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What proportion of our personal time do we fritter away, deciding what we should be doing? How much more do we fritter away, waiting for somebody else who has some sway over our personal time? If we added up these hours, it would become a substantial time every week, for sure.

When we consider our working lives, would we fritter away this number of hours and still be able to complete all our work? Most definitely not! Whether we Work From Home, in an office, a shop, a factory, wherever it is, we make sure that every hour counts for something. We often make lists of tasks which need to be finished, then cross them out as we work through them, adding new jobs to the list and re-prioritizing as necessary.

Anybody with an Internet Business wants to optimize their site to be certain that they get at least their expected share of Online Jobs and this is one of their target jobs. They may get in a group of consultants to help with this work and will know that it has been well done if their Online Jobs improve.

Could we undertake something similar in our personal lives, therefore? Maybe if we have a few minutes to kill before we are due to meet family, we could use that time emptying rubbish bins, putting on a load of washing, cleaning the bathroom. This way, that 30 minutes has been effectively optimized. We are not simply walking around the flat waiting for the time to come for us to leave, we have done one of our many jobs.

Perhaps we could write out a list of jobs which need completing on a regular basis, with target times for how long we think each one would take. Then, if we find ourselves with just a half hour on our hands, we could review our list and cross out one or two tasks, therefore optimizing our personal time as efficiently as our working time.

Because the Internet Business has become more stable over the last few years, there are many areas where we could Work From Home, doing tasks which once would have required us to visit different firms. Half an hour on the computer and we could have our weekly grocery shopping finished and what is more delivered to our door for a reasonable cost, at a time which suits us. Searching for a CD for a young relative, where there is no knowledge of the band can become a much simpler task using online facilities. These and many other changes can help to optimize our personal lives.

Some people may think that going to such levels to optimize their personal time is unnecessary, and for some this may be so. However, as an exercise, just to see what could happen over a week and how much more free and useable time we could get, it may be a worthwhile one. We can then decide whether it is something we would want to do long term, or whether we would really rather just continue as we currently are. Only we can know what will work for us and how we should best go about using our personal time.

Hardly a day goes by without more figures being produced by the Government, trade bodies or market research companies. The employment sector is especially active in this regard and every facet of the world of work is frequentlyassessed. One of the most debated issues in the field is the growing trend for employees to Work From Home. There can be no disputing the fact that the British workforce has become more flexible in recent times. Many older people will be able to remember the times when the strength of the trade unions protected the “one man, one job” scenario. This caused such inefficiency in working practices and prevented British businesses from being competitive in world markets. A typical example of this was the motor industry with the old British Leyland company being known more for the frequency of its employees being on strike than the reliability of its cars. The best advertisement for the success of the alterations in that industry’s operating methods is that Japanese companies such as Honda, Nissan and Toyota have all established factories in England.

A newly-acquired flexibility in the United Kingdom’s workforce has resulted in staff who are capable in a range of areas and has been responsible for the word “multi-tasking”. Once this flexibility had been embraced by a company in a particular sector and the advantages had become obvious in reduced costs and improved profits, then other companies were compelled copy them if they wanted to remain competitive. At the same time as this change had been occurring almost everywhere within the workplace another less well known one was looking to show some momentum. This was the question of allowing employees to Work From Home. The vast advances in satellite technology were causing increasing numbers of workers to wonder whether their jobs, which were at that time described as office jobs, white collar jobs or some other such term, could now be described as Online Jobs.

The World Wide Web has produced the formation of a great number of new start-up companies, most, if not all of which use modern technology to the full and call themselves as an Internet Business. As many of these new ventures were not restricted by traditional working systems they were quite open to allowing workers to Work From Home. It is obvious that there are some occupations which could never become Online Jobs due to the kind of work involved but as newer technology is utilised on a regular basis this increases the possibility that a lot more workers will be able to work at home.

