Articles from December 2007

Help Us Choose the Official WFH Pro Logo!

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I’ve commissioned 3 logo designs to be produced and am having a tough time picking between them for the sole representative logo for the site. I’d like to ask you to help with that process. I’ve put together a one question survey at SurveyMonkey and if you could spare [...]

Find Out if You and Your Current Job are Suitable for Telework

Want an objective opinion on whether you and your job are good candidates for a telework arrangement?
All it takes is 3 minutes to use the Telework Exchange Online Eligibility Gizmo and it will assess and report back to you on your eligibility. It will also aid you in producing a report to present to [...]

Entrecard Traffic Brings 0:00 Average Time On Site

To my readers who come to my blog for my musings on the Telecommuting lifestyle, please bear with me a moment as I take a momentary diversion. I promise the next post to be back on topic.
As a means to drive new visitors to this site, I’ve added the Entrecard widget to the right [...]

What is Your Reason for Wanting to Work from Home?

I wanted to share the results of this poll that is being run on WorkAtHomeArticles.net regarding the top reasons why people want to work from home. When you get a chance, stop by and participate in the voting yourself. So far, the voting results are what you see above and I thought I’d [...]

SimplyHired Job Board

I’ve put up a job board on the site powered by SimplyHired and would like your feedback on the quality of the service that they provide.
The job board provides hiring managers the ability to post jobs for a fee of $5 and they will get priority display on this site. As a job [...]

Telecommuting from Paradise – Not What I Had Planned

Now for a sobering post about what happened to me this past June while I was sleeping at my home away from home. During the summers, my wife and I frequently go to the shore (in our case, the Chesapeake Bay) as many people do in my region. I often go down [...]

How to Land a Legitimate Telecommuting Job

I recently received a query from “Jo”, who is a professional business writer, asking how to find a legitimate telecommuting job. Rather than present you with one perspective, I thought I’d present you with a myriad of resources to answer that question. Some of these links provide how-to’s while others are pure telecommuting [...]

Telecommuters Paid Less than the Office-Bound

I ran across an interesting article online at the Minneapolis Star Tribune that provided the results of a survey of 46 studies looking at 12,883 employees done by the Journal of Applied Psychology. It found some not-so-surprising tidbits:

Telecommuting improved job satisfaction, performance, turnover and stress.

And some more less-expected tidbits:

Telecommuting did not harm career prospects
Telecommuting [...]