Telecommuting is more acceptable

I think that is fantastic news. As a person who thinks that working at home and telecommuting are the wave of the future, I am glad to see more Human Resource managers are on the same wavelength. According to a recent survey, 81% of hiring managers now have policies that allow employees to work remotely. In addition, 67% of hiring managers believe the number of employees who work remotely will grow by 2008.

"We learned that companies need to build a product that says, 'if you come and work for us, here's what you're going to have: a casual work environment, a flexible schedule' -- whatever that may be," said Jim Lanzalotto, vice president of strategy and marketing at Yoh. "Companies are realizing that in order to attract the best people to come work for their companies, they need to create an environment that's conducive to do that."

If you are looking to telecommute at your current job here are some resources:





How to write a telecommuting proposal

Sample telecommuting proposal letter

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Health Professionals

Epocrates Introduces Free, Web-based Drug and Health Plan Formulary Product Leading Developer of Mobile Applications Provides New Online Service for Healthcare Professionals Epocrates Inc. announced today that clinicians and support staff can now access an online version of its free and trusted mobile drug and formulary guide, used by more than 500,000 healthcare professionals. Epocrates Online provides clinicians with access to critical information about more than 3,300 drugs, including dosing, pricing, potential drug interactions and Medicare Part D formulary coverage from any computer with an Internet connection.

Jacob Wood, MD, assistant professor, UAB Selma Family Residency Program says

I’ve been using Epocrates products on my PDA for years and find them indispensable to my practice. I think it is wonderful that my colleagues and staff that don’t yet use a PDA can now access the same information online to help them improve patient care,” .

Zocor is one of the medicines that you can get information on now from Epocrates.com Using this great new website allows physicans and other medical staff the ability to get clinically useful and relevant information quickly and efficently rather than having to go through many medical guides. For most healthcare professionals it saves about 30 minutes a day. Healthcare professionals can quickly and easily obtain formulary status, drug coverage and alternative and generic drug options for their patients’ health plans with Epocrates Online.

Online college degrees

As a busy mom with several work at home jobs and kids, I would I like someday to go back to school to get my Master's degree. Another option is to find a college that awards online degrees . One such school is Capella University, an accredited online university with online degree programs in that offers graduate degree programs in business, information technology, education, human services, and psychology, and bachelor’s degree programs in business and information technology.

Over 16,000 have chosen Capella University as their online learning option. They have an online seminar to help you make the decision on whether or not graduate school is an option for you. Created by Dr. Mark Rossman, author of Negotiating Graduate School: A Guide for Graduate Students, and facilitated by Capella University 's New Learner Experience Team, our free online seminar will guide you through the entire graduate school decision process, from evaluating your own readiness to selecting and applying to an online graduate degree program.

For more information, please visit www.capella.edu or call 1-888-CAPELLA (227-3552).Capella University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, located at 30 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2400, Chicago, IL 60602-2504, (312) 263-0456, www.ncahigherlearningcommission.org.

Primerica Business or Job?

While you are searching for your perfect work at home job, there maybe some companies that present themselves as jobs when they are actually businesses. I came across Primerica invitiation and it reminded me several years back my husband got a phone call from someone who had his resume and they thought that he would be a good match for this company Primerica, a subsiduary of Citigroup. Well, it wasn't a job interview but not a business opportunity meeting with 10 other people.

A bait and switch? Absolutely. They pitch that you are going to work for a financial service firm. Maybe even telecommute from your home office.

Primerica is the company itself is built in the MLM mold, where sales agents get paid for business they do, but ultimately can get paid more for recruiting people to get into the business. You get promoted by getting more people and meeting goals and such, so agents obviously are motivated to bring people in as well as do business with you.

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San Antonians spend more than 45 minutes a day commuting to and from work. The 23.7 minutes each way is very close to the national average. It just seems longer in San Antonio because of obstacle-course road construction and stop-and-go bottlenecks.

But people can do so much more at home these days. They can shop and bank, thanks to the Internet, television and telephones. Some can work just as easily at home.

As communications technologies advance to create better virtual offices, more companies are willing to give telecommuting a chance. It's a slow revolution, however, despite high gasoline prices.

About 25 percent of U.S. workers have jobs they could perform by telecommuting. Only 2 percent do so full time, however. Another 9 percent work away from the office part time — one or two days a week or each month

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Telecommuting changing the way we work

Telecommuting’ is changing the way we live and work

New work-life trends are rapidly emerging thanks to technology and the digital revolution.

Given the stresses of today’s ‘commuter reality’ in our larger cities; chronic traffic congestion, the rapidly rising cost of fuel, parking hassles, more of our own precious time wasted just getting to our places of work - is it any wonder more and more people are joining this revolution and choosing to work from home?

Whatever way you look at ‘Telecommuting’, a term reportedly coined by a Los Angeles consultant to describe this new phenomenon, broadband is offering people new choices in the way they live and work, around the world.

For example, new evidence has recently emerged in the UK to suggest more and more people will soon be working away from the office. More than 2.1 million Brits already work from home and around 8 million more spend at least some of their working week in their homes instead of at the office, according to the UK, Office of National Statistics.

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