While an Internet Business may be happy with the notion of Online Jobs, what has been the response of the more traditional ones? This is where figures can help to furnish us with an answer. An Omnibus Survey from July 2008 showed that three percent of ALL employees always worked from home. National Travel surveys had identified the same for every year from 2002 to 2008 but their figures were based on employed workers only, not those who were self-employed. Where the figures begin to show a trend is for those workers who only Work From Home on occasions, not permanently. In 2007 five percent ofworkers worked at home once a week but this rose to 7 percent in 2008. Similarly, the figure for working at home once a month climbed from four percent in 2007 to five percent in 2008. The data imply that the established, traditional business is starting to follow the lead of the Internet Business in allowing some of its staff to Work From Home.

Technological advances over recent years have at last meant that the option is available in many industries and companies for business proprietorsand employees doing Online Jobs to be able to Work From Home. It has long been held up by news organisations[/sin], sociologists and futurologists who have been years that this is the way that society is going and before long everyone will do it.
Obviously it isn’t really like that. Being able to Work From Home is not an option for many staff members, even when they work in a company such as an Internet Business where it is possible to do so. There are choicesand difficulties in roughly measure for anybody concerned and this is what we shall be examining here.

First we will look at the benefits. The option to Work From Home has the immediate upside in saving anyone doing it the costs in time and money involved in commuting from home to the workplace. Whether it be by public or private transport or on foot, this can be stressful, expensive, affected by the elements, the possibility of being hampered by delay or accidents not to mention road or rail works. All of these things become irrelevant at once someone decides to Work From Home. Another bonus can be added flexibility. Home working means that if children need to be taken to and collected from school each day, a letter needs to be posted or an errand run, this can be done at a suitable time or built into the working day with little effect. If that flexibility is not available, perhaps because a phone needs to be manned throughout the day, there is still a benefitbecause when you Work From Home, you can work at your own pace and make sure that can work steadily without a supervisor breathing down your neck from close quarters.

The disadvantage is that if you Work From Home, stringent discipline is required and that may be why it is not suited for everybody. Traditionally, home working jobs might require light manual work such as stuffing envelopes which are paid by bit part results when the finished work is sent into the central office. Online Jobs like any other type of work still have to be done and there will be a need for a certain work rate to be maintained. An employer will usually have some kind of management system in place and however it works, the home-working person will be expected to keep to it.

This means that the normal, internet,TV and radio have to be put in their place. Children need to understand that they have to out of the workplace, remain quiet and try not to dissect each other with teaspoons while a parent is at work. There is also the problem that a feeling of isolation is often a probability as home-workers will not have the interaction with people that others in offices will have, and it doesn’t help that friends and family will never believe that anybody working from home actually does a proper job.

This is why all doing Online Jobs must keep in touch with colleagues. If they work for an Internet Business (whether a technology business or one that uses the internet as a business place) then the probabilities are that they will have software to keep in constant communication with others in the same company. Also regular meetings with co-workers can help as a physical association is important.

So the suggestions for anybody looking to Work From Home is as follows: wherever you choose to set up your workplace, make it a workplace. Make sure that you only use parts of the house that are required for work during work time, ie the office, the kitchen for drinks and lunch and the bathroom. Stick to a timetable and ensure that all in the house know that when you are working, you are effectively unavailable except in emergencies. And enjoy it.

There are many advantages for those of us who have Online Jobs which are not mentioned in the original job description. At this time of the year, I can stare out of my office window and see four tall conifer trees, each of which contains a huge number of nesting birds. Doves, magpies, tits and finches all manage to allocate themselves a bit of tree and I can observe the comings and goings of the parents as they bring food to the nests. Previously I was able to watch them incessantly bringing twigs, grasses and feathers to weave the nest prior to laying the eggs. There are also two pigeons who have been together for years and spend ages chasing together on the fence running along the side of my garden. I don’t require Kate Humble, I’ve got my own personal Springwatch!

