Can Home Working Save The Planet?

A new report for the Smith Institute and the Live Work Network shows how remote working - and home working in general - cuts carbon emissions.

How homes can become workspace in a low carbon economy is edited by Tim Dwelly and Andy Lake of the Live Work Network and includes the thoughts of leading world experts (including World Wildlife Fund policy adviser Denis Pamlin and BT head of policy Caroline Waters) on the environmental impact of the shift to home working and live/work property.

Live Work Network is a membership organisation for everyone with an interest in providing live/work units - properties that combine workplace and home. They believe they are the UK's sole information service on live/work. As well as running this resourceful website, they also hold seminars, keep members in touch with email newsletters, and offer fast track referrals, linking members with others they can learn from and share knowledge.

Chapters include in-depth comparison of carbon emissions by home workers and office workers, new statisticts from Strathclyde University on home based businesses, ideas for low carbon live/work developments and ways employers can benefit from a shift to home working.
Responding to this news, Paula Wynne, co-founder and Director of Remote Employment, an online home working network said: “This report shows that there are more efficient, productive, and greener ways of working. Small businesses should be more proactive in tackling climate change and reduce costs through reducing their energy consumption. Home working is one way to achieve this.”
Remote Employment is dedicated to flexible jobs working from home, work from home jobs, and home based business and home based franchise opportunities and they are extremely proud of their recent BT Global Action Plan ‘Responsible Business Day’ Award.
From a national search, Remote Employment impressed judges with their passion and determination to understand and reduce their current impact on both the environment and society.

Remote Employment agree with Live Work Network that the case for home working goes beyond the proven environmental benefits. There are also other tangible advantages to both employees and employers from working at home. With commutes becoming ever longer and more unpleasant, home working offers the opportunity for a much less stressful working experience and a better work-life balance.

Individuals can work more flexibly, while cutting out the need to commute regularly gives people more free time. The authors of this new report also provide evidence that there are real savings for businesses by reducing the need for valuable office space, as well as higher levels of workforce satisfaction, improved staff retention and reduced absenteeism.
The trend is towards more home working and greater flexibility, with new technologies allowing individuals to connect their homes to the global marketplace. These changes are transforming society and present new challenges to the way we live and work. The report’s collection of essays examines these challenges up close, and concludes that there are lasting individual and collective benefits by moving to a more environmentally friendly home working economy.

Flexible working, which includes an ability to work from home flexibly and to structure hours more around the needs of family life, should not be confused with making a substantial reduction to our carbon footprints as workers. This is because most home working employees are only temporarily away from their ‘main workspace’ - a building that remains fuelled day and night (and had to be constructed in the first place).

The carbon benefits of employees’ occasionally home working are likely to be relatively small. If however, employers use the potential of home working to reduce or remove their office or workspace infrastructure, as some employers like BT are increasingly doing, then significant benefits can flow.

Contributors to the 115 page report include Treasury adviser Kate Barker, Places for People Group chief executive David Cowans, World Wildlife Fund policy adviser Denis Pamlin, BT head of policy Caroline Waters and CABE chief executive Richard Simmons.
Acknowledged carbon expert, Professor Peter James, reveals key data on the net carbon benefits of home working compared to ordinary office working. The report includes a comparison of carbon emissions by home workers and office workers as well as ways in which employers can benefit from a shift to home working.

Tim Dwelly said: "This brings home the critical importance of live/work and home-based business to the future low carbon economy. We simply cannot go on assuming that commuting between separate homes and workspaces will remain the norm. We are no longer in the industrial era. With over 40% of all UK businesses now home-based and numbers likely to rise in the downturn, it is time for policymakers to urgently review their approach to employment and business and recognise the potential contribution of the live/work part of the UK economy."
For more information, browse www.remoteemployment.com or download the full report here.

Karen Darby's Top Tips for Business Success

There are literally thousands of business opportunities for entrepreneurs and small business owners to develop. Choosing a home based business that allows you flexibility and convenience can also be rewarding.

Evaluating and building your work at home business opportunity into a successful business can be one of the most exciting activities in your career!

Karen Darby shared her top tips for business success at The National everywoman Conference 2008.

Here is a summary of Karen's top tips:


Do what you love
Create a white hot burning desire
Create leverage – commit to doing something with determination
Maintain a laser beam focus on your business idea
Use someone else's money – seek funding opportunities
Be a rhino – learn how to handle rejection
Employ smart people + network like crazy – surround yourself with a strong team
Be enthusiastic
Live the brand – you are the best possible PR for your company
Give yourself a check up form the neck up on a regular basis
Hypnotize yourself – tell yourself you're wonderful and your ideas are wonderful
Know when not to listen – especially to negative comments
Double your failure rate
And finally…

Remember timing is everything!

Karen Darby's Hints for Beating Unemployment

Responding to the announcement that the number of people out of work in the UK has jumped by 140,000 to 1.82 million, the highest in 11 years, Karen Darby of SimplySwitch fame says it is not all ‘doom and gloom’ and gives her suggestions for finding the right job, despite the hike in unemployment.

Even though Karen sold SimplySwitch for £22m to the Daily Mail, she was also once in the same situation as many thousands of UK workers. Karen Darby, who is a highly successful and inspirational entrepreneur, had a classic ‘rags to riches’ story. One of five children, Karen grew up on a council estate in Mitcham and left school at 16 with one GCSE.

Before seizing her entrepreneurial spirit, Karen worked in a supermarket, a florist and a fish and chips shop. Her determination to find a job often made her walk from Mitcham to Croydon in search of employment – and she never went home until she found a job. Even though she sold her her third and most successful venture to date, SimplySwitch to the Daily Mail for £22m, she was once one of millions of people walking the streets to find a job.

Here Karen gives her top tips for finding the right job in today’s depressed employment market.

Learn and keep learning
Use this time as an ideal opportunity to think hard about what you want out of life. Take control of your destiny. Many people allow themselves to drift along and stay in the rut. Karen is a great believer that we should do what we love and the opportunities will follow. She says: “You can put a square peg in a round hole. You simply have to shave the edges off.”

Do Your Research
Apply to numerous jobs and be proactive. Go online and find out about the company. If the business interacts with the public, try their services and go along for the experience so you can tell them why they are better than their competitors. They will love that! By doing this you can also tell them why you would be best for their job. Go for quantity and quality.

