Working at home

Like many Canadians, Carla Holub gave willingly to the shuttle for ease and convenience of working from home.

Sales Agent 41 years old, WestJet he says has no regrets as she before the switch three years. Telecommuting gives you time to dance to take their children lessons and hockey, while their insurance costs car Breakfast to reduce, coffee, gas, he said.

"It was a big change," he said from Calgary. "There were just two hours my personal time to be able to work from my home office."

WestJet Airlines is planning a bilingual call center in Moncton, NB to establish, but most of the 400 agents work from home. You will take part about 85% of the 900 call center workers in the airline in Calgary who have moved since 2013 in order to respond calls from remote clients.

The measure WestJet saved costs his office enlargement, more staff to meet, was to be compensated by costs for the purchase of additional equipment for the employees partially, so that they can work from home.

The spokesman Robert Palmer said the move was designed primarily workers who want to make a better balance between working life.

"From the perspective of the employer generally a happy employee makes and a happy employee is more productive as a rule," he said.

The passage to the Tele growth since the 1990s, technology has accelerated, said Sheryl Boswell, marketing director of the website Monster Employment Canada.

He said, allowing most of the companies who have employees who work from home, to build their business without additional office expenses. They also seek access to more talent, he said.

"I think, do most employers, because it is what the plaintiffs are seeking today," Boswell, who said telecom mutes two days a week.

More than 1.7 million employees - not independent - according to the latest Statistics Canada report have in the country in 2008, at least once a week, almost 23% from 1.4 million in 2000, worked on the edition in of 2010.

work Despite the increase of only one percentage point the share of employees in the country increased to 11.2% during the period. A faster pace of growth among independent workers has the proportion of people pushed to work from home to two percentage points to 19% in the year of 2008.

Louise Howard is typical of many independent home workers. The mother of the children six to eight years to spend a few hours sewing clothing and accessories for children from the first day in the restaurant to eat selling convenience stores and online.

"It's a hobby that a deal was by chance," said Montreal, who says he is the minimum a day for an average of three hours.

Monster Canada said about 5,000 jobs at home currently included on the site, representing an increase of 18% over the previous year. Available positions vary from customer service and sales staff support, finance and real estate services. The growth of social networks has led businesses to hire authors to create content.

Teleworking can also appeal to older workers, enabling companies to adapt to demographic changes.

"It is a weapon in the arsenal of a company wide employee to win," said Robert Campbell, president of the trade association ContactNB.

to allow New Brunswick, some form of teleworking Approximately 30% of more than 100 call center, Campbell said, adding that workers have a variety of jobs including hotline medical advice, grief, funeral planning and consultation, I said financier.