working from home is an option all workers can use- or is it?

Question

from a employee point of view, is working at home a good or bad thing?

Answer 1

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The best is to look for a few offers and make sure they're real and there's no scam.

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Good luck !

Answer 2

I think employers are starting to see it as the advantage it is more and more these days. To have someone telecommuting from their home office, they cut a lot of costs on office space and equipment. If the person is actually working as an independent contractor rather than an employee they also save a lot of money on benefits, 401-K, etc.
A lot of big companies are still frowning on allowing their employees and contractors to work from home because they feel people are not as motivated when they do not have the presence of their team and superiors physically with them. Commission based positions are more likely to allow you to telecommute as they do not pay you unless you preform. Therefore, they have nothing to lose.
Hopefully, as time goes on, studies will be done proving that we work just as well from home (if not better) than we do at the office. Then telecommuting will continue to grow as an option. I think we are headed in that direction. More telecommuting jobs are listed every day!

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I have to work at home due to health problems and I refuse to get disability. I think the real question is can to find a ligit company to work for. Usually you get scamed a lot before finding one just like me. There are very few work at home companies out there but only a few. I'm so glad I finally found one I can really make an income at, not just a few bucks here and there. If you can work out in the world I say do it. I use to love it, but now that I can't I'm just happy to find something I love to do in the home.

Answer 5

I've been a full-time telecommuter since 2001 and a part-timer since 1994. Here's what I've learned.

Some jobs can never be made to work from home -- if the job physically requires you to be present on the site, you probably can't adapt it to working from home. How would, say, a race driver or a basketball player work from home, for instance? Or that driver's pit crew? Or a palaeontologist digging for fossils? Some things just require you to be there in person.

Some jobs adapt really well to working from home -- writers, certain positions in computing and journalism, investment counselors, some kinds of research, basically anything that involves information rather than moving things around. Now, in practice I have found that there are still parts of my job that require being somewhere in person; for example, last week I spent in New York, having a team meeting to set the direction of the project I'm working on for next year. This is not a bad thing as it meant I was able to see a show on Broadway, something else that really requires you to be there in person -- either as an audience or as a performer.

But there's a third category of job, and that's the job that could be done remotely with a little re-thinking of what the job is solving for. The teacher, for instance, is a good example. Now, for early childhood education it's critical to get the teacher in the same room with his or her students -- but by university level, many classes can be handled quite effectively through distance learning. Since 1996 I've been involved in prototypes and processes for managing distance learning, and for many subjects (those that involve thinking and communicating more than they involve physical movement) distance learning is an ideal solution. Not all, of course; you wouldn't expect to learn ballet or fencing or painting over the Web, but literature, engineering, mathematics, in short any subject that requires you to learn information, think critically about it, and respond with the results of your thinking can be very effectively taught via distance learning.

This re-thinking means that there are potentially many more jobs that may someday be practical to perform remotely, with a little rethinking of the real purpose of the job (as opposed to the way the job looks today). In 1995-96 I worked with a group of Web researchers who were partially funded by a NASA grant, and though we were working in digital media and learning specifically, some of the NASA folks we interacted with were also working on "telepresence," the idea that you could control machinery or equipment remotely and perform physical tasks from dozens or even thousands of miles away. The idea was that if the best surgeon in the world was in New York and the patient was in Tucson, it might some day be possible for the operation to take place over the Web, if you will -- with the surgeon operating robotic equipment (like the robot arms on the space shuttle, to get the idea of why NASA thought this was worth researching) and using as many video capture devices as possible. And, yes, there would be an emergency team in the operating room with the patient. I don't think this has gone beyond the demonstration stage yet, but it's still a fascinating possibility.

What's interesting, though, is that I'm starting to hear a different tune from employers about working from home. In the beginning, the "sell" was that the improvement in quality of life for me would lead to greater efficiency for them -- by not having to commute to work every day, I'd have more energy and attention to put into my work. (Which meant that when I DID get the okay, you'd better believe I did just that! :-) Now, five or ten years later, management is starting to say that if your best people work from home, then you have access to talent from EVERYWHERE, not just from within an hour of your offices.

So the answer as of right now is that yes, there are some jobs that really require you to be present, as well as some jobs that can be done quite effectively from anywhere with a cell phone tower and a high-speed Internet connection. But there are other jobs in the middle, jobs that could be done very effectively and be made much more rewarding and at a significantly lower cost to the environment, by working remotely. And finally, the expansion of the talent pool for these jobs will drive more and more employers to the conclusion that an expansion of telecommuting and telepresence is in their best interest as well as the interest of the worker, the community, and the environment.

Answer 6

I know some people that works from home and it seems to be working quite well. My question to you is, if you want to work from home, ever considered looking for a business opportunity that will allow you to do that and not have to return to work as you would be working for yourself? If your options are open, I would love to chat to you about what I do - [e-mail].

Answer 7

Could you be more specific? Working at home is an option for some companies but not all. What is it exactly that you are asking?

Answer 8

I often work from home, but I work in IT so its easy with all the technology we have. But its very role specific and not ideal for everyone and not permitted by many companies.

Answer 9

you can work from home but it should be a part time job. not all the people can work from house. then i can keep separate room like office can be best. but no all can work from home
because home is different and work is different

Answer 10

Nope; it's very role specific. Think Bank tillers, shops assistants, nursing staff, etc.

Some Admin roles would be good for this.