Persevere
Keep looking until you find a job. Karen advocates that job seekers must have a Rhino skin and be able to handle rejections. Many people may have been looking for a long time and still not able to find the right job. They must accept that perhaps they don’t tick all the right boxes for an employer. Every employer is looking for something different and something very specific. She says: “It’s hard when you don’t get a job, but you must be prepared for that and have thick skin to walk away with your chin up and still keep looking. Maybe consider taking a step down. Over time show off your skills and later move back up again.”

Work For Yourself
Perhaps people should consider working for themselves. A tough market often brings out the entrepreneurial spirit in people. Karen advices job seekers to see their own potential, to look at their strengths and go for it. A job for life is only for those who work for themselves. Karen says: “I decided at a very young age that whatever happens in life, I could deal with the worst of it. Why not take charge of your destiny and go it alone?”

Positive Attitude
Lots of people returning to work after a career or work break may find the job market has moved on. The key is to be positive and see what you can bring to the table. Thinking positive, whatever your situation, will bring about change. Karen firmly believes something will change. “If you keep knocking on doors, somewhere, somehow, someone will say yes. Go out and get it for yourself!” Karen recommends that job seekers should not rely on advertised jobs and go out and find one that might be there for the asking. “And don’t take no for an answer.”

Any Job is Better Than None
With unemployment so rife, employers can be choosy. Job seekers need to be in the right place at the right time. She says: “If someone came to me and they were flipping burgers to stay working, I would be inclined to employ them. They might be the right person for the job and they could move up the burger flipping management ladder!”

Realizing you don’t have a job can be terrifying and millions of people are now in fear of losing their jobs. “I would say this could be the opportunity to go for it. We only have one life and we must squeeze the juice of it!”

Market Yourself
Imagine yourself as a product that you have to market. Karen explains that many people are judged by the way they look and the way they sound. Karen came from South London and on her way up the entrepreneurial ladder she soon learnt that it was vitally important that her communication and presentation skills were top notch. So she went through a self-marketing process to refine her accent and appearance in order to appeal to employers, and eventually used this skill to bring potential investors into her own business.

Be Lateral
Find different ways to work. There are many alternatives to traditional employment and Karen now works from home as a coach and inspirational speaker. Karen suggests that people should consider flexible working instead of full time employment. She says: “Remote Employment might help, they have loads of jobs working from home. This helps to balance all options. Working from home or working remotely for a company can make a difference in people’s lives and to the employment culture in the UK.”

Become An Entrepreneur
Lastly, why not run a small home business from home? Becoming an entrepreneur doesn’t mean a business needs to be earning top whack. Many small businesses are entrepreneurial just by being different and thinking out of the box. Karen urges the unemployed not to sit at home, and mope, but instead try other ways to earn a living such as outsourcing their skills to employers and invoicing them for a few hours per day or week instead of being unemployed. “Here again, websites such as Remote Employment can help with flexible working options and home business opportunities.”

Mumtrepreneur
As a mother with two young sons, Karen often worked from home and became a "mumtreneur". In her company that provides training for call-centre staff, Karen Darby Direct, she has personally trained hundreds of people in the call centre industry and for many it was a life changing experience. In fact, many champions were raised in ‘Karen’s Stable’, several of whom have gone on to set up their own highly successful businesses.

Karen’s story, of creating several major business success stories while also juggling a real life at home, is a tale of our times – of what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, woman and mother in the 21st century. Karen prophesises that the current economic climate could bring out a whole new culture of home workers, and raised from the unemployment ashes, another generation of Entrepreneurs.

On a last note, Karen says to all the unemployed: “Be really flexible, be determined, stay positive and you can’t fail!”
For more information on Karen Darby, browse www.karendarbydirect.com or for information on Remote Employment browse jobs working from home at www.remoteemployment.com.

Remote Employment Wins Mentor Competition

(10 November 2008) Ten women from London had their dreams of being mentored by the best women in business become a reality in a ceremony at the BT Tower on Friday 7th November.

Eager entrepreneurs from across London entered their business ideas to the competition, run by FreshIdeas Events, and they met with their allocated 'Make A Difference' (MAD) Woman for the first time in the stunning surroundings of the Tower.

The panel of MAD women will be guiding the aspiring businesswomen to success over the next six months and you can track their progress by visiting FreshIdeas Events, www.freshideasevents.com.

Innovative ideas ranging from an ethical image consultancy encouraging clients to dress more eco-friendly, an online information business for those passionate about socialising and dining out in London, and a new sustainable, community-run hotel were among the winning ideas.

One of the winners is Paula Wynne, from Remote Employment, an online website dedicated to remote working and flexible home working options. Paula says: "This competition is excellent for businesswoman like myself to get access to the skill, experience and wealth of knowledge that the mentors will provide. I am excited to have the opportunity to work with Karen, who has so much enthusiasm and energy for the concept of remote working."

"Essentially, Remote Employment wants to make a difference to the employment culture in the UK by helping employers recruit talented job seekers in a cost effective way. Equally we want to help employees improve their quality of life while maintaining a career path at the same time. With Karen's help and guidance, we look forward to taking Remote Employment to the next level of growth."

Other winners and their mentors include:


Paula Wynne, from Remote Employment who has started an online business dedicated to home based, flexible and remote working. She has been matched to inspiration entrepreneur and founder of Simply Switch, Karen Darby, who sold her company to the Daily Mail in 2006 for £22m.

Michelle Peers, who runs an online business called Socialite London for people who are passionate about socialising and dining out in London has been matched to Founder of Everyclick.com, Polly Gowers, who was voted WEBE Ethical Entrepreneur of the Year 2007.

Georgina Stevens, a Virgin employee working on sustainability issues planning to put a business pitch to Richard Branson for a sustainable, community run hotel - matched to Jo Haigh, Head of Corporate Finance, MGR.

Zoe Robinson, a professional actress who plans to set up 'Think Style', an image consultancy with an ethical slant which will encourage clients to dress more eco-friendly. She has been matched to Director of EaKo, Babaloo and Bio-Supplies, Kresse Wesling.

Ila Panik, who plans to create a new alternative, trendy and positive development program for young women called U4U. She has been matched to founder of Club Asia Radio 963+972AM, Sumerah Ahmad.

Irene Okoro, who currently works in PR and aims to launch her online business idea, blackbrides.co.uk in January 2009. She has been matched to Saima Butt, Managing Director of Enterprise Business Technologies.

Gina Varela, who has started her own events massage company, Divine London. She has been matched to Krista Madden, editor of Beautyandthedirt.co.uk.

Amy Kilbane, who is currently a European Marketing Manager and wants to develop to become a leader in her organization. She has been matched to
Managing Partner of Fitch, Lucy Unger.

