| It might sound like a dream come true when you are | | | | have those many quality hours to spend with their |
| offered a project you can do from the comforts of | | | | families. Then there is the safety for all telecommuters |
| your home without having to commute to and from a | | | | that doing away with commuting long hours everyday |
| place of work everyday. This is the world of the | | | | provides. |
| telecommuter, a person who works over the Internet | | | | Thousands of employees around the world are eying |
| through a computer installed at home. This is also | | | | the chance to mark their attendance at work from |
| known work-at-home projects and in contrast to what | | | | their home office. Only a fortunate few have earned |
| people might think, you need to be more dedicated to | | | | this position through their workplace, with most of their |
| the job in order to earn a decent living as a | | | | co-workers grumbling unmentionables under their |
| telecommuter. For there are many distractions for the | | | | breath. Others fed up of waiting for their boss to offer |
| telecommuter at the home front. One needs to be | | | | them the opportunity to convert to a telecommuter are |
| focused when working as a telecommuter as this is | | | | jumping ship and changing over to a job that allows |
| the kind of work that pays for the work you do and | | | | telecommuting usually taking on the roll of an |
| not a monthly salary as you would expect. | | | | independent contractor. Before you take the dive into |
| Millions of people around the world are already taking | | | | the home employment business - or telecommuter |
| advantage of the benefits of telecommuting and the | | | | business as it is called - you should consider what it will |
| trend is growing tremendously and is expected to | | | | take to make it to your dream. You should have a |
| cross unexpected levels in the coming years. | | | | tried and tested plan to become a telecommuter, or |
| High-speed internet connections, laptop computers and | | | | you will be like so many others who have taken the |
| email enable the telecommuter to work from a | | | | dive and are now aimlessly splashing around. |
| distance instead of having to travel to and from work | | | | Employers have a great and very rational fear when it |
| everyday. Working out of conventional office setting is | | | | comes to taking on telecommuter staff is that they |
| very convenient and productivity seems to be | | | | don't have any way to monitor what the telecommuter |
| improved while reducing travel time and the | | | | is doing through the work hours. It takes plenty of trust |
| ever-increasing cost of transportation. The number of | | | | to assume an employee is hard at work when they |
| people joining the telecommuter population is predicted | | | | are out of sight. You would do well to help the boss |
| to reach 9.9 million by 2010. | | | | eliminate these fears by proposing ways to track and |
| If you are an employer you will understand the various | | | | share your progress. This will also help you make sure |
| benefits that can come from having telecommuter | | | | you are making the most of your opportunity while still |
| employees. The greatest benefit is the time that is | | | | fulfilling your work responsibilities. |
| saved from traveling and allowing your employees to | | | | |