Everyone dreams of the advantages of working from home: the additional flexibility; the time saved by not commuting (or …
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The Rise of the Remote Worker, or How to Work from Home Without Getting Fired
Is heading to the office necessary anymore? According to a Cisco study, 70% of college students and young professionals say no. Increasingly, and perhaps surprisingly, employers seem to agree. Studies show that 45% of the U.S. …
Snow Day, Schmo Day. Get to Work!
Schools are closed. Flights are cancelled. The federal government is shut down. But you? You’re still expected to get your job done, just at home rather than the office. For many workers, a fun little perk—which used to come in the form of an unexpected vacation day due to a big snowfall—is long gone thanks to telecommuting. Gotta …
What’s Better Than a Raise?
Something that you actually have a prayer of getting. Sure, you could ask your boss to give you a bump up in pay, but good luck with that in today’s work environment. If you actually want to walk away with something after negotiations with your employer, try asking for these perks instead.
Does telecommuting save energy?
As the mercury hovers around 100 this afternoon, my colleague Jim Poniewozik over at Tuned In writes in an e-mail:
So telecommuting is supposed to be much better for the environment, right? But is it on high-energy use days like today? Working at home, I’m not using fuel to commute, but then again the subway is running regardless. And
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How bosses can go telecommuter-friendly
So you’re a manager trying to fill a key position. You’ve just met the ideal candidate: smart as heck, snappy sense of humor, exactly the skill set and experience needed for the post. You make an offer. He grins his likable grin and says: “I’d love to take this job. But I would insist on working mostly from home.”
If the notes I’m …
Survey: gas prices change the commute
These past two weeks, I’ve been saving a boatload of money. How? I’m working from home. True, the primary reason is to better accommodate my acute hugeness of gut as I hover like a freak-show bumblebee near my due date. But my telecommuting stint coincides very nicely with the startling spike in gas prices.
I speculated in an earlier …
Best cities for telecommuting
I don’t know. The idea behind a list like this puzzles me. Isn’t the point of telecommuting that you could do it from anywhere? Why would Silver Spring, Md., be a better telecommuting hub than Naples, Fla.? Maybe it’s a little more pleasant to hang with a laptop on the beaches of Malibu, but if your cozy home office is located in a split …
Price of gas could force telecommuting revolution—at last
I can think of a dozen really solid reasons Americans should embrace telecommuting. Working from home instead of at a remote office frees up hours of time every day. That extra time eases our stress and makes us better employees and citizens. It also gentles our impact on the environment, on city services, on bridges, tunnels and roads. …
Work at home + high-pressure career = happiness
It sounds like the arithmetic of a delusional person, right? It’s real math for a Chicago couple called the Mayvilles. They’re profiled today in the McClatchy newspapers (I read the piece in Rochester, Minn.’s Post-Bulletin), in what for me was a really uplifting, informative story about people making work work.
The Mayvilles have two …
Nothin’ virtual about working from home
In my trolling for work-at-home job boards (see post below), I noticed a lot of references to so-called virtual workers. This term bugs me. So I hereby am lodging an objection.
Today I am working from home. I suppose if you are just learning to use the Google and the World Wide Interweb, you might insist on calling me a virtual worker. …
My hunt for work-at-home job boards—and pie
Whenever I post about telecommuting or working from home, I hear a bunch of smack from those of you who’d like to do just that. So I should point you to a short Q&A in The Wall Street Journal in Sue Shellenbarger’s column on how to find just such a job. The questioner asks:
Question: I saw your story on how more employers are hiring
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