For career women that refuse to choose between their work and their families the new word is balance, says DNA India. They want to be around when their kids need them, and they also want meaningful careers. And now there’s finally some hope they can expect to have their cake and eat it too, as […]
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The following is a guest post by Lloyd Burrell. Have you been downsized? Are you working at home to save money, or because you have to? Working as a freelancer can be both exhilarating (when the money comes in) or stressful (when you have a 300 page project to complete and your nose is all
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The ‘Made in China’ tag has become synonymous with massive factories staffed by thousands of workers, stuff rolling off assembly lines in container-load quantities, reports The Vancouver Sun. But one home-based Vancouver company is chipping away at this widely held image. Twinklebelle Design Inc. is a tale of two sisters, a small sewing group and
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According to a story at Work-At-Home Success.com, many people make working at home more difficult than it is. That doesn’t mean working at home is easy or not without effort (as the scammers would have you believe). But some people get so bogged down in the details, they never actually get anywhere. Working at home
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Inc. editor-at-large Leigh Buchanan, who has been working from home for the past four years, shares her advice with entrepreneurs (as well as her newly-virtual colleagues) on how to do it right. 1. Language is important. Tell people you “work out of my home office” or that you “work from home.” Never say, “I work
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Faster computers, broadband connections and free public Wi-Fi are taking the fun out of snow days, reports USA TODAY. The federal government was shut down for the second day in a row and many offices were empty in the nation’s snowbound capital, but work continued – in homes across the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia region. It showed just
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The line between work and home is disappearing, says former Financial Times columnist Richard Donkin in his new book. “We don’t stop living when we go to work and, very often today, we don’t stop working when we arrive home.” Technology has merged our working and personal lives, creating a more unified experience described in
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BusinessWeek is reporting that more people are working from home, and more of them are working for themselves, according to Census data released. The chart above compares the growth in the number of self-employed people working exclusively from home to growth in total home-based workers and the total number of people employed. The number of
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photo credit: petechons A recent report on Inc.com stated that home businesses continue to grow and will continue to sky rocket through the upcoming year or two. It seems that working from your home is the new trend. Not only to start your own business from home but many companies are finding it cheaper to allow
Insurance may not be the most exciting field, but opportunities abound for businesses owners willing to break away from the traditional corporate model and add their own spin, according to a story at Inc.com. That’s exactly what Chris Jordan did last March when he left his corporate insurance sales job and founded Atlanta Insurance Live,
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