I’m used to working for an Internet Business having done so for something like four years. This has meant that I’m in the happy band of people who Work From Home and am able to enjoy all the advantages that brings. For instance, as well as saving a great deal of money by not needing to commute to work, a side effect is that as I rarely drive often, my vehicle insurance premium fell considerably when I came to renew it. And another advantage looms as the World Cup gets ever nearer.

4 years ago I was employed in a call centre and when the early games were on in Germany, we had plasma screen televisions showing the games, and people were allowed to move their things onto single afternoon game of the group stages, we were anticipating it as everyone was certain we’d pretty much be left alone to watch the game as everybody else would be also and so not wanting to call in to talk about their credit cards. How wrong we were! It seemed as if customers who didn’t care about matters of High Civilisation had held off until the game began as if they knew what was happening at the other end of the phone. We were flat out as we never normally be during an afternoon.

This time around it’s in South Africa, and in a rare instance, the games are to be played in the UK for the second tournament in a row. Normally following a tournament in Europe, the next would be across the Atlantic or in Asia. And this time it is idyllic. Now I Work From Home, the time I spend at work is open, which means I can take a break for a game, resume work and continue with what I was doing until the next game. Like many Online Jobs, mine means that I am able make up the hours I miss for the football by either getting going earlier in the morning or going on later into the evening than I would normally do.

An Internet Business is able to work around nearly any situation, though some will obviously not be as flexible because they will have duties which are necessary at some or all times of the day, but I am very fortunate in that this doesn’t apply to me. I always used to feel jealous of people such as writers, performers and painters who were not tied to a clock or a location but would still be able to work and make time for event watching as they happened. Now I seem to have joined their number to some extend and I mean to grasp it to its full extent while trying to bear in mind that in doing so I am very fortunate. Ooh, Wimbledon!

The United Kingdom economy is gradually beginning to pull itself out from the floor of the crater to which it was consigned as a result of Gordon Brown’s economic miracle that we have been tormented by for so long.

For many people, it is not finished as they engage in a constant battle for survival to stay in employment or keep their companies in business.
For others, the war is over and lost. Many profitable businesses have gone into receivership because they have been unable to get the credit they depend on to fund the next business or just to fulfill the order book which, though full, is not ample security for the banks to be brave enough to take the risk of making finance available though overdrafts or loans. Too many have sunk taking all hands with them to the Job Centre.

Yet more people are coming out (or will be shortly) from university blinking in the dazzling light of the real world, carrying their mortar boards and a big millstone of debts from student loans around their necks. In so many cases, they are finding that a BA in Media Studies will not guarantee a fast track into top positions with a FTSE-100 plc.

The usual paths of working and establishing a career are different as is the way business is operating. One of the most costly ways for firms to do business is the outlay needed in running floorspace.
For smaller businesses however, this may be an expense that can be saved by letting workersallows them to become an Internet Business, which does not mean that they are technology firms, more that the internet is now a place that people can conduct business and gives them the option to give their employees Online Jobs.

Technology allows businesses to establish virtual call centres of remote operators where the incoming call is distributed via computers connected over the Internet between operators based at home and the central hub and connected to a secure database system which allows them to service customers and update databases, take payments and anything else they need to do.

In other cases, employees can perform more individual jobs which can involve all kinds of activity from data entry to search engine optimisation, running recruitment agencies and accountancy practices. And here is the option for people looking to find a job, because where businesses are looking for employees to Work From Home, there are choices, as is the option to start their own Internet Business and perform contracted work and do Online Jobs for existing businesses, instead of looking for traditional work which may not be available to them.

Opening costs are low too. All the equipment needed to Work From Home is a pc and broadband connection, most of which will be available anyway. The software is available to perform a multitude of tasks, very often free or at worst inexpensive. As long as there is a room in the house or apartment to work undisturbed then the option is there. It is an option that many wouldn’t realise is there and as such won’t be looking for it, but the growth of the Internet Business and knock on Online Jobs created as a spin-off is a reality and one to be grasped

In 2005, the English and Australia cricket teams played the greatest ever Test match series, including the single greatest Test match at Edgbaston where The English were victorious by 2 runs with only a handful of deliveries outstanding, in cricket’s long and glorious history.

