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Do you share the dream?
The dream of working from home where children (if you have them) play happily at your feet, you’re free to make your own hours and, best of all, you can spend the entire day in your PJs? Sounds too good to be true? It is!
Working from home and maintaining professional manners can be a tricky tango. In reality, the dream is interrupted by a laundry pile that calls our name, office hours that make a punch-clock look appealing and living day after day in yoga pants. The same reasons we wouldn’t (or shouldn’t) tote a load of whites to wash at the office should motivate us to establish good work-from-home boundaries
More and more companies are taking steps to ease the burden of record-high gas prices. The most popular option: A compressed workweek of four ten-hour days.
(Fortune) — How did you get to work today? The average U.S. commute is now about 30 miles and, with gas at a record $3.97 per gallon, that can hit employees’ wallets pretty hard. (Oh, you’ve noticed?)
So some companies are making efforts to help out. In fact, according to a new survey by Chicago outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, most companies are doing so. The firm polled human resources executives in companies large and small in a wide range of industries, and founf that 57% said they’ve launched at least one program, and usually several, designed to beat the high cost of commuting.
Telecommuting
Of the 84 Best Companies that allow employees to telecommute or work at home at least 20% of the time, these 10 have the highest percentage of telecommuters.
Legit Work-from-Home Websites – and the Scams
ByCBSNews
(CBS) NEW YORK — Some work-at-home websites can actually work for you, while others are just scams that will work for — the fraud artists behind them, while costing you money.
That’s the bottom line from AOL Consumer Adviser Regina Lewis. The trick is knowing the difference.
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Work-at-Home Schemes
MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING: Typical Ad– “Our products make it possible for people like you to earn more than they ever have in their lives! Soon you can let others earn money for you while you and your family relax and enjoy your affluent lifestyle! No experience necessary.”
Multi-level marketing, a direct sales system, is a well-established, legitimate form of business. Many people have successfully sold the products of reputable companies to their neighbors and co-workers. These people are independent distributors who sell popular products and also recruit other distributors to join them. On the other hand, illegitimate pyramid schemes can resemble these legitimate direct sales systems. An obvious difference is that the emphasis is on recruiting others to join the program, not on selling the product. For a time, new recruits who make the investment to buy product samples keep money coming into the system, but very few products are sold. Sooner or later the people on the bottom are stuck with a saturated market, and they cannot make money by selling products or recruiting. When the whole system collapses, only a few people at the top have made money—and those at the bottom have lost their investment.
