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?