shut down Washington, help employers (or, dare to dream, the federal government) see the light when it comes to the benefits of telecommuting? Shutting down the federal government costs $100 million a day in lost productivity.
Not likely if we’re talking about the government. [...]
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Working from home doesn’t always have to mean working at home. My husband reminded me recently that I can work from anywhere I want. Although it’s terribly convenient to work from my home most of the time, sometimes a change of scenery is just what’s needed.
I hate to admit this, but sometimes I [...]
While in the grocery store line today, I ran into a mom that I hadn’t seen in quite a while. We both have two kids and our oldest are just one year apart. They used to be in girl scouts together. I asked her what she’d been up to and she told [...]
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Sheryl Hefner, director of management operations, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, began telecommuting to help cope with an unexpected health crisis. She was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease, which required her to spend a month in the hospital followed by six months of chemotherapy. Her department sent a computer-support specialist to Hefner’s home [...]
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Could it be that the cubicle dweller is on the endangered species list? Current workplace trends seem to point that way. With the economic nosedive comes an increased need for companies to cut costs. This has driven the number of telecommuters up in a big way.
After employees, real estate is the second-biggest expense for many [...]
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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 forecast from [...]
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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 in [...]
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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.
Cherniak says [...]
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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 led [...]
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