Explain it to the neighbours! Just because you stay at home, doesn’t mean you aren’t working and earning

May 14th, 2009 by admin | Filed under Daily News, Employment.

Don’t let appearances fool you. The next time that you feel pity for your next door neighbour, who looks like they are having a really hard time, walking about wearing a tracksuit and sneakers; it will probably transpire that your sympathy is misplaced. The truth is that UK in the recession affected time in which we live, more and more talented individuals as well as the people who employ them are discovering the benefits of working from home.

In the last two years, since the effects of the global financial downturn has begun to really hit home, the number of work at homers has increased by more than fifty percent, according to a recent survey. Those people may well have discovered the winning formula of surviving and even prospering in the hard times we are living through currently, as well as the better times we may well be living through, hopefully in the not-too-distant future.

And the formula makes for a win-win situation both for the employee or the employer. Many of those people who work from the comfort and security of their own homes do so as a full time employee, with the benefits of not having to travel to work having a three-fold advantage:
· No travel costs
· No time wasted on travelling
· No need to get dressed up or wear make- up ( if you are that way inclined)

Another sector of the “home- office ” industry that is gaining considerable impetus is the internet driven service provider. With the World market for professional native English speakers growing, there are vast opportunities available on line for the computer orientated in a wide range of skills. Through the many freelancer portals that can be rapidly found on the web, people can work anywhere in the World, and in the days of rapid cash transfers, can be paid for the work that they do instantaneously.

So the next time that you begin to suspect that the guy next door has taken up burglary as a profession, think again.