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Many employees now participate in telecommuting, but it’s often quite a task for management to transition from brick-and-mortar team meetings to managing a virtual team that they rarity, if ever, see in person. This is especially if you’re just coming on board in a new company and you’re still shaken from a layoff in private sector business, only to discover that technology has grown by leaps and bounds, and the companies that are hiring, well. . . the culture’s not exactly the same. . .
Nowadays, managers are being brought straight into the strange social media fold that blends old with new, hired in as a part of a virtual team to handle project management, monitoring employee productivity, and maintain records both from a brick and mortar office and the luxury of a laptop from home. There’s flex-time, on-call time, scheduled work hours – and while it may seem as if you’re working all the time.
Relax – you’re a manager, right? You’re a people person, right? Then telecommuting was made for you – and yet it wasn’t. In truth, your telecommuters are overly productive – and in most cases, you can trust employees to carry out work tasks wherever it makes sense, at home, at Starbucks, in the library, on the bus – anywhere there’s an internet connection and it makes sense. Micromanagers don’t do well with telecommuters at all – employees chosen for these roles perform some or all of his/her work independent of direct supervision. Technology is what enables them to do – but their disciple and skills are the reasons they were placed in the role to begin with.
What parts of the telecommuter’s relationship need to be defined between the manager and the employee? Here is a short checklist to get started :
- Provide a clear definition of telecommuting
- Employee and manager must mutually agree on telecommuting schedule
- Definition of core hours (if used)
- Conditions of employment will not change due to telecommuting
- Telecommuting agreement must be signed by employee and his/her manager
- How to handle changes to the agreed telecommuting days and/or hours
- Description of cancellation rules (by employee or his/her manager
- Providing adequate home office space
- Describing what the employee is expected too provide at home
- Employees responsible for establishing and maintaining a safe work environment at home
A good telecommuting manager needs to be able to be the epitome of flexibility and be able to bridge the gap between authority levels – when you have telecommuters, there should be no such thing as red tape when it comes to simple tasks such as getting copies, ordering supplies, and putting in other requests that normally take unneeded paperwork in the office. Because telecommuting traditionally means increased productivity and accomplishments, a telecommuting manager should develop a bond with his/her employees, and work hard to remain on the same side as them. With proper planning, training, management, and communications, employee productivity can increase dramatically, and you’ll be able to build a powerful and highly respected virtual team.

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Independence is the mantra of twenty first century. Right from students to grown ups, all are aware of their virtues of independence and they like to exercise it in every sphere of life. Then why students should depend upon their parents for paying their tuition bills and fees? They can instead opt for work at home opportunities and earn their own money legitimately.

Yes, this is very much in vogue these days and one cannot find anything harmful with this kind of system. The students also get to explore their talents and utilize their skills better. The opportunities are vast and they are available in many spheres. Also there are many advantages of opting for work at home jobs. They are:

1) Easy work schedule: You are not bound to your duty. With little experience, you will be able to sketch your own working schedule according to your choice and this will put you in better position both mentally and financially.

2) Good income: The online jobs pay you much more than other ordinary jobs. Well, it is true that you are still not equipped academically to meet the demands of external working environments. However, the work at home jobs are designed as per the convenience and you may exercise great degree of autonomy while working for yourself.

3) In majority of these jobs, you need not invest money and start earning money just for working for someone else.

4) There are literally thousands of opportunities waiting for you. Just keep your eyes open and even you may seek elders’ help in finding the legitimate jobs for you.

5) Now, the work at home 99 directory is there for your help. Just search properly, study various opportunities well, and finalize what suits you the best.

6) You can continue your studies really well due to meeting the financial demands posed by your studies.

7) Also this way you can lift the burden off the shoulders of your parents who will feel proud that you are engaged in something constructive.

8) With many job opportunities, you can learn newer tactics, business genres, and disciplinary actions that will help you in great stead throughout your life.

There are also different “work at home” jobs available, they are:

* Article writing: this is the job that is most useful during student life. You exercise your skills of essay writing in schools and apply it in practice. Also you can polish your writing skills by indulging in academic writing. Many people who have started writing in school life are doing so even after many days out of school.