Emily Shenton, who has recently joined her partner at Arrival Education which develops innovative concepts and programs to find an alternative to the current state education model. She has been matched to the CEO of FreshMinds Group, Caroline Plumb.

Katharine Roseveare, manager of Intelligent Marketing which is now one of the UK's most successful marketing agencies. She currently has 30 employees and wants to take her business to the next level. She has been matched to Karen Hanton, the Founder and Chief Executive of toptable.co.uk.

Jackie Brennan, Director of FreshIdeas Events, the independent company that helps women to succeed in business says: "The ceremony was a huge success and it was great to be able to introduce the winners to their mentors for the first time. After the winners were announced by the BBC's Satnam Rana, the work began with a mentoring session from Suzanne Doyle of Doyle Morris Coaching.
"I believe that mentoring is a terrific way of giving entrepreneurs vital advice to help them on their way or take their businesses to the next level. It's been terrific for us to be able to help these women and develop their businesses to become a success like their mentors."

Fran Currie from Business Link in London says: "We are proud to be supporting the competition as it gives women from the capital the opportunity to start and grow their own businesses with the confidence of having an experienced mentor advising them on their way to success."

Business Link is the popular information service which provides impartial help and advice to businesses.

For more information on the winners and their mentors and to track their progress visit www.freshideasevents.com

Ken and Paula from Remote Employment are thrilled with their BT and Global Action Plan 'Responsible Business Day' Award!

Recruitment Business Wins Green prize

Recruitment small business Remote Employment has today been announced as the winner of a responsible business prize awarded by BT Business, in partnership with environmental charity Global Action Plan, to mark this year’s Small Business Week 2008.

From a national search, selecting 10 businesses across the UK, Remote Employment impressed judges with their passion and determination to understand and reduce their current impact on both the environment and society. Paula Wynne said; “Our business strongly advocates a healthy work life balance for employees through remote working. This practice provides a much more efficient, productive and greener way of working. The BT Business Responsible Business prize will definitely help us to practice what we preach and help us promote greener working to other employers as well as employees.”

The online recruitment connection service, Remote Employment, is dedicated to flexible jobs working from home, work from home jobs, and home based business and home based franchise opportunities. There are no agency fees as they use the website to match freelancers and home workers to employers.

This award comes as new BT Business research shows that 39% of small businesses in the South East say cutting back on energy use is the main thing they are doing to help the environment. This compares with 42% of businesses nationally.

Bill Murphy, managing director, BT Business said; “BT Business is proud to be awarding, Remote Employment this prize. It’s vital that small businesses tackle climate change and BT has partnered with GAP to offer this much needed support. We hope that Remote Employment will set a good example for other businesses in Berkshire and demonstrate that often what’s good for the environment is also a win for business.”

In addition to environmental management training and support from Global Action Plan, the prize includes a month of audio conferencing and a 12 month BT Tradespace Premium subscription from BT Business. It is designed to help support, Remote Employment in their efforts to reduce their energy consumption and reduce costs through greater efficiency.

For more information, browse www.remoteemployment.com

Mentor Competition Winners Announced in Ceremony at the BT Tower

Here Come the Girls – Mentor Competition Winners Announced in Ceremony at the BT Tower

(3 November 2008) Ten women from London will have their dreams of being mentored by some of the most successful women in business become a reality next week as FreshIdeas Events announces the winners of this year’s Mentor Competition.
Eager entrepreneurs from across London entered the competition in the hope of having their ideas put into practice with the help of the best in the industry.

On Friday 7th November press are invited to the awards ceremony on the 34th floor of the prestigious BT Tower where the winners of the competition will be announced and the women will meet their mentors for the first time.

The panel of ‘Make a Difference’ (MAD) Women who will be guiding the aspiring businesswomen in London to success include Saima Butt, Managing Director of Enterprise Business Technologies, who has run her own business successfully for over three years. Saima now has a customer base of 35,000 SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) and employs 22 people.

Saima says: “The competition is an excellent opportunity for us to give aspiring entrepreneurs essential advice to help guide them through the first few months of their business enterprise. Winning this competition could change women’s lives irrevocably as we can inject knowledge and experience into their businesses and help them achieve their goals.”

This extraordinary panel of women who unquestionably ‘Make A Difference’ when it comes to female success in business are from a variety of sectors and background. The eclectic panel joining Saima include:

• Karen Darby, inspirational entrepreneur and founder of SimplySwitch, which was sold to the Daily Mail in 2006 for £22m

• Karen Hanton, Founder and Chief Executive of toptable.co.uk; Karen was named as one of today's top 30 entrepreneurs in New Business Magazine

• Sumerah Ahmad, Co-Founder and Director of Club Asia Radio 963+972AM is no stranger to success and winning awards. Since launching Club Asia five years ago, she has scooped the Asian Women of Achievement Award and was listed in Management Today’s Top 35 Women Under 35, while her radio station, which she launched with her sister, was named the Brightest New Business in 2005 at the HSBC Start-Up Stars Awards

• Jo Haigh, Author and Head of Corporate Finance of MGR, has bought and sold over 300 companies in the last 20 years. One busy lady, Jo is also Partner of fds, a successful training and consultancy organisation; the author of three successful business books, one of which sold out in the first five days after going on sale; and has made her way into the 2008 edition of “Who’s Who of Britain’s Business Elite”

• Kresse Wesling, Director of EAKO, Babaloo and Bio-Supplies, is passionate about all things eco. She won the Entrepreneurial Woman of the Future award at the Real Business Awards in 2007, and was named in Management Today’s “35 Women Under 35”

• Polly Gowers, Founder of Everyclick.com, a search engine that gives half of its revenue to charity. Polly was voted WEBA Ethical Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 and a Blackberry Woman in Technology Award winner in 2008.

• Krista Madden, Founder and Editor of widely read online magazine, www.beautyandthedirt.com, who has been running her own businesses for the past 17 years.

• Lucy Unger, Managing Partner EMEA for renowned international design consultancy, Fitch.

• Caroline Plumb, CEO of FreshMinds Group, the business she co-founded in September 2000 straight after leaving Oxford University. With a 75-strong team, FreshMinds was crowned ‘Most Innovative Employer’ at the Market Research Awards in 2006 as well as ‘Best Agency’ which they won for the second year running in 2007.

Jackie Brennan, Director of FreshIdeas Events, the independent company that helps women to succeed in business says: “Mentoring is an excellent way to give entrepreneurs confidence as well as essential knowledge and skills. The winners will have the chance to learn from some of the best women in business and to benefit from the array of valuable experience the women have.”