In the winter of the following year, the English travelled to Australia for the return series. It did not go well. When Steve Harmison bowled the first ball of the first Test at The Gabba in Brisbane, it was so wide that Andrew Flintoff caught the ball at second slip. It did not improve and England were thrashed 5-0 by a very focused and sore group of Australians out to settle scores with some decisive Pom bashing.

In 2009, the Ashes came back to English grounds and although the series was nowhere near as dramatic or romantic, it was nevertheless just as fiercely contested and England again regained the little trophy and bragging rights.

In October, the English will again depart these shores to defend the title on Australian ground. We can just wish that this time will be better than the last, and in that optimism vast numbers of English fans, the Barmy Army, will decamp Down Under to go with the team, especially to the Boxing Day and New Year games in Melbourne and Sydney respectively.

But soft! What about those who cannot make the trip and so will be unable to follow the series when the games will be contested overnight on the underbelly of the globe? Some impractical answers present themselves. 1. Save Up all of one’s annual paid holiday to coincide the dates of the Tests, which may not go down well with family members. 2. Finish the job for the duration of the series, which will absolutely not go down well with family members. 3. Staying up through the night to watch might not go down well with the boss if one keeps falling asleep in post.

What to do? Well, there is an expedient answer which could work. The devoted cricket fan could look for an Internet Business which is advertising Online Jobs to people who would like to Work From Home. Other considerations should be that the working time must be completely flexible, e.g if there is a necessity to be on hand to man phone calls during usual business hours or be going out to visit clients and be present at meetings during the day, this isn’t useful. The job will need to be separat of such considerations.

This lessens the field down considerably, but not completely. There is an option which can tick the boxes, and that is to learn Search Engine Optimisation, a job which ticks the box to Work From Home as most of the work involves mostly writing articles like this one, which is not time dependent (tick) which means that they can be completed before the cricket starts or after it ends (tick). There is a necessity to occasionally visit clients, but this can be arranged between Test matches if possible (tick).

Online Jobs similar this, employed by an Internet Business are an increasing sector in Britain. Many businesses, particularly new and small ones, find that the technologies are available to let them to have their staff Work From Home which greatly brings down the costs of employing people by not needing to keep a central place of work.

Because of the situation of those who choose to do Online Jobs, another benefit that is open to those doing such work, is that they can be self employed and so enjoy tax advantages either through self employment status or by forming a limited company and working through that. There are hoops to jump though in these cases, but it is certainly worthwhile examining it as a feasible opportunity. And the finest reward of all could be that you get to see the cricket as they happen. Bliss! (tick)

It could seem like the ideal solution! Making the decision to Work From Home means there will be no daily journey to get to work. Many people who take this path are self employed, and may not have a grasp of all the legal ramifications involved. It is not merely a case of starting out in business and waiting for the money to roll in. All firms, whether run from inside the home or from outside of the home have tax responsibilities and may also need to have insurance policies set up.

As well as these legal requirements, there are other procedures which can help people who Work From Home to do so efficiently. One of the first things is to establish exactly where in the home the work will be done. If it is an Internet Business, then in all probability there will be many Online Jobs to be done and ensuring that there is an area set aside for doing this work, where there is less chance of intrusion is a good plan.

With smaller laptops now being available, it could be that the area required to undertake these Online Jobs is also small. It could be there is a section in a hallway which would be perfect for setting up a small office, if the house is not big enough to assign a whole room to the Internet Business. On the other hand, if space is not a problem, then the luxury of a business office within the house where all jobs are done would be wonderful.