* Affiliate marketing: This is also one of the interesting job for kids. Though they have to learn few of the basics of marketing for this field, nowadays due to overflow of marketing strategies, this work is quite easy for students.

* Online data entry: This is also one of the most sought after jobs during student life. It is quite easy and no special skills need be learnt for working with any data entry firm. However choose the firm that has legitimate options and will not deceive.

Make use of work at home directory to find more jobs and enjoy your freedom to the fullest!

Whether you are a starter or experienced in work at home jobs, data entry remains all time favorite. It is one of the easiest jobs to do from the comforts of home. There are people who keep searching for jobs because they are not aware of the data entry jobs that are available in plenty. If you ask any work at home expert, he will say that data entry is one of the most desired jobs in the field. You can exercise your own working hours and also ask for the jobs that may help you gain more money by working long hours.

This flexible working schedule has made data entry jobs so very popular. Let’s see

what the data entry jobs need exactly?

1) The data entry jobs require entry of varied information and its management through computer. You may work as a home typist, online word processor, online transcriber, or information processing specialist.

2) Also the data entry requires making of different reports, correspondence, lists, records, spreadsheets, and databases. You may initially feel the work as time consuming but once you are experienced, you can do your work in almost half time.

3) You may take less work if you are busy with some other work. But once you accept the job, you have to be particular about the submission of the work on time.

4) Medical and legal transcriptions: You need to hear the information on audio file and enter the information. It is a typing job and can be learnt at various institutes too.

5) Medical coding: this job also comes under data entry job in which you need to enter and manage the accurate sensitive medical data. Correspondence courses are available where you can learn the techniques of doing these entries.

6) Litigation coding: It requires capturing the information from scanned documents and assisting legal professionals manage their files. Many data entry jobs and companies hire such professionals. With little training, these jobs are pretty easy and high paying right from the comforts of your home.

Advantages of data entry jobs:

1) You are your own boss and can exercise full flexibility in your work schedule.

2) Earning a six-figure income is very much possible while doing data entry jobs from home.

3) You can create a lifestyle of your own choice and work as much or as little as you want.

4) You can quit your boring job that has full schedule.

5) You can either work for earning the primary income or support to your existing income.

6) Whether you are a writer, programmer, designer, or any other non-professional, you can work for data entry projects that can help you marvelously raise your financial as well as work status.

Just make sure to use legitimate work at home 99 directory and find the job that suits you. There are also many other work at home opportunities apart from legitimate data entry jobs. These jobs can fulfill your ambitions to rule the world no doubt!

One and a half hours is my usual commute time to my current work place. It takes forty-five miles to get there. During winter storm it takes much, much longer. . . I certainly have enough time to listen to the Boston Public Radio (WBUR station), and my thoughts usually start with “WHY are we all sitting here?”, slowly moving, wasting fuel, and finally contributing our share to the Global Warming. . . Good Morning (or Good Night) America on Wheels!

WBUR is not for the weak of heart. Domestic topics range from how big is a golden parachute for a CEO who failed to manage a bank or corporation (usually an eight digit number), to sliding dollar and looming recession . . . All symptoms, all the information that could drive us crazy and push us out of our driver seats. . . Yet, I listen to my favorite radio station with great pride that we are still driving and going to our jobs to keep America moving . . .

Our destination is clearly articulated. The verdict for all of us is “guilty”; we are guilty of not spending enough or not saving enough and, it seems as if no matter what we do “We are doomed!”. But my Russian common sense forged in trenches of communism and hardened by capitalism is refusing to give up. There is a proverb from my old days “Saving life of a drowning man is the business of that drowning man!” Since I cannot separate myself from the rest of us sliding in to recession, I find myself thinking how to stop that. I have enough time; say a couple of weeks to find a solution. Otherwise, this contract with the bank will be the last of what I could get from this economy. Well, unemployment is still guaranteed, but it will not cover all my recent acquisitions and multiplying loans (Note: nobody can blame me for not spending enough to keep our economy running; I am a patriot after all!).

