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Guest Post from Tricia Sciortino Thanks to technology that enables collaboration from virtually anywhere and an evolving view of how teams can be configured, more employers today are willing to allow employees to work from home or hire…

Working from home has plenty of benefits. It’s hard to beat the convenience of only commuting down the hall, and we won’t even talk about the indignities of the shared office refrigerator. Yet for all of the benefits associated with…

Think lists of how to save energy is so 2010? Well, with more and more people working from home, we think it's time to dust off a few trusty tricks for curbing electricity consumption without curbing productivity. Working from home has been…

Although people worked from home before the Internet, the world wide web and other technological advances have made working from home easier. If you're serious about working at home, there are a few must-have tech tools you need. 1.…

I have to be honest, I'm surprised by all the debate about climate change. Why? For one, this is the only planet that currently sustains life, so we should be good stewards of it. I think the planet will continue rotating through the…

There are many challenges to working from home. One is having the self-discipline to do the work without being distracted by stuff going on at home. The other is working all the time. It's not uncommon for home-based workers to put in…

Happy Thanksgiving!! It's Thanksgiving and there is much I'm thankful for, such as the opportunity to work from home. In order to help celebrate, I've compiled a list of free and low cost resources for jobs, home business, tools and…

When Yahoo! and HP ended their telecommuting programs, many people wondered if the telecommuting wave was ending. Fortunately, the number of people who work from home, part or full time continues to grow. The reality is, working at home can…

When I tell my Baby Boomer (or older) relatives I work from home, I often get a look of pity. The concept is so foreign to them they think “working from home” is a euphemism for being unemployed.  The conversations usually go like this:…

Contributor Post Some time back around 2010 I decided that I had enough with working the 9-to-5. I put in my two weeks’ notice and sure enough after those days were over I was out on my own. The very same day I came back from my final…