STEP #6

Telecommute One Day a Week

Here’s another brainstorm. Work at home. Telecommuting is one of the biggest breakthroughs in work today. More companies than ever before are encouraging employees to stay home and work at least one day a week, taking thousands of people off the road each week. In 2008, some 17.2 million people took 42 percent of U.S. employers’ offers to work-at-home, a 30 percent increase from 2007, according to the WorldatWork 2008 survey reported on by www.undress4success.com.

Imagine the exponentially increasing benefits if every company, large or small, offered a work-at-home option, even just one day a week.

The highways, the environment, our wallets and well-being would all benefit. And today’s technology makes it easy to stay connected to the office when working from a remote location, be it from home, Hawaii or anywhere wireless Internet connections (Wi-Fi) are available. While some traditional-thinking employers frown on off-site working, fearing a loss of productivity, the fact is, employees who don’t work well at home probably don’t work very well in the office either, and will eventually find themselves at home on a permanent basis.

Results-oriented employers know productivity and employee morale actually increase with workplace perks like work-at-home flexibility.

Telecommuting just works. It works for the country. It works for the bottom line.

Positions in professions requiring little interaction with others are increasingly transitioning to full-time telecommuting jobs. “Five million employees work from home most of the time, and another 7 million do so at least once a month,” reports undress4success.com, which is a great resource, along with sites like www.telecommute-jobs.com and www.2work-at-home.com, for locating telecommute-friendly companies from the comfort of your own home!