I am a deeply technical person. I am thinking in technical terms, and always trying to crunch through the numbers. How many of us are commuting every day? In fact, an overwhelming majority of people between 20 and 60 years old do, roughly a half of US population of 300 million. The analysis [1] gives us a number of 220 million. What is the average commute? It is approximately 16 miles one way. Expecting 20 miles per gallon, we consume about 300 million gallons of gasoline for the nation’s one working day commute. It takes up nearly 75% of the total US gasoline consumption according to at least two sources [2, 3]. These numbers represent quite rough estimate, and relate to gasoline only (there are also kerosene and diesel fuels), but we do not need exact numbers. It answers the question of who consumes most of the gasoline. We do! And we do that by commuting. Subsequently, commuting is a source of increasing fuel demand and pricing, air pollution, traffic creation, cause of political instabilities and intrigues around the world, etc. This list can go on and on for quite some time.

So what if we stay at home and work remotely (telecommute). . . First question is how many people are doing that, and for how many days per week? Google search for “telecommuting in US 2006″ brings up pretty diverse information. The estimate ranges from 12 millions full time in 2006 (5. 4% of working population) to more realistic 2% full time and 9% part time [5]. I observe the latter number of 2% in the bank department that I’m working for.

Well, we are not making much progress in telecommuting field. Good old UK was doing much better back in 2002 with telecommuting rate of 7. 4% [6]. Another question is what is the percentage of workers who can telecommute without negatively impacting the business process? I did not try Google to find an answer to such a sophisticated question. What I see from my personal experience of IT professional, at least 50% of office work can be done at home. At my consulting job, I see some of my colleagues once in two weeks, if I walk by. Otherwise, I do my work glued to my computer monitor, exchanging information via email and internal chat system. We do remote conferencing and project management. I do it in the same way as many of you do every day.

I would like to set the following goal “Everybody who can stay at home and do his or her job remotely should do that!” As we transition more and more toward “service” economy, we have a chance to eventually move everybody out of the main office, or at least 90% of us sitting in a computerized cage and laying golden eggs by processing information.

Both government and business establishment generally agree that telecommuting is a good thing. That is all. The mutual agreement is that a good thing is good. Nothing more, nothing less. There hasn’t been a real concerted push toward telecommuting. Not even close.

Here is my proposal on how to move things forward. As all of my proposals, it is real, and it is doable. First of all, we need a technology to support telecommuting. The most of it is already in place. Internet infrastructure (many thanks to Mr. Clinton and Mr. Gore) is available across most of the US. Computers are really inexpensive (about $600 for a telecommuting-ready system). There is IPSec VPN, and even better SSL VPN to connect to the main office. We might need an integrated solution out-of-the-box, which would be easy to install as in “VPN plug-and-play”. However, I would like to stress that we already have all the necessary ingredients to get started.

Secondary, we need to encourage all the US businesses to implement telecommuting as a solution as soon as possible. Here is the trick. I am proposing for US Congress to pass a legislation requiring all employers to pay for their employees commuting fuel expenses. That is it – an average of $1,200 per employee per year. I name it “Commuter Reimbursement” (CR).

Logically, why should WE pay for our commute in the first place? Commute is often not an important consideration when businesses choose their location. There is neither government nor business supported program for decreasing commute, thus saving OUR money. They simply do not have a strong incentive to care. We, commuters, do, and Global Warming and air pollution is a big concern as well.

I am not buying an argument that $1,200 will be an unbearable burden to US businesses. The credit is on the order of annual salary raise. Median income per US household member [7] is about $27,000, thus CR represents only 4. 4% of it. After all, according to David C. Johnston “Free Lunch” [8], US corporate management owes us the salary rise since mid 70s, so please, be kind and give it us once in 30 years, thus indicating your participation in our mutual struggle with the rising fuel cost and inflation, Global Warming, pollution, you name it.

There is a good indication that CR will work. We all know how business management likes to save pennies (moving the bounty to golden parachutes), this price tag will work very well to encourage progress; I mean moving to real telecommuting with the goal of getting 30% or more of the US workforce working remotely.

How do we implement CR? I can think of several ways, but let’s leave it to the US Congress to figure it out. I got an idea, and they need to do their share as well. Hopefully, they will not invent a way to make it completely useless, so we don’t end up paying our employers for our commute!

