650,000 new jobs were posted at Elance.com this year where cumulative earnings will probably exceed $500 million by year end. Elance surveyed small businesses and found that over four fifths of them plan to hire half their workers online in the next year! Global economies may be struggling, but online work is thriving. What’s in demand [...]
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What Minimum Broadband Speed Do You Need?
One of the essential tools for a work-at-home job, as a freelancer or telecommuter, is fast web access. Modern home-offices have all kinds of uses for broadband. But Tom N. in Tennessee asked a relevant question: “How fast is fast enough?” POTS Broadband, you may be amused to learn, is anything faster than POTS. The [...]
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The Nature of Work Is Changing
When you work at home, among other skills, you need to have the ability to concentrate and keep working regardless of the distractions, maximizing your flexibility as a mobile worker. But when the carpet cleaner is there and you’ve moved all the furniture outdoors, and piled everything else on top what can’t be moved (including [...]
Commuting costs more than you think - telework!
One of our readers wrote: You do a great job of providing information, offering ways to convince employers, and helping us learn how to commute. I am a firm believer in that idea. In fact, I’m so passionate about it that I pushed my company to create an infographic based on some data we found, [...]
Home-based transcriptionists needed
Transcript Divas is looking for experienced work-at-home transcriptionists. They’re a general transcription service, and over the years have transcribed everything from heavy metal band musician memoirs to wire taps. But make no mistake, this is not an “I took typing in high school, maybe I can do it” job. With blue chip companies, hospitals and the legal [...]