Business Link provides help and advice to businesses is also supporting the competition. Fran Currie from Business Link in London says: “We are proud to be supporting the competition as it gives women from the capital the opportunity to start and grow their businesses with the confidence of having an experienced mentor advising them on their way to success.”

Further details about the competition can be found at www.freshideasevents.com.

Work from Home with Skype

Work from Home with Skype
Whether you plan to work from home, have a home based job or run a business at home, when it comes to phone bills, don't let them cost the earth! Try making calls through your computer with Skype!

Make Skype calls without a computer
You don’t always need to be connected to your computer to use Skype. Cordless handsets simply plug into your computer’s USB port and allow you to make Skype calls from anywhere in your house or office.
Skype Certified™ cordless handsets

Make Skype your own
Change the way you look to the rest of the world by adding a personalised avatar that looks just like you. You could also add a new ringtone or play games with your friends. You’ll need to buy a little Skype Credit to pay for items. Start personalising now.

Staying safe online is important.
You can accept or deny any request from other Skype users asking you to join their contact list.
Open Skype and click the Tools > Options > Privacy, and set your preferences for receiving communications.
Handy tip: Your online status is set automatically. To change it yourself, click the green tick symbol at the bottom of the Skype window.

Communicate with Many People at Once
Set up a conference call with up to ten people for business or pleasure. Communicate with many people at once. Or use Skype to have a group chat with up to 100 people at once. Need to add more people to your contact list? Spread the love and get your colleagues to use Skype as well. Tell your colleagues about Skype

Organising your contacts into groups
Sorting your contacts into groups allows you to send group messages, as well as easily organise group chats and conference calls. Import your Outlook™ contacts into Skype. Then send any Outlook™ contact a message to download Skype. View Outlook™ contacts in Skype.


To read the full article on Remote Employment: Work from Home with Skype

Home Based Franchise Opportunities

Home Based Franchise as a MOLLY MAID ...

MOLLY MAID is proud to be recognised as the leading brand in domestic cleaning in a £2 billion plus market with almost infinite possibilities for growth.

Blooming FranchiseSince MOLLY MAID started in 1979 it has provided its cleaning services to hundreds of thousands of satisfied customers in Canada, USA, Portugal and Japan as well as the UK. This year alone over 400 MOLLY MAID franchises will perform in excess of 2 million home cleans worldwide.

A Franchise You Can ManageThe MOLLY MAID service provides high quality reliable domestic cleaning operated by Franchise Owners who manage teams of maids within an exclusive area. Although some sales and management experience is an advantage, our franchise partners come from all walks of life. The qualities we look for are human attributes such as common sense, ability to get on with people and a willingness to work hard. What our franchise partners have in common is the desire to follow our system and to succeed.

MOLLY MAID focuses purely on providing a professional domestic cleaning service and is a household name so there is no hard sell involved. For more details see Home Based Franchise Opportunities on Remote Employment.

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New working at home opportunities

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Remote Employment is really pleased that the franchise opportunities and home working opportunities pages are taking off. We are now including lots of home based businesses and home based franchises. Check out the resources for starting your own home business and keep watching as we will be adding new articles and pages every week.

We also have new opportunity pages in development with all sorts of clients offering you the chance to work from home with your own home based business.

Take care (and keep watching Remote Employment)
Paula

Home Based Telesales Executives
To continue our rapid growth, Remote Employment's client needs to recruit a number of experianced Tele-sales Executives to work from home on a commission only basis. You will speak to small and medium size on-line retailers - unlimited potential clients. Your job is to show them they can enjoy a surge in sales when they join a shopping portal.

CV and Career Consultant Working From Home:
Young, successful, energetic and highly diverse career management consultancy seeks to expand its talented team of home working CV Advisors. You will work from an extensive database of clients, offering objective and honest evaluations on the formatting and marketability of client CVs within the current highly competitive job market.

Consultants will be armed with extensive product knowledge in order to up sell professional CV writing and other career management services to greatly enhance the client’s opportunities for obtaining interviews, promotions, work/life balance and other key individual necessities.

To view full details on this Telesales Job Working From Home and Home Based Career and CV Consultant, please see Remote Employment.

Home Based Sales Reps

Our client launched in December 2007 and after only 2 years of development, already have a Google page ranking of 5/10! This puts them on par with Selfridges and Harvey Nicks.

To continue our rapid growth, they need to recruit a number of experianced Tele-sales Executives to work from home on a commission only basis. You will speak to small and medium size on-line retailers - unlimited potential clients. Your job is to show them they can enjoy a surge in sales when they join our shopping portal.
For more details, see Remote Employment.

The Do's and Don'ts of Working from Home

At last, you've realised your dream. You no longer have to take part in the morning and evening commute, you don't have to get involved anymore in petty office politics and you are free to do as you please - you're working from home.

Mostly, it's down to common sense but all too often what seems like common sense is only viewed with the benefit of hindsight.

Firstly some dos.

Do talk it over with others who live in the house. This is after all your and their living space and all parties need to have agreed that part of the family home can be used this way.

Do check it out with your insurance and mortgage companies as there may be clauses that need amending or could even prevent it. It's unlikely but check it anyway.

Do take into account the type of business you're running. If you're providing a service or information, space for a desk is all you really need but if you're selling products, where are you going to store them? A garage and a spare bedroom full of cartons might not be appreciated.

Do be disciplined. When you no longer go out to work, that fact that you still need to work can get sort of lost. See your day as still a working day. Decide how many hours you want or need to work and then stick to them. There has to be flexibility in this of course, otherwise a major advantage to working from home is wasted, but some sort of regular work pattern is best.

From my experience, I know of people working from home who need to feel that they're in work mode to operate and who dress as if they're going to the office. Not necessarily the suit, collar and tie but in a dressed down, smart casual way. Sitting in front of the computer or on the phone in pajamas just doesn't work for them. If it does for you then that's a bonus and a saving on clothes bills.

Now some don'ts.

Don't be distracted. When you're employed, you work according to your contract. You arrive and leave at certain times and you do the work that's expected of you in that time. Working from home has many potential temptations and distractions to undermine that ethic. There's something you want to watch on the TV, it would be a great day to take the dog to the park, the CD/DVD collections needs cataloguing, the lawn needs cutting - the list is endless.

Don't publish your home telephone number. This is very relevant if you're promoting a website which shows your number. The web is global, even if you're only operating within your own area or country. I speak from experience as I've been woken in the early hours by people calling from the other side of the World and answering business calls when you're still half asleep isn't a good idea! Get a dedicated business line and an answering service.

