Can employees be trusted to work from home? It’s the age old question that bugs any employer who offers, or is thinking of offering, flexible working to any of their employees. Of course, all the evidence suggests that employees who are able to work from home and fit their job around other commitments are not only happier […]
Working from home has never been more popular – at the last count the number of people working remotely was some 4million and rising – and while evidence suggest remote workers are happier and more productive than their office-based contemporaries, we reckon it’s all about getting the balance right. That’s because even if individual workers are more productive […]
Are you always turned on? OK, let’s put it another way – do you have trouble switching off from work? Most of us, at one time or another, will have had occasions when we can’t switch off from work – usually when we’re up against some tight deadlines or just have a mountain of work […]
Have you heard the one about the housewife who earns up to £75,000 a year working from home? How about the one where you double your salary by working just ten hours a week -from home?! What about the old classic where you can pick up £3,000 a week – while working at home?! If […]
Home workers are more productive than those who are stuck in the office from nine-to-five, according to research from the London School of Economics (LSE). The findings showed that those who work from home are grateful for the flexibility and the time saved through missing the daily commute is put back into work – proving that getting up […]
The UK is home to some 4.2 million home workers – a 30% rise on the number who were working from home at the turn of the millennium – and the reasons why it’s taken off so much over the past decade are wide and varied. The economic downturn has played a part – some […]
So, how many of you enjoyed the relative pleasures of working from home today – it being National Work from Home Day and all? If you did then you were in good company as figures released today by the Trade Union Congress (TUC) reveal more than 4million people now regularly work from home – a […]
A futureologist at BT (yes, such a position actually exists, crystal ball skills a bonus) believes the office-based nine-to-five will soon become a thing of the past as we have now reached the point whereby those in “knowledge-based” professions can effectively do their jobs with little more than a computer, phone and internet connection. Dr […]