http://gigaom.com/2011/10/12/podcast-explores-the-challenges-and-rewards-of-working-from-home/ Thu, 23 May 2013 20:44:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2011/10/12/podcast-explores-the-challenges-and-rewards-of-working-from-home/#comment-673054 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:03:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=419173#comment-673054 As I am a freelance journalist and work from home, this information on podcast will be of use to any journalist who work from home.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/10/12/podcast-explores-the-challenges-and-rewards-of-working-from-home/#comment-663970 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:58:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=419173#comment-663970 Good article on this topic from last Saturday’s New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/your-money/how-to-make-working-at-home-work-for-you.html

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/10/12/podcast-explores-the-challenges-and-rewards-of-working-from-home/#comment-663928 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:23:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=419173#comment-663928 Part of the telecommuting statistics problem is the nature of the questions asked in surveys. for example, the relevant Census bureau question used to be something like: Do you get paid to work at home? My answer would be : No; I get paid to do useful work, wherever I am. Therefore, even though I have been teleworking since the mid-1960s I wouldn’t be counted by the Census Bureau. Another question is something like: Do you work full time from home? Here, too, the answer would be misleading since, according to our surveys in 2000, about 8% of American workers do so. Most telecommuters do it part time, the rest of the time spent in a traditional office somewhere. The procedures forf HOW to telecommute, or manage telecommuters, effectively have been in my books since 1994–and in our manuals since the mid-1980s.

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