Don't become too isolated. It's important to remember that most likely you were part of a community when you went to work. You had colleagues with whom you discussed last night's tv, and who shared a common goal with you in that you worked together with the same aim. When you work from home, that goes. You can still have contact over the telephone or via email but unless you have a home that's the neighborhood drop-in coffee shop, you will not be meeting many people. Understand this and make time and space for human contact.

Working from home is a bonus. Make the most of it but be aware of the potential hazards.
by: Andrew Poole
Article Source: ABC Article Directory

Andrew Poole was CEO of a Financial Services Company in the UK and is now creating his own Internet Marketing venture For your FREE copy of the definitive 'How to' guide for budding Internet Marketers, visit: http://www.homeworkinternet.com/

Work At Home Business Opportunity

Work At Home Business Opportunity
by: Elias Georgi

There are literally thousands of business opportunities for entrepreneurs and small business owners to develop. Choosing a home based business that allows you flexibility and convenience can also be rewarding. Evaluating and building your work at home business opportunity into a successful business can be one of the most exciting activities in your career!

We will examine several of the phases of startups that everyone should know about in this business article. The main phases of any new business whether it is a home based business or a business that begins in a factory or elsewhere are conception and initial funding, preparation for launch, initial operations, significant growth and maturity. Not all business ideas will make it through all of these steps and some new business owners may not even realize they are moving through these stages.

Regardless of the type of business, most will spend time in each and depending on the growth rates, some will spend more time in once phase or another. Conception is the phase where most people come up with an idea and take this new business idea into a full-grown plan. They will need to do a business plan at this stage, especially if they need to find funding to support their startup phases. This stage also includes preparing your plans for how you will launch your company or home based business.

Taking the time at this stage to properly plan all of your activities will ensure that there is better chances of success for you're new work at home business. Preparing for launch involves everything that needs to be completed before you actually begin producing whatever you are going to produce. Whether it is software or widgets, you need to ensure that you have the right tools, space, employees, funding etc to ensure that on the day that you launch your business you are ready to be productive and deal with your customers in a professional way and ensure that your customers are 100% satisfied. Launching your business can sometimes be almost anti-climatic if you have really done all of your homework.

The first 30 to 60 days are critical; since this is when you begin to establish your customer base, establish your customer satisfaction and word of mouth sales etc. Many businesses will fail in these early days simply because the revenue did not come in and they ran out of funding. Pay particular attention to all of your operating details and ensure that your customers are extremely satisfied. At some point successful home businesses are going to reach the curve of the hockey stick. This is when sales and business volume, which has been growing steadily, suddenly begins to take off sometimes in an exponential manner.

This is nirvana for small business owners and entrepreneurs, however it can also be a death sentence as well if you are not prepared. Business planning at this stage is critical to ensure that you are growing your company in a manner that meets demand without over extending your finances, while still maintaining customer satisfaction levels. Many work at home business opportunities have the potential to mature into successful business if they are manage carefully through all phases.

About The Author Elias Georgi is an experienced and successful sponsor, mentor and coach for many thriving, tested and proven home businesses. Elias offers proven Internet opportunities and strategies. Visit his Website: http://www.eliasg.com/ , he also runs the http://www.exclusive-article.com/ article directory.

Did you know ...

On average people in the UK spend more time travelling to and from work (29 days a year) than they do on annual leave.

Remote employment ... a greener way of working!

Work at Home as a Girlie Gardener

Why carry a builder’s bucket when you can have a pink one? It will do exactly the same job but with a lot more style, and your man won’t touch it!An exciting and glamorous gardening online shop for girlie gardeners selling wickedly wonderful Wellington boots, hot pink clogs, feminine garden tools, lady gloves, pink watering cans and much more, needs keen gardeners who love being girlie to be party plan consultants.

You will work at home or amongst your friends in your own time. Your outgoing and friendly personality will represent them to sell its fabulous, funky and fun accessories across the UK. As a party plan representative you will have the opportunity to work totally flexible hours selling very popular products for a great commission.

In return for your time and a small outlay for your start up pack you will receive a full range of support from the management team and attractive commission based remuneration. Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to join the UK's fastest growing Party Plan Company, see more details on Remote Employment.

Teach Dance with a Home Based Business

Do you love dancing? Do you get on well with children? Can you teach them to dance? Then you should be part of the Funky Feet Franchise!

Fun Fun Fun!Funky Feet Dance Parties & Workshops are an excellent way for children to keep fit, have fun, be creative and increase their confidence. Party TimeRunning your own Funky Feet Franchise is a fresh and innovative approach to dance and the performing arts. Its main aim is to make dance inclusive to all by providing parties and workshops to children and young people throughout the UK, including the Channel Islands.

All AgesThe dynamic and diverse classes allows those of various ages and abilities to engage in enjoyable and expressive activities in an organic and challenging way. See Remote Employment for more details.

Work at Home Party Plan

Rep for success
As a party plan representative for an online gardening company you will have the opportunity to work totally flexible hours to suit you by selling very popular products for a great commission. In return for your time and a small outlay for your start up pack you will receive a full range of support from the Girlie Gardening management team and attractive commission based remuneration. See more details on Remote Employment.

Get Paid to Wine, Dine and Travel!

If you've ever thought being paidto eat at the leading restaurants, being handed luxury cars to test drive, being sent on all expenses paid holidays to the most luxurious resorts and receiving a steady supply of amazing lifestyle products to sample was the domain of only the luckiest TV presenters and celebrities, think again. ViVo Magazine managers get all of these benefits and more. It is all part of the job! See more Details on Remote Employment.

Work at Home Recruitment Consultant

iworkLife is a home-based recruitment franchise aimed at teaching franchisees to recruit talented people for businesses within their local community and how to charge the business a fee for the service. What iworkLife has designed is a business model to fit around you, your family life and the commitments that come with that so you can work at home.

No Experience Needed
iworkLife offers a real opportunity to run a successful home-based business that has good earning potential, and that also complements your previous working experiences and one that requires no previous recruitment knowledge. See Franchise Opportunities on Remote Employment.

Home Based Legal Development Consultant

This online virtual solicitors practice is niche in many ways and its business development programme is equally special. As such it is looking for a proactive legal development officer who will be able to build business relationships to generate leads from other legal practises, in-house counsel and MD’s /FD’s of SME businesses.

Candidates should shall proven experience of business development in the legal profession ideally and past experience of business generation in the SME sector.The successful candidate will enjoy flexible working arrangements to match and a competitive commission only payment structure that rewards success.Would suit a home/teleworker with hours to suit. Unlimited earnings potential to the right candidate. See more details on Remote Employment.

