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From an employee's perspective, it's easy to see the appeal of working at home. It's going to be interesting however over the next several years to find out how employers are benefiting from these arrangements long-term. I personally believe these win-win situations are going to increase as major corporations try to stay competitive with each other.

For employees, it is flexibility that is the key benefit. With a work-at-home job, there is the ability to get a steady income without the risks involved in a normal home-based business. Even if you're getting paid the same to do the same work, your "overhead" has gone down-less gas money, no more daycare bills, less need to go out to eat at lunch, your clothing budget, etc. These costs add up to feel like you've gotten a raise of several thousand dollars. Most importantly, the time you get back with your family can be infinitely more valuable.

For employers, the main benefit is less overhead as well. It's expensive to maintain a large office building full of cubicles. From my experience in the corporate world, most people do not like being crammed into 8 by 8 cells called cubicles but do it anyway because they need money. If given the legitimate chance to do their work at home, most people would accept the offer in my opinion. With the operations budget an medium-sized company would save, there would be no problem coming up with incentives to motivate people. The bottom-line is more productivity for less money is always a great thing.

If they're done right, these employment arrangements are going to be a great opportunity for everyone involved. At this point I'm very optimistic of what this will do for our economy if they really begin to catch on.

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