For most people, the promise of working from home is offered through freelancing, internet business and companies offering data entry type jobs. These are all tried and true ways of working from home, however these choices have several limitations for the majority of the working population of the world.
Firstly, most people do not know how to start freelancing or start an internet business. In their busy lives, many people never manage to find the time to learn either. For these people, learning to freelance or start an internet business is a daunting and time consuming task. Alot of these people also feel that these two options are risky as they offer no promise of a consistent and stable income.
Secondly, work from home companies that offer tedious repetetive work offer no hope of career advancement or lasting interest for people who actually enjoy challenging work. These companies also tend not to pay well, and you would have to work many many hours in order to achieve a sizable income.
Telecommuting is usually the last option to be considered, and the reason for this can be summarized in one single reason. Most employees feel that asking to telecommute is a huge request and one that burdens the company. They carry the belief that to ask for the opportunity to work from home, they are in fact asking the company for a favour.
This is how many of us used to think, but not anymore. For us, telecommuting is a win win situation that benefits both the company and the employee.
The entire process outlined in the system is designed to improve your performance as an employee and to improve company productivity. Ultimately, even if a telecommuting agreement alludes you after everything you have learned from this site, you will not be worst off from before you started applying the system.
The system is designed to protect the you the employee at all levels and also to produce clear benefits even if any of the stages fail. To explain it in short, the best case scenario is a full-time telecommuting agreement whereby you get to work from home. The worst case is, you become an employee who is valued, has negotiating leverage and is able to organize your work and life in such a way that you never come away from a day feeling overwhelmed.
We do not believe in win-lose situations or the need to burn bridges in order to achieve a result. There is always a middle ground if you look hard enough and for those of you who see no other alternative than telecommuting to achieve your goal of working from home, this is the middle ground.
Not only will you lose nothing if you fail, you will be in a better position as an employee than before you started.
If you wake up everyday, go to work and come back feeling like you’ve been beaten up and spat out, this is your opportunity to fight back and claim the life that you choose. Don’t sell your soul to a company that could dump you the moment they feel financial pressure. Learn to protect yourself, your job and your income.
Do it without risk and start doing it now.
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Yasuo Long believes that all employees should have the right to design their lifestyle according to their needs in order to maintain their health, their relationships and their happiness. In pursuit of this, he quit the 9-to-5 and became a telecommuter to give himself the time and mental freedom to discover what it really means to live with direction and purpose.
