Meredith Levinson writes in CIO magazine about a company that closed their doors, and now everyone will work at home.
“…the company decided to close its offices to save money and spare employees the hassle and rising cost of commuting and … can continue to serve customers while simultaneously saving $400,000 a year simply by closing its 15,000 square feet of office space.”
The company, Chorus, provides clinical, practice management and financial software for health care providers learned a few things along the way. You need:
• the right infrastructure to support a virtual, telecommuting set of employees.
• work policies designed to maintain employee productivity and customer service levels,
• desktop support and identify software tools to make employee workloads more transparent for managers
• to phase in the work at home plan,
• periodic meet ups and daily conference calls
Did it work? Levinson writes “CEO Schreiber…says the client services group...
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• Finding Work At Home: Part 5—ComputerJobs.comFrom: undress4success.com
Post Date: 2008-03-05 00:01:22
In our continuing search for job boards that offer legitimate work-at-home and home freelance business opportunities, we ran a cross a site called ComputerJobs.com. We were impressed with the quality of work-at-home jobs on their site so we decided to learn more about them. Here’s a summary of the interview we conducted for our forthcoming [...]...
more • Odd Work At Home JobsFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-08 07:01:17
One of the nice thing about working from home is there are many different ways to make money. We wouldn’t recommended any of these odd work at home jobs, but entrepreneurship is all about creativity.
Unlike many of the scams out there today, these people don’t ask for money up-front.
Now this one has all kinds of interesting bits in it. Let’s see, using their numbers, you’ll have 9,000 three pound frogs within a year–that’s 13.5 tons of frogs in your backyard...
more • Work At Home Scam Busting - 21 Signs of a Rip OffFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-07 07:00:25
97% of work at home websites are scams, and new swindles are launched every day. But they’re mostly variations on old themes. Here are the most common:
# 1 — Bait and switch:
They offer you a free access to their listings. They’ll even email you new listings as they’re added. Of course, the listings don’t disclose who the employers are, and the only way to apply for the job is to sign up for the web site’s resume distribution services. For just $29.99 they’ll allow you to appl...
more • Start Up Money For Home Based Businesses - Lessons From SuccessFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-09 05:52:36
If you need money start a home based business, were do you look? A good place to start is to consider where successful companies found the money they needed.
Coopers & Lybrand, one of the nation’s largest accounting firms, conducted a study a few years ago of 328 fast growing manufacturing and service companies. Interestingly, they found that most of them started without the help of outside capital. These highly successful companies, it turns out, were usually started with the founder’s ow...
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