Choosing working hours is another good policy to apply. This means that those around you know of when you are working and will not want to be disturbed, and when you are accessible to the family and friends.

If possible, have a phone purely dedicated to business matters. This could be a landline or a mobile phone, but maintaining it as a phone for work means it is much more easy to keep work and private life distant. During company hours, be certain that you are on hand to take business calls, but when you are not working, you can leave the phone calls to be answered by an answering service.

To take this one phase further, it is worthwhile to arrange to also have an email address which is only used for business matters. This is helpful when booking any expensing services, in order to keep receipts and invoices ready for when accountants are producing the annual report.

Finally, set out expectations. When you Work From Home it is too easy for folk to think of this as you being available whenever it suits them. After all, if you have an Internet Business you are not beholden to other people! Let those who may get between you and your career know that this is your job, you are as committed to it as you would be if you were working away from the home, and are not available all day. Advising everyone of this from the beginning can save a lot of upset and hassle later down the line.

Over the last few decades, there has been a clear cut demographic change in careers in the UK. The UK has moved from supplying goods like coal, steel, heavy manufacturing and even electronics to supplying services. This tendency is growing, as we contract out our manufacturing to more economical countries in Asia and Eastern Europe. People who have grown both professionally and personally in those failing industries, have been let go or obliged to start again in unknown and often uninteresting industry sectors. We are witnessing the full breadth of the in this situation. Clerks and shop floor operators, engineers and buyers, managers and business directors are challenged with significant decisions on retraining, relocation and significant life style alterations.

For several people, it can act as a catalyst to re-invent themselves. Business, management and marketing skills amassed and honed over the years can be passed on to other industries. The skills and the experience acquired in periods of political, economic and technological turmoil can be assets in several of the contemporary industries. One such industry sector which is benefiting from these in depth and varied skills is the Internet Business sector. Regularly regarded as the territory of geeky youths, this industry is developing rapidly. In the UK alone, the average weekly internet retail sales in April 2010 were £442 million or about 8.1% of overall retail sales. Contrast this to £300 million and 5.6% in April 2009, and you will observe that this area of the Internet Business sector has grown by approximately 47% in 12 months.

As the industry expands, more and more people will employ the internet to obtain goods and services. The industry will have to resolve many problems regarding how clients search for the purveyors of goods and services. Conversely those companies supplying those very same goods and services, needto be seen, and promoted throughout the internet business sector. To do this, marketing, advertising and business directories have also moved online. This movement has also seen the growth in Online Jobs, which are remarkably suited to this industry sector. Internet access in the UK has now reached 70% of households and the development of social network sites onto mobile telephony has really transformed how we communicate with each other and retailers. As a result it easier and more efficient for companies to have employees Work From Home. We are seeing more and more advertising sales move to internet sites. So much so, that advertising revenues for the traditional paper tabloids and broad sheets are declining heavily. It doesn’t need a great deal of intuition to realize that Online Jobs connected to the Internet Business sector, are going to be here for a long time.

So for those employees who have been, or are in imminent risk of being removed by an old or decaying industry, there is more than just hope by moving on to a exciting and rapidly expanding online marketing industry. There is a rapidly increasing movement by companies to get online and utilize the internet to access consumers. Consequently the internet infrastructure and support companies are also growing rapidly. This is producing a big demand for Online Jobs which are ideally suited for those who desire to Work From Home. Lots of the people from traditional industries are competent to Work From Home, albeit with some training in the technology supporting the Internet Business. In this case it really is a case of adding a new string to your bow.

The rules covering flexible working were introduced in 2002 and have been successful in their aim of providing increased flexibility to both employers and employees. The occasions when person’s hours are worked and the number of hours worked might fluctuate enormously as employment contracts are drafted to suit the needs of both parties. The use of part-time, term-time and flexitime working has risen gradually over the past few years. Part-time work is the most used kind of flexible working and almost every company now has some part-time workers. The education field uses term-time working extensively and flexitime is now offered by almost 25 per cent of employers in Britain. One of the more controversial options within flexible working is permitting staff to Work From Home.

