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Call Centers Come Home
In an effort to cut costs, companies have been outsourcing their call center functions for the past decade to low-wage workers in India, the Philippines and other far-flung countries. But that trend is changing as call centers are coming homeand into the homes of free-agent workers in the United States. Early adopters of the trend, which is sometimes referred to as homeshoring, include JetBlue Airways, Alpine Access, PHH Arval and LiveOpscompanies that since about 1999 have rejected traditional employer squeamishness about managing a telecommuting workforce and have made at-home agents their central staffing model. Now other employers are following suit, and the trend toward using at-home workers is taking flight. (See A Trend on the Rise.)
Some of the benefits that companies derive from tapping this workforce include reduced costs, increased staffing flexibility and an expanded pool of job applicants.
Can Working In Your Bathrobe Help You Attain Life Balance? - Work ...
Gurnee, IL (February 2007) – If your job often makes you feel tired, burned out, or stressed to the max, try a new bathrobe on for size. February 12, 2007 is the fifth annual “Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day," a time to celebrate the freedom home business ownership offers people. In fact, more than 4.5 million home business owners have waved goodbye to the pressures of the corporate rat race and have settled into a more balanced and better quality of life…working from home. Kristie Tamsevicius, co-founder of Webmomz.com, a site that empowers women who have chosen to work from home, views having a home business as the ultimate life balancer. “Some people may think that living and working under the same roof creates more stress, but in fact, just the opposite is true. Working from home gives you the freedom to schedule your work around your life, rather than the other way around.
Home in on a better lifestyle
For many people the idea of working from home is about as good as it gets. Not only does it offer a stress-free alternative to the horror of the daily commute, but it also allows you to dictate your own hours and gives you freedom from the tyranny of the office. Recent advances in technology mean that the dream has never been easier to attain. Faster broadband internet connections, smarter phones and sophisticated software and web services allow you to log in to your computer from anywhere in the world, work collaboratively with colleagues on projects over the web, and even retain a London-based phone number if you decide to emigrate to warmer climes.
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Productivity vs convenience goes the bus debate
WHILE school buses are a common sight in most countries, they are rarely seen on the road in the sultanate. Looking at the daily traffic congestion at nearly all schools, it is obvious that the majority of parents are shying away from taking up free school bus services provided by the respective schools.
Many do not realise that since 60 per cent of the country's workforce is from the government sector, time spent by a working parent sending or picking up their children from school does have an effect on national productivity.
Granted that there has been no conclusive study on how damaging the effect is, parents interviewed do admit that the school run from school to work to home and back to work is stressful.
Apart from that, taking the school bus would reduce traffic congestion, says Harris Hamdillah, a religious studies teacher in Tutong.
Entrepreneur Offers Work at Home Online Business Opportunity with ...
An online business entrepreneur has offered a unique incentive to others who are looking for an automated web site or Internet business. Those who join her in his network marketing business receive free publicity. Overton, TX/December 19, 2006/FPSnewswire/ - Finding extra income to supplement limited budgets is a major challenge for most people, and a new web site describes how to start an online business that can be run from home for little or no cost.
Marcia Warwick said she was looking for an opportunity to own a business on the Internet that would run itself with no involvement on her part. She joined the "Synergy Team." Just for joining the team her upline sponsor provided her with a free press release to publicize her new business.
"What I was looking for was a vending machine that does everything so that I don't have to.
EMI Signs Deal With Baidu, Will Drop Lawsuit Appeal (Update3)
Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) -- EMI Group Plc., which lost a copyright infringement lawsuit against Baidu.com Inc., will drop its appeal and work with the Chinese Internet search site to win advertising by offering free online samples of its music.
Baidu will sell online ads for a section of its Web site featuring streaming samples of EMI's Chinese-language music, the Beijing-based company said in a statement today. EMI and Baidu will share the ad revenue, they said, without providing details.
The agreement with Baidu, which has triple the market share of closest rival Google Inc. in its home market, may help London- based EMI boost sales in China, where 90 percent of music is pirated. EMI, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and other companies have been in talks with Yahoo! Inc.'s China unit on ways to distribute music in the country, while guarding against piracy.