How long would it take to implement? Considering that almost everybody is winning (see below), I would optimistically expect CR Law passing within one year. Thus, at the end of the second year we can expect a moderate reduction in commuting at 30%, with the year average of 15%. The price for the oil will drop possibly returning to $30 per barrel. The gasoline price will return gradually to $1. 50 per a gallon (average for this year of $2,25). Thus, average CR for the second year will be around $750. For the third year we can expect it dropping even more to approximately $400, given that number of commuters stays the same. However, we should expect it to be slowly decreasing. As you see here, there is market self-regulation – initial CR of $1,200 should be dropping, and CR and the price of the telecommuting installation will regulate the number of telecommuters. This is a normal market regulation when we have enough resources, not the extreme we have now when any speculation fuels the market and drives price up continuously.

Let’s see who will be the winners. Of course, we, commuters, will win as well as all the people in the US and around the world. Businesses will make CR money back very soon (decreasing office leasing expenses), or significantly decrease the payment. I would expect at least 30% reduction in traffic (no traffic jams any more), and 30% less total US consumption of gasoline. That would be out real contribution to solving the Global Warming problem.

All the US population will win saving money, and our economy will bloom again.

US global interests will also be a big winner. Hugo Chaves (small but continuing headache) will lose as Venezuela cannot survive with less than $60 per a barrel, and outgoing Russia’s President Mr. Putin will lose a lot of his power as well. Putin has been busy helping Russia flex muscles against the West in the last few years, mostly by leveraging increasing Russia’s oil revenues. No more this sly Russian former spy and dictator will have funds to develop new missiles and nuclear submarines. Russia economic success of last few years had been squarely based on high oil price. If it drops, Russia’s government ambitions of Great Resurrected Russia will deflate as quickly as they did during USSR collapse.

Who else will loose? Of course, oil companies which were too slow to embrace alternative energy. Global Islamic terrorist network will suffer money shortage, as Middle East tycoons loose a substantial part of oil revenues. Somehow, I don’t think our nation will shed too many tears for them.

Does US Government have enough guts to move forward with my telecommuting incentive plan (i. e. legislating a $1,200 “Commute Reimbursement” plan)? Possibly not, if we are just talking about out commute problems and Global Warming; but it might change to “yes” considering that this plan can resolve its political problems as well.

Some people would say that the proposed solution is a temporarily one. Yes, but we need it now, we need to start cutting out fuel consumption now, otherwise WBUR and all the economy doomsday experts are going to say “See, we told you, the recession is coming. . . And you did nothing to stop it. . . “.

Self-advertising: Does my idea intrigue you? I have a few more. Interested parties, please feel free to contact me mutin@rubos. com.

References:

1. Gary Langer. Poll: Traffic in the United States. Feb. 13, 2005. ABC News.

2. Clean Cities Program Saved US One Day’s Gas Consumption in 2006. Environment News Services. http://www. ens-newswire. com/ens/oct2007/2007-10-01-097. asp

3. How much gasoline does the United States consume in one year? http://auto. howstuffworks. com/question417. htm

4. Earn well, leave cheap. May 22, 2006. Les Christie, CNNMoney. com.

5. Most With Option to Telecommute Prefer to Drive. June 13, 2006. News Report.

6. Telework in the UK: Who’s doing it?

7. Houshold income in the United Stats. Wikipedia.

8. David C. Johnston. Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill). Dec. 2007.

Authors: Daniil M. Utin, MS, Mikhail A. Utin, Ph. D.

Copyright (c) Daniil M. Utin, Mikhail A. Utin, 2008

Contact information: Mikhail A. Utin, Email: mutin@rubos. com; Daniil M. Utin, dan@cidc. com

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I would recommend the Home job stop 

• To all those people who want to work from home, and are looking at home employment opportunities.

• Those people who are interested in home employment, but do not know how to go about it in a systematic and methodical manner.

• Those people who are more interested in telecommuting and have lost patience with telecommuting job listings upon the Internet.

• Those people who want to make a profit by earning money online through telecommuting.

• Those people who want to make a success of home employment.

• Those people who have no intention of sending spam and chain mail letters in order to get their business done.

