Posted on 03/17/2011 10:51:21 AM PDT by Slyscribe
You aren’t imagining things – your job has followed you home.
The fastest growing segment of home office workers is people regularly bringing home work with them, according to research firm IDC. Technology advances such as ubiquitous broadband and low-cost notebook PCs and smart phones are making it hard for workers to leave their jobs behind at day’s end, says IDC analyst Justin Jaffe.
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The beauty of blogging is that decade old news becomes fresh again. :-)
Gotta love the “New Media.”
The one thing that finally hit our company in the pocketbook was the money we were wasting on office rent and utilities. We could all do our jobs without even talking to one another. Most work was on the computers and many of our paper files were purposefully destroyed or warehoused. At home a computer w/Internet, telephone and a rapidly unnecessary fax machine were installed in an extra room with a couple of filing cabinets for old times sake. If I leave the "office", my phone can forward to my cell. I can manage my time the way I please as long as the jobs get done. I do sometimes miss the office chitchat, but the money I save on gas is outstanding!
In my case, I would save roughly 1500 after tax dollars a month. That is significant. Plus, I’d be living on my farm instead of this congested hell-hole.
Yep, beeper was an electric leash. Cell phone is an electric shackles.
I love modern technology but there is very much I detest about modern life. The grass is greener, but I wish I lived as an adult in the 50s and 60s instead of being born in the late 50s and raised in the 60s.
I don’t find much to cherish in modern US life. Maybe this is just because I am an old fart of 52 years but I think we have less liberty, more regulation, more stupidity, a diminishing moral and social culture. Don’t get me started. All of this is the reason I can’t be truly “happy” despite my personal circumstances being so good. I should be happy, but modern life and the direction it is going make me glum.
It is not fair. With my income and lifestyle, by all rights I should be a very happy man. Seeing what is coming for future generations of Americans - the government intrusion, the fracturing of family, church, and neighborhood, the heavy taxation of labor, the decaying morals, dumbing down, everybody does it.
I’m not a happy man. I should be.
Hey everybody, be sure to visit the link and click around a little to show appreciation to all those hard working bloggers that make FR a better place.
The company I use to work for (DoD Company), I was in my last week before layoff and after refusing to move to the East coast, one interesting job came up and the manager was pretty decent person. It involved no classified work whatsoever and could easily be done remotely. I live in Colorado and the position was in Maryland. I asked him if it would be possible to do this remotely and he said yes but he remarked that management may not like it. He asked and the mgt team insisted on a live person there. I didn’t want to move to Maryland. The person remarked there would be no issue but the higher ups wanted a warm body there ! I took the lay off at the end of the week.
> It’s important to me because my office is in Seattle, and I earn “Seattle wages” but my home is a small farm in central KY. I have to keep a small condo in Seattle from which I commute every day to the office and use my home more like a “timeshare” right now.
So I did an extensive search using Google and inside IBD.
All I can find is your blogging, which is rather short. Nothing wrong with that. All the other bloggers are relatively short with real depth of information.
I do see you on twitter as well.
I didn’t see you on dither, but I haven’t invented it yet.
So the question is “Why are you using Free Republic which is solely supported through the Freeper community donations as your business platform?”
Your blog is short enough that you could and should post it, in its entirety, on Free Republic.
You may have something valuable to say but the community rules by those who have a vested interest in keeping the lights on say “We don’t like to be taken advantage of”
So IBZT
I banker in my area is in jail for that.
If by "work", you mean "office supplies" ...
I used to run a small business from a home office. I didn’t end up like that guy but my problem was that I brought the business home when I was a widower and when I remarried my new wife wouldn’t stay out of my hair and let me run the business. When I closed the door to shut out noise and distractions she couldn’t stop coming up with excuses to stick her head in, apparently she thought I was trying to make a date with another woman or something.
“Maybe this is just because I am an old fart of 52 years but I think we have less liberty, more regulation, more stupidity, a diminishing moral and social culture.”
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That isn’t what you think, it is what you KNOW!
My company got a little suspicious when there was a conference room table in a trailer behind my Jeep that was eerily similar to the one that is missing.
That was a close one!
Maybe if you kiss the blogger’s butts enough one might finally donate to FR instead of trying to drive traffic away.
Probably not but feel free to try.
Oh and ping us if the liberal pimp shows back up as he hasn’t done so on any other thread he has pimped.
“Oh and ping us if the liberal pimp shows back up as he hasn’t done so on any other thread he has pimped.”
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That’s right.
Ed has posted many articles here, but he has *never* replied to a FReeper.
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