Working from home? "Homeshoring"

[bigno48]

I read in the Groat and http://www.caithness-business.co.uk/article.php?id=881 (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.caithness-business.co.uk/article.php?id=881) that BT, HIE and our politicians have discovered a new word, "Homeshoring".

I've been working from home, using the Internet to commute for a couple of years. Both my employer and my customers are outside Caithness. Would be interesting to get in contact with others in Caithness in the same situation. In many ways it's great being home based, but it would be good to know somebody locally doing the same thing.

[kitty]

I saw this in the paper today aswell. I would love to work from home as i live out of the town and find it very hard to get a childminder for my son. I know that BT is only letting existing staff do this at the moment but does anyone know of anyone else that employ people from home?

[skinnydog]

Working from home means just that so I think that most employers would take a dim view of someone looking after their child when they were meant to be working!! It may sound like a great idea but the practicalities of juggling kids and work would unlikely work. But I suppose it does all depend on exactly what type of work it was.

[kitty]

Working from home means just that so I think that most employers would take a dim view of someone looking after their child when they were meant to be working!! It may sound like a great idea but the practicalities of juggling kids and work would unlikely work. But I suppose it does all depend on exactly what type of work it was.


My son is at school during the day skinnydog. Its just where i live there isn't any registered childminders close enough to the school. I would have to arrange to get him into town after school and if you don't have a registered childminder you don't get help to pay for it from the tax credits.

[Penelope Pitstop]

Doubt if it would work for the BT call centre people if they had kids at home while working....not very professional having a kid bawling on the end of the phone at the same time as the BT operator.....sorry madam we seem to have interference on our line... lol[lol]

[bigno48]

I saw this in the paper today aswell. I would love to work from home as i live out of the town and find it very hard to get a childminder for my son. I know that BT is only letting existing staff do this at the moment but does anyone know of anyone else that employ people from home?

This is my second home-based job. In both cases I found a job somewhere else and managed to persuade them after they wanted to hire me that I should work from home.

If the employer needs to see you to manage you this will not work. If what you deliver is more important it will work. I have a sales job, I either make my numbers or I don't so it is easy to measure.

You have to have a few tons of self-discipline. What do you do when the children are home from school, tearing down the house, somebody is at the door and you are on the phone ? I heard of one guy who would wear a tie while working from home so that his family would know he was working.

[kitty]

It would just depend on what the job was. I know that the likes of BT wouldn't work when the schools are on holiday but was just wandering what kind of home based jobs there were and would only do it if the right one came along that suited what i could do. Just the same as if i was going to be working somewhere else other than home.

[Riffman]

I think it could certainly improve the quality of your call. Currently you have to yell just to be heard above the 100s of others yapping in the background. And even then you can't hear the BT chappy cos of all the noise.

It certainly appeals to me, working 11-9 would suit me fine.