Telecommuting, e-commuting, e-work, telework, working at home, or working from home is a work arrangement in which employees enjoy flexibility in working location and hours. In other words, the daily commute to a central place of work is replaced by telecommunication links. Many work from home, while others, occasionally also referred to as nomad workers or web commuters utilize mobile telecommunications technology to work from coffee shops or myriad other locations. Telework is a broader term, referring to substituting telecommunications for any form of work-related travel, thereby eliminating the distance restrictions of telecommuting.All telecommuters are teleworkers but not all teleworkers are telecommuters. A frequently repeated motto is that "work is something you do, not something you travel to". A successful telecommuting program requires a management style which is based on results and not on close scrutiny of individual employees. This is referred to as management by objectives as opposed to management by observation. The terms telecommuting and telework were coined by Jack Nilles in 1973.
Long distance telework is facilitated by such tools as virtual private networks, conference calling, videoconferencing, and Voice over IP. It can be efficient and useful for companies as it allows staff and workers to communicate over a large distance, saving significant amounts of travel time and cost. As broadband Internet connections become more commonplace, more and more workers have enough bandwidth at home to use these tools to link their home office to their corporate internet and internal phone networks.
Long distance telework is facilitated by such tools as virtual private networks, conference calling, videoconferencing, and Voice over IP. It can be efficient and useful for companies as it allows staff and workers to communicate over a large distance, saving significant amounts of travel time and cost. As broadband Internet connections become more commonplace, more and more workers have enough bandwidth at home to use these tools to link their home office to their corporate internet and internal phone networks.
There are some types of jobs listed in the WAH Jobs:
->Data Entry
->Document Coding
->Virtual Assistants
->Legal Transcription
->Medical Transcription
->Customer Service Reps
->Freelance Writers
->Proofreaders
->Editors
->Translators
>Telemarketers
->Online Tutors
There are some types os guides to people get informed or helped about how to work at home with or without technologies:
->Homeshoring: Corporate America's Growing Work at Home Career Opportunity
->Virtual Assistant Careers: An Evolving and Growing Work from Home Profession
The possibility of working at home is great. I hope I can do that later. xD
ReplyDeleteGood post! There are several works that can be done at home, and this can sometimes help us to life, or when we have to create a child, or when we have a problem of health ...
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