What Women Really Want ...

... is to work from home with flexible working options. Whether it is video conferencing in the conservatory, brainstorming in the bath or writing a report in the gazebo, flexible working comes in many different forms. One of which is to own a home business.
Woman PilotsWith over one million self employed women piloting with their own business, it is easy to see why they have more time for family and hobbies, spend less time commuting and have reduced stress levels. Yet in the current climate do women still want to run their own business?

According to a new survey by Remote Employment, working around family is the main reason why women want to work from home and own a home based business। Combined with flexible hours and maintaining a career, a home based business is the perfect ingredient. Add a good income and the spice of life falls into place. The perfect recipe for a home based business.

Commenting on the poll results, Paula Wynne, Co-Founder of Remote Employment, and a Mum who has always juggled family and work, said: "We started Remote Employment to fill the gap in the job market by offering a connection to employers and people who want to work flexibly, remotely or work from home. A huge majority of people surveyed said they want to 'work around family' with flexible hours."

According to the South East Women's Enterprise Network, 51% of self employed women work part time compared with 14% of men। They also state that self employed women are more qualified than their male counterparts, yet men are twice as likely to start a business। As women account for a large slice of the working population and only a handful of them have a fear of failure, it explains what 'women-entrepreneurs' really want.

As well as flexible and home based jobs, Remote Employment lists Home Business Opportunities for women (and men) who want to take the plunge and work for themselves. Paula said: "Flexible working is highly sought after by parents who want to juggle careers and family life. There is a fabulous variety of businesses that women can do at home and we aim to showcase them all."

The survey also showed that money motivates only 13% of women while 47% prefer flexible employment as their work incentive। Technology advancements over the past few years has increased business mobility and given millions of parents more control over how they do their work. Paula believes working flexibly, remotely or working with a home business increases job satisfaction and work production, and gives people an all round improvement in work-life balance.

For more information on Remote Employment, contact Paula Wynne on 0844 800 8355 or paula@remoteemployment.com.

How to Ensure Interview Success

Check our guidelines for 10 ways to prepare for your next interview. Go armed with our Q & A checklist and get the job!

Questions about the Company: What do you know about our company?
Research, research, research! Check the company website for details about their products and services, their size in the marketplace, their reputation, their competitors their corporate image, their goals, any problems they may have, their management style, who works for them, what skills they have and a general history and vision of the company। This is vital to show your interest in them and the possible job they could offer you। Keep it factual and to the point so that they can tell you how they define their own business। Don’t go without this information। And don’t go without even having looked at their website and know what they do!

See Remote Employment: Job Seekers: How To Ensure Interview Success!

Flexible Working For Everyone

Flexible working is here to stay! And it will soon be widely available to as many as 4.5 million extra parents with teenagers as well as little children, after Gordon Brown recently announced his work-life balance agenda.

Responding to The Chancellor’s announcement, Paula Wynne, Co-Founder and Communications Director of Remote Employment, a website dedicated to connecting Employers with Job Seekers who want to work flexibly, remotely or work from home, said: “This move from the government to support flexible working will be welcomed by millions of parents across the country!”

A staggering ‘one in seven’ mothers work flexible hours with 12 percent of them using a ‘Term Time’ working arrangement. Home working franchises and online businesses have helped many Mums to pursue a career and maintain an income with the opportunity to work from home.

However, Dads are worse off. It is estimated that they see their children one month a year less when compared to time spent with their children by their partner. Some sources estimate that UK workers as a whole spend 47 days a year commuting to and from work, a huge majority of this could be men. Flexible working is a possible cure for both these disadvantages.

Currently only parents of children under six years old have the right to request flexible working as well as carers of the disabled. The new agenda extends the right to all those with children up to the age of 16. Mr Brown said: "The right to request flexible working has been working for lots of people over the last few years. It is working for parents of young children and now it can apply to children under 16 where families need time off to help bring them up.”

Flexible working has moved steadily up the agenda since April 2003 and now Gordon Brown aims to improve the country's work-life balance by encouraging employers to provide flexible working across the workforce.

A Government survey in 2005 found that 14 per cent of British employees had requested a change to their working arrangements since the ‘right to request’ was introduced. Twenty-two per cent of parents of children under 6 have requested to work flexibly, and 81 per cent of these requests have been fully or partly accepted.

The survey also showed that requests are significantly more common from women than men, with 36% of women with dependent children under the age of six making a request to work flexibly between 2003 and 2005, compared with only 12 % of men with dependent children under six.

Flexible working is much more than part-time working. It can mean working compressed hours, flexi-time, term-time-working, working remotely or working from home. It includes job-share arrangements which can bring additional benefits for employers as each partner brings a different set of skills to the job.

Flexible working is highly sought after by parents who want to juggle career aspirations with family life. Employees may choose to work flexibly to meet childcare or caring commitments, as well as allowing them to study or pursue other interests outside their work. More often than not the career ladder takes a back seat as Paula experienced: “When my son was little I wanted to take him to school as well as fetch him, and be there for homework and after school activities.”
This meant Paula’s career aspirations often took a nose dive and she accepted jobs that may not have been ideal, but flexible working gave her the pleasure of watching her son having a swimming lesson or playing football after school.

Over the years Paula dug her heels in and only accepted positions where an employer allowed her to work flexibly. When she couldn’t work this way any longer, she simply side-stepped and freelanced or outsourced her office skills and experience to small companies, giving her son the continued support throughout his secondary years of education.

Asked if she regretted her decision, Paula said: “I have never regretted it. Everybody should have the right to choose how they want to work. I was very fortunate to work flexibly and take work home. I could have been up before dawn to get the train to London and home after my son was in bed, but then what’s the point of having a child if you never see them? I could have done a lot more, learnt a lot more and gained more recognition, but at least I never missed my son’s first goal or his first performance in the school play. That is far more valuable to me!”

“It would have been great to work in my dream job, but they were always out of reach with hours and commuting. This is the reason I started Remote Employment, it was difficult to find flexible jobs and maintain my career. We aim to be the best site for connecting employers and job seekers who want flexible work.”

Paula and her business partner Ken Sheridan, a Dad of two teenage sons, want Remote Employment to fill the gap in the job market by offering a connection to employers and job seekers who want to work flexibly, remotely or work from home. Remote Employment is for everyone who has the need to work this way.

Paula believes that the government’s new flexible working agenda, alongside home based business opportunities, which is being driven by the huge advances in technology, is the way forward for the majority of parents. It provides them with more control over how they do their work, increases job satisfaction and work production, and an all round improvement in work-life balance.

