Friday, July 22, 2016

More office skip work at home

Nearly 40 percent of professionals holding a bachelor's degree or more for the entire national or work at home field, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Ohio small class between states for full-time teleworkers, studies show, but local companies have seen an increase in the number of people who enjoy flexible work options. Several said they had more than one third of the employees who are working remotely.

Both enter the millennial generation baby boomers and work, preparing for retirement cause demand options for more flexible labor increasing, according to studies.

"While we had to work 40 hours a week, 8 hours a day mentality, which was pretty standard. But now it seems to be a little setback," a search engine brie said Reynolds, head of online content FlexJobs.com, work a study conducted Tele recent years.

Part of this change has to do with an increase in the concert business - companies like Uber, Airbnb and others that facilitate self-employment. Other workers seek paths of side projects, to meet the different interests at stake, Reynolds said.

Despite a reaction high profile a few years ago, when companies such as Best Buy, Bank of America, Zappos and Yahoo reduce or stop telecommuting programs, shows the trend that flexible working hours, replacing traditional jobs September 5 offices.

From 2003 to 2015, the proportion of employees who have part or all of their work at home increased from 19 percent to 24 percent, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Survey of American time. For hold at least a bachelor's degree, the figures increased from 32 percent to 39 percent.

In addition to 40 percent of nearly 1 to 5 employees work part-time in 2020 with us for this figure to rise, according to a report from Intuit. Most of these workers, 78 percent are part-time by choice, shows the BLS survey.

Local companies

Less than 4 percent of workers in Ohio was in 2013 full-time teleworkers according to census data from the US, but this number can vary depending on local business trends are to be increased.

Assurant insurance company, more than 600 employees in Springfield and Dayton work at home all or part of the time, especially in the positions of customer service and accounting, according to the company spokesman, Robert Byrd.

"This is more than a third of the Springfield / Dayton workforce, compared to just over 20 percent three years ago," he said.

Across the company, Assurant has approximately 3,000 employees to work from home.

Start Working Source, one of the largest employers in Dayton with a total workforce of 2,900, 35 percent of its employees at work, or to move positions, according to Dan McCabe, Executive Director.

Mobile employees have areas covering members provide care management and have no special area dedicated to them, he said.

"We offer a job in the housing option or local alternative to commercial employees, as it supports our mission," McCabe said.

The Working also source policy allows talent in the region to recruit, with no restrictions on where it grows, he said.

"We see in particular the value of the work at home and mobile workers to serve the very rural communities," McCabe said. "It would be difficult to meet the needs of our members, when we could not have employees in these positions."

Working source continued to expand its presence in downtown Dayton with four locations, including the space rented Kettering Tower.

Assurant has a program of work at home in Springfield started there gain about eight years and to keep employees, to avoid the traditional desktop change, wanted to help and change Byrd he said.

"We want a good place to work - even though this place turns out to be at home", said: "We believe that the people who love their environment and their surroundings are, probably the team members happy and effective to be.".

Teradata, based in Dayton, has about 10,000 employees in the region and around the world about 400, has been named one of the 100 companies FlexJobs.com remote jobs in 2016 to monitor The list is based on companies that the largest number of jobs home work from- on the search page in 2015 demonstrated.

The company spokesman, Michael O'Sullivan said he could give no figures, the number of employees working on site by the remote program in the middle of virtual work Teradata.

A mixture of work

work through flexible working opportunities for full-time, Judy Keller and her boyfriend Michael Routt are directing able a furry dog ​​daily business and boarding Friends Fun House ,, outside his home in Beaver.

It is a house full-time career for Routt while Keller is able to run in the evenings and on weekends and when at home contractor working as a graphic designer for a defense.

"We work a little tag team, where I work full time, and I provide, then your income is savings," said Keller. "Sometimes I work from home on Friday or go in half a day and work to the rest of the day at home because Fridays are a very large volume of day for us."

The main business was born Keller was looking for a colleague for a dog. Then he began to move the rental to offer their services DogVacay.com attic.

When he met Routt, a former electrician, mechanic and maintenance personnel who took the opportunity to build a real business, which could have more control over their work.

"I am surprised that you can do this and make money," Routt said. "I told myself, at this moment, I do not want to transport a refrigerator on four floors."

Matthew James, the Trivia working with a twist in four cities in Ohio from his home in Cincinnati, has his business passed through a similar realization that he was not happy in his previous work.

After running restaurants for years, he was selling insurance and said it was not for the life of nine to five.

"I was late for work every day," James said.

Now the business remotely and on their own schedule goes through Google Drive and Hangouts video conference with nine employees in Cincinnati and Dayton.

Not being tied to a physical office allowed him the business to grow and create jobs, he said.

"If I had to have a brick and mortar ... I could not get my costs go," James said. "The reason why we can do it, and calculate what I charge and pay what I pay my employees that I created an office in my house. I have to pay $ 8000 not per month rent."

Advantages and disadvantages

The advantages outweigh the disadvantages, he said, but there are some pitfalls.

"You have to motivate yourself every day. Today I woke up at 11:30 am and ordered a pizza," James said.

Distractions are also a problem, Keller said, and a loss of privacy and the blurring of home and office environments.

"We just always on call," he said.

Homeworkers investigate FlexJobs.com is the main complaints the feelings of isolation are, and fears about the lack of face time with the boss.

"Some people are afraid that they will be forgotten for things like promotions," Reynolds said.

The greatest benefits of homework cited the savings - in time and money.

FlexJobs.com estimated average annual savings for teleworkers to $ 4,300. These include gas costs or transport costs wardrobe, dry cleaning services and issues like lunch in restaurants with colleagues.

The companies see savings also Reynolds, real estate and operating costs due to smaller offices move.

Various studies indicate the average time of nine to 14 days per year, or as Reynolds said, "a number of vacation."

"Above all, care for working parents for the people ... these two areas are some of the people who most want," Reynolds said. "They are not willing to sacrifice this time the most."

Baby - Boom

Boomers, although most in the generation of employment, remains a driving force, the flexibility it seeks approaching retirement, studies show.

Approximately one third of the workforce of the United States is in the age group of 50 years, according to BLS.

With the prospect of workers with key skills, experience and skills management company Society for Human Resources surveyed in 2014 about losing the difficulty of retaining older workers.

Asking the inability flexible work station (47 percent), flexible working hours (44 percent), and the flexibility of working hours (43 percent) were three of the four most important reasons given for workers to lose Age.

The most popular companies step done to hire older workers or retain is to offer a reduced schedule or part-time. This strategy was followed by opportunities for counseling, offer flexible working hours and teleworking.

For Millennials, the more likely to have a spouse or employees than older generations, the work-life balance was cited as a requirement in the top job.

Seventy-five percent of the students surveyed by Ernst & Young, said she want the opportunity to work flexibly and always on the right track for promotion.


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