• If you happen to be US-based and are interested in telecommuting and work from home jobs.  

• If you are willing to spend the time looking for the work from home job of your choice, because you are going to see new job listings everyday.

Benefits and details of Home job stop 

This is one of the most innovative ideas in the market out there, especially when you are looking for telecommuting and work from home opportunities.  Not only do you have the option of picking and choosing from the thousands of telecommuting job listings, but the most get profitable home employment.  Home job stop has absolutely nothing to do with any sort of commercial advertising, and that is why you can be certain that you are going to get completely legitimate job listings.

Benefits and features list of Home job stop 

• Home job stop has received a clean chit from BBB and  RipOffReport, which means that it is a completely legitimate website.

• Amazingly impressive database, which is going to tell you all about telecommuting job listings and work at home jobs.

• This database is  going to tell you all about home employment, and how you can choose the best help wanted ads out there.

• They happen to have an updated record of every possible work from home job opportunities on the Internet, which is completely scam free.

• You do not have to pay a single red cent to any company which is doing its job listing here.

• Home employment listings are divided into a number of categories, so that you can look for the job listing of your choice.

What customers are saying about Home job stop 

• I was under the impression that a 9-to-5 job was quite enough for me, but I was laid off when our company downed shutters.  I began to look  for other options in telecommuting job listings on the Internet, but I was very disappointed until I found out that Home job stop had the complete database and information about telecommuting and work from home for me-Joseph D.

• Work from home has never been so easy.  Nowadays, I have  noticed that many people are going in for work from home options, because telecommuting jobs are getting to be very popular.  But you can get all that information at Home job stop  and that is why I consider this knowledge full value for money-David J.

• I am a stay at home mom, and I was looking at telecommuting job listings upon the Internet.  But I could not get any work from home opportunities of my choice.  My sister Jenny put me onto Home job stop and may I say, it has revolutionized my life.  Not only do I get telecommuting job listings, but I get plenty of work from home opportunities delivered in my mailbox.  This is just amazing!  Anita P.

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There are a lot of kids from 1st grade to college that could use some help with their schoolwork. Parents are often not able to give them the help and attention they need to get them back on track on a particular subject. A tutor is the perfect solution.
While there are many people who will tutor locally, in the student’s home, or their own house, the idea of an online tutor is still fairly new. If you have been tutoring kids in your neighborhood, taking your tutoring job online to attract more clients may be a great idea.
If you haven’t worked as a tutor, but this sounds like an interesting idea, take a look at your skills. Are there particular subjects in school that you excelled at?
You will need a website to promote your service, as well as a way to communicate with your young clients and their parents. Let’s take a look at a couple of different ways you could tutor your students online.
Email
Your students can simply email you questions they have. You answer the email and send them exercises and practice tests this way. Even if you are not using email as your main means of communication, keep it in mind when you want to get something to your students while they are not online, or to send them exercises and other files.
Chat Program
Using a chat program will give you more one-on-one interaction with your student. You are able to respond to their questions immediately and will also get feedback from your students. You can check right away if your student understands the problem you are explaining. The students can also ask follow up questions immediately.
Instant Messenger
Instant Messenger works very similar to a regular chat program. There are quite a few instant messengers available for free download. You get the benefit of the chat software without having to install it. Most kids will already be familiar with using Instant Messenger, making it easy to get started.
Message Board
The message board is another great tool to stay in contact with your students. Just like email students will be able to ask you questions any time of the day and you can respond during your regular working hours. If you have a group of students on a similar subject, they may benefit from being able to read and discuss their questions among themselves in addition to getting help from you.
Video Conferencing
Video Conferencing is as close as you can get to being in the same room with your students. You will be able to see your students, observe how they are doing and are also able to read their body language, which can help you determine if your student understands what you are talking about or not. Video Conferencing services have become very affordable over the past year, making this a viable option for you as an online tutor.
You could even offer a subscription-based service that would give students and their parents access to a database of tutorials, articles, FAQ’s and other resources compiled by you to help the kids with their school work. If becoming an online tutor sounds like something you are interested in doing, give it a try. Get the word out and start accepting a few students.