For more information on Remote Employment's modern recruitment solutions, contact Paula Wynne on 0844 800 8355 or paula@remoteemployment.com.

How to implement a flexible working plan

The traditional 'office' is heading for a workplace revolution. Century-old established, outdated working cultures and traditions need to break down. They are wasteful in terms of resources and time, damaging in terms of the environment and global warming, unhealthy in terms of worker wellbeing, and frustrating in terms of traffic congestion and public transport overcrowding.

Research shows that the structure of the labour market is going to be reshaped dramatically over the four years, with remote working expected to almost double. There are already around 3.1 million people working from home in the UK and this is expected to double by 2012! The recent emergence of 'virtual jobs' and 'virtual communities' is changing the way companies attract and retain skilled employees.

Adopting a modern day approach to our working lives will increase business productivity and competitiveness, reduce transport congestion and pollution, reduce stress, assist disadvantaged groups and harmonise our work and family commitments. In addition, remote working gives employers the added advantage of recruiting talented individuals from anywhere in the country instead of just around their local office.

A flexible or remote working policy may enable you and your company to retain valued staff by offering them choices to suit their lifestyle demands. Remote employment is a strategy for better management of your workforce. Flexible working is a cultural shift for many organisations and it is best to use the following table as a productive start:
- Raise awareness with all staff
- Establish key needs
- Define targets
- Determine costs and benefits
- Define priorities
- Set an action plan
- Review

Remote working gives employers the added advantage of recruiting talented individuals from anywhere in the country instead of just around their local office.

Remote Employment, a web service dedicated to flexible and home based recruitment, invites companies across the UK to support National Work from Home, by giving their employees the opportunity to work flexible hours or work from home. Founder and Managing Director, Ken Sheridan believes a flexible employment solution benefits business, employees, and the country as a whole.

For more information on Remote Employment's modern recruitment solutions, contact Ken Sheridan on ken@remoteemployment.com.

Are You Working from Home Today?

15 May 2008

Today millions of Brits will lie in bed for another ten minutes, spend an additional five minutes munching through extra toast over a lazy breakfast and take a longer shower. They won’t have to rush for the early train or get into the fast lane of traffic congestion. Instead, they will amble into their home office, switch on their PC and get stuck into emails and buried in office documents without commuting distractions, for today is National Work from Home Day.

The annual National Work from Home Day is aimed at highlighting smarter working practices by encouraging companies to try out working from home. Besides the positive work-life balance benefits this would have, even if only a small proportion of workers worked just one day a week from home, the impact on traffic congestion and public transport over-crowding would be profound. Just remember half term and summer holidays when there are no school runs!

Working from home significantly improves productivity, enabling businesses to be more competitive, and enhances work-life balance for staff, with added health and leisure benefits. BT are leaders in their flexible working policies and now have more than 70,000 flexible workers, with seven out of 10 people working flexibly and nearly 10% home based.
Remote Employment, a web service dedicated to flexible and home based recruitment, urges companies across the UK to support National Work from Home, by giving their employees the opportunity to work flexible hours or work from home. Founder and Managing Director, Ken Sheridan believes a flexible employment solution benefits business, employees, and the country as a whole.

Sheridan said: “There is a growing desire by employees to work from home, which shows a need for businesses to take steps to enable workers to work from home to reduce their carbon footprint. Research shows that the structure of the labour market is going to be reshaped dramatically over the four years, with remote working expected to almost double. There are already around 3.1 million people working from home in the UK and this is expected to double by 2012! The recent emergence of 'virtual jobs' and 'virtual communities' is changing the way companies attract and retain skilled employees.”

Sheridan explained that although working from home fits snugly with the lifestyle of the self-employed, regardless of their location, it is fast becoming the ‘norm’ with forward thinking organisations across the UK. He said: “Already the majority of freelancers and self employed consultants work from home, now both big businesses and their smaller counterparts, each mindful of budgets, can also benefit from outsourcing their PA and admin services as well as their creative skills.”

Smarter working practices revolutionise the way people work and leads to increased business productivity and competitiveness, reduced transport congestion and pollution, improved health, assist disadvantaged groups, and harmonise work and family commitments. Last year an Oxford University report revealed that working from home can help reduce the emission of the gases that cause global warming. The study, which pulled together research from around the world, demonstrated conclusively, that the reduction in commuting time resulting from people working at home will mean less carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere - one of the gases that causes global warming.

Phil Flaxton, chief executive of Work Wise UK which is organising National Work from Home Day said: "Technology is enabling people to work virtually anywhere. National Work from Home Day is not an excuse for an extra day off, it is a serious attempt for people and organisations to try out homeworking."

Smarter organisations reduce employment costs by adopting ‘remote working’ as a regular employment solution. With this new approach, many employers are now considering remote working and working from home as viable options in their recruitment drive.

For more information, browse www.remoteemployment.com or www.workwiseuk.org.

WOMEN-TREPRENEURS WANT REMOTE WORKERS!

According to National Stats, there are more than one million women in the UK working from home and at least half of them are womentrepreneurs. Helen Hammond, an Aromatherapist and Indian Head Masseuse from Stoke on Trent, is a good example of a successful ‘Work from Home Mum’. Apart from juggling a husband and two teenage sons, she runs Scentsible Solutions, a website offering natural Aromatherapy products and services to both private and corporate clients.

A few years ago, whilst bringing up her two lads she was inspired by her stepmum in the states, who had created a programme of pure essential oil blends to target problems in Alzheimer’s patients for a local nursing home.

They proved to be so effective and popular that Helen begged to promote them in the UK. In the beginning she envisaged myself as a sales agent, but very quickly became fascinated and intrigued with the working of the essential oils. By now, so passionate was Helen that she trained and qualified as an Aromatherapist and Indian Head Masseuse.

Within four years she had an interesting, rewarding and satisfying career and business with her online aroma shop. Helen prides herself on tailoring products to an individual’s needs and not just selling what she has on the cyber shelves.

Now Scentsible Solutions is set to expand and include more products to help with a variety of ailments using natural ingredients. Although Helen and Scentsibles seems to be an lovely ‘home business’ it hasn’t been all uphill. Helen recalls having to persuade customers to purchase her products as they were an unknown brand.

Constant innovation in ‘pampering’ to individual needs won her and her products over and she is currently implementing a party plan and sales agents scheme, all work from home Mums of course.

