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Working from home requires discipline and balance
Many people are trading in their commuter passes and cubicle life to work from home. After all, technological advancements enable remote access to servers, and just having e-mail and Internet access can provide workers all the tools they need to conduct business from a home office.
The appeal of working at home is very alluring to those who have sampled the benefits, particularly mothers or fathers who think this would be the ideal means to remaining in the workforce, while also caring for children. Many think at-home workers have it easy. Dont they have free reign to wake up late, remain in their pajamas and probably goof off more than they put in productive hours?
Thats how misinformed people view working from home, or telecommuting, as its often called. However, many home-based workers can attest that these statements couldnt be further from the truth.
FTC launches crackdown on work-at-home scams
US consumer rights organisation the Federal Trade Commission has joined up with law enforcement agencies to launch a crackdown on bogus job opportunity scams.
Project FAL$E HOPE$ encompasses 100 law enforcement actions against various bogus work-at-home scams. The bogus business opportunities targeted include vending machines, ATM and Internet terminals, display racks for coffee and ink cartridges, Internet-based businesses, envelope stuffing, medical billing, and others.
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Want to escape home office?
Half of the nation's businesses are home-based, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which means that about 8.25 million entrepreneurs work from home. And working out of the house can have its advantages -- the lack of a commute and low overhead costs chief among them.
But there are also disadvantages. It can be difficult to keep your nose to the grindstone when laundry and other housekeeping duties are staring you in the face. It also can be hard to maintain a professional image -- particularly if your dog is a barker, or your kids decide it's time for a knock-down-drag-out fight just when you get an important phone call.
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Leading Home Furnishing Retailer Anna's Linens Selects CyberShift ...
NEW YORK, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- NATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION'S 96TH ANNUAL CONVENTION & EXPO - CyberShift, a leading provider of global workforce management and expense management software and services, today announced that Anna's Linens has selected the company's Workforce Management 3G(TM) suite of products as its new workforce management system. Costa Mesa, Calif.-based Anna's Linens, the value leader in fashions for the home, operates 249 stores in 21 states and employs more than 2,000 workers. Over the next three years, the company's strategic initiatives involve major expansion efforts including increasing the number of stores and recruiting and training employees to work at these new retail locations.
"We wanted to give our store managers an automated, easy-to-use scheduling and time-and-attendance system that allows them to focus their energies on our core business: merchandising, sales and the overall daily management of our retail locations," explained Linda Wendt, vice president, Human Resources, Anna's Linens.
Putting a price on cleanliness
Housekeepers used to be only for the wealthy. But these days, middle class Americans are hiring help to do their dusting, scrubbing and vacuuming. "It used to be for the rich, but the people who need us more and more are the people who work," says Anna Manalis, who owns a housecleaning company called Home Express.
Though the company is based in Huntington, Manalis comes to the Danbury area to clean customers' homes.
"(People) don't want to spend their Saturday and Sunday cleaning their houses," she says. "Mothers want to spend time with their kids. That's why the business is starting to get bigger and bigger every day."
Bethel resident Kathy Eggert said having a house cleaner has allowed her to spend more time with her two small children. Her husband had the idea to hire a house cleaner five years ago.