]Applying the flexible working rules is mainly at the discretion of the special circumstances involving person’s duty to care for children under 16 (under 18, if disabled) or elderly dependents where the company must “seriously consider” offering flexible working options. The person has no statutory right to any of the options and must make an official application to his company to request it. A high percentage of these special circumstances, by their very nature, would appear to require a Work From Home option. While any moral company would be keen to help a worker in these cases there are some crucial things to contemplate before granting the request. This is not an area that has seen any growth in the last decade. Only 3% of staff Work From Home on a permanent basis and this has barely changed since 2002 despite the advent of the modern Internet Business which uses the latest technology to provide Online Jobs for its staff. The number of staff who Work From Home from time to time has increased gradually to about 20% of the workforce.

When a traditional non Internet Business is looking to transfer some roles to Online Jobs it must first of all assess which roles, if any, would be suitable to be performed at home. Generally these would be telephone based jobs in sales, marketing or customer service departments where an electronic client management system can be accessed from home or at the office. Besides these, some administrative, accountancy and personnel tasks could be done at home. Assuming there are some roles suitable for the switch to home working then thought must be given to the cost of equipping staff with the necessary level of technology to actually do so. This cost might also have to include training in the use of the technology.

As well as the cost there are also several operational issues which employers must be comfortable with. The suitability of the person to Work From Home is significant as many people who switch to home working find that they miss the busy office environment or find it a problem to work in isolation away from colleagues and friends. It is important to keep the remote staff involved in the business wherever possible as a feeling of isolation can produce a fall in their performance levels. Management procedures must be adjusted to monitor this closely. Finally, depending on the types of job being transferred and the employer’s line of business there may be problems associated with the removal of confidential information from the office.

From the outset, these two trends may seem to have naught in common. What could baking a cake potentially have in common with setting up an Internet Business? Well, let us consider these two totally different jobs and see if there can actually be more to link them in a common goal than originally believed.

The noticeable connection is both can be carried out when selecting to Work From Home. What else can we discover that they have in common? How about the fact that to bake a cake or to carry out Online Jobs, both expect the worker to have the necessary utensils for the job? Anybody opting to bake a cake who did not have a whisk, cake tin, cooker or one of the other many tools needed to complete the task would soon find themselves in a pickle. The same can be said for those who operate an Internet Business. Without a laptop and internet connection, they would not get very far. They would require both tools to be successful – internet connection without a laptop, or a laptop but no internet connection would soon halt work.

Both chores rely upon knowledge. This knowledge could be formerly learned knowledge or newly learned, but being aware of where to explore to flush out the information wanted to finish the job would be vital. For baking a cake it would be pointless having the flour, eggs, sugar and butter, but not knowing how to mix these, and in what measures to have the best result, or having the most brilliant mixer and oven, but not understanding how to use them. The same would be true for an Internet Business. What would be the purpose of having the highest spec laptop and the speediest broadband connection if you are not aware of how to get these to work together, or how to switch on the laptop?

Cake baking would take place in the kitchen in most instances and Online Jobs in an office, but both are methods in which you can opt to Work From Home. Cake baking may be by way of a cottage industry or purely for the satisfaction of the family, but whichever option, there is work involved in creating a lovely result which others will want to eat.

Managing an Internet Business must also produce a result which folk want to buy. There would be no point at all in having the top quality utensils in a wonderful office at home if no-one was aware of your existence and therefore you had no customers.

I hope, therefore, I have managed to show in this report how two different tasks have much more in common than may have at first been considered from reading the title. Having the right tools, understanding how to use them to get the desired results and confirming that there is somebody who will want the final product are key to both these chores. There are no doubt many other areas that these two jobs have in common but I hope this has made you reflect on the way in which two entirely different combinations can in fact have many similarities.