And to this end, she called on Remote Employment, a website specialising in recruitment for flexible, work from home positions and home based jobs. Helen believes that her products would be ideally suited to working mums or stay at home mums who want to earn an income and maintain a career interest. Her position would be ideally suited to individuals with an interest in Aromatherapy and all that goes with natural cures to ailments.

Remote Employment Director, Paula Wynne said: “We are really happy to be working with inspirational women like Helen to help grow their business. Research shows that the structure of the labour market is going to be shaken dramatically over the next four years with remote working expected to almost double. It is really exciting to be at the forefront of the remote working culture.”

If you have any special needs or just want a good ol’ indulge, give Helen a call or try some of her hand blended essential oils and soothing products from www.scentsiblesolutions.co.uk. Or if you want to find home based business opportunities or work from home jobs browse www.remoteemployment.com.

WHAT WILL THE EMPLOYEE OF TOMORROW LOOK LIKE?

Is the employee of the future going to be a young, be-suited man or woman sitting at a desk from nine to five? Could it be that future workspaces will be made up of meeting space, and the concept of having your own desk at work no longer existing? The notion of nine to five might gradually disappear, with staff working ad-hoc hours around their home commitments.

Offices will probably disappear and instead mini business centres could spring up near satellite offices. Increasingly people will work from home as organisations cut down their overheads on office space and use remote locations as the new-age workplace.

These communities will build up around 'streetscapes' with services for workers such as hairdressers and cafés. Workers will only come to the office to collaborate. Better technology infrastructure will make distributed working easier. All of this will have a positive impact on health and stress levels.

According to Howard Grosvenor, Managing Consultant at people performance specialist SHL, changes in the wider context of work will have a great impact on the worker of the future. UK employees will need to be flexible enough to continually work across time zones, languages and cultures.

With this new-age worker in mind, many employers are now considering remote working and working from home as viable options in their recruitment drive. Websites such as Remote Employment will come to the fore and take the lead in recruiting ‘tomorrow’s workers’. Currently, around 3.1 million people usually or regularly work from home and this is likely to double in the near future.

Ken Sheridan, Managing Director of Remote Employment, believes the recent emergence of 'virtual jobs' and ‘virtual communities’ is changing the way companies attract and retain skilled employees. Smarter organisations reduce employment costs by adopting ‘remote working’ as a regular employment solution.

Remote Employment is an online web service specialising in remote working, work from home positions and home based appointments. They promote work-life balance with employment solutions such as flexible working, remote working, mobile working and working from home. Adopting this modern day approach to our working lives will increase business productivity and competitiveness, reduce transport congestion and pollution, improve health, assist disadvantaged groups and harmonise our work and family commitments.

Sheridan adds: “The new-age worker’s 'green agenda' will increase home working, which will make it much easier for families to combine work and caring responsibilities. Flexible working at senior levels will be more acceptable, which will encourage more men, particularly in younger age groups, to ask for flexible arrangements enabling them to participate more fully in family life at no cost to their career ambitions.

Remote Employment hopes thousands of companies and organisations will follow the new-age worker by implementing flexible working practices to the benefit of their business, their employees, and the country as a whole.

For more information, browse www.remoteemployment.com to find a variety of positions suitable for the ‘worker of the future’.

PARENTS AND CARERS DREAM OF WORKING FROM HOME

Working from home can be a dream. No commuting, no fighting traffic, no expensive lunches, no petty office politics and no racing to climb the corporate ladder. And you could put in a pretty good day’s work without constant interruptions from colleagues’ phone chatter and funny emails, and of course, the always present, office gossip.

A staggering ‘one in seven’ mothers work flexible hours with 12 percent of them using a ‘Term Time’ working arrangement. According to the Office for National Statistics there are a growing number of women-owned businesses in the UK, almost one million, with around half a million women working from home. Home working franchises and online businesses are particularly popular because they allow Mums to pursue a career and maintain an income with the opportunity to work from home.

A newly launched online recruitment service, www.remoteemployment.com, specialising in connecting Employers with remote working Job Seekers and Freelancers offers great opportunities for work from home businesses and office-home jobs with main stream companies. The website is unique in that the concept of remote working has been around for some time, but there hasn’t been dedicated recruitment service that connects remote jobs in reputable companies with individuals.

Remote working is perfect for Mums (and Dads) with an dependent child or young family, single parents with teens, as well as people caring for sick or elderly family members. People all across the UK from all backgrounds are fitting work around families and home life and doing it with confidence and style. They find working in their own home the best way to juggle a career and their other responsibilities. Whether this is freelancing for a company, running their own business, working with companies that promote office-home job combinations, positions that cater for field travels or others that can easily be done away from the office, the freedom and independence to control working hours is everyone’s cup of tea.

For many people, the ideal working environment is their own home. Some work from another remote location such as a partner’s office, friend’s small business or a family home. National Stats reports that women are more likely than men to have some form of flexible working arrangement with just over a quarter of women using a flexible working pattern compared to around a fifth of men.Amongst all types of working arrangements, flexible working hours is most common with an average of 12 per cent for parent employees. Vital stats such as these prove that the trend towards flexible and home working, alongside home based business opportunities, is the way forward for the majority of parents and people caring for others. It provides them with more control over how they do their work, increases job satisfaction and work production and an all round improvement in work-life balance.

This type of employment solution with forward thinking companies improves the likelihood of an employee staying with the company and thus, promoting employment stability within small companies and large corporations. Remote Employment’s Managing Director, Ken Sheridan, believes that today’s employees aren’t solely motivated by money and are more likely looking for flexible working to help them balance their work and home life.

Sheridan said: “Flexible employment solutions and home working can be a powerful benefit to employees. Companies will have to look to the future to ensure they don’t lose out on talented employees who want to pursue their career goals and who are determined to follow their work at home dream.”
To find out more about working remotely browse www.remoteemployment.com.

There are an increasing number of UK companies who are investing to enable their employees to work from home. Advantages are obvious: less stress, tax advantages, more flexibility and in many cases, an overall improvement in efficiency.

Teleworking or Working Remotely has gained momentum and is set to become even more popular over the next year. With transport, office building rates, and associated costs rising above inflation each year, more and more employers are setting up pilot projects or running surveys, to find out what employees think about working from home.

The millions out there already working remotely have offices at home, while some use internet cafes and remote offices. Many more professionals yearn to be work-at-home contractors who juggle multiple assignments. An estimated third of UK workers would like to go it alone and choose their own work enviroment.

Are you a remote worker? How does this suit you and your company? What type of work do you do? Let us know your thoughts and feelings about remote working? Is it a trend that is here to stay or do you think it will take off and be the new way of working?