...using the smart piece of furniture. The wooden furniture item will act as a perfect working space when the leaf is opened. As soon as the leaf is closed the same table will transform into a decorative stand or an area to stock things in no time. It will be a blessing for people who live in small houses as EVA will solve multiple purposes. The designer has tried to combine the charm of handcrafted things, modern looks and 3D forms in EVA, which makes it all the more eye catching. Simple facade and ease of use make EVA quite attractive. Just wedge it on any wall of your house or office and see it win hearts in a wink. April 10th, 2014. Furniture, A Warm Yet Peaceful Vilfred Desk To Support Your Privacy. Do you want to have some privacy when working or studying at home? For some people, they tend to have problems trying to concentrate about work when they are at home. There are those who work at home or who need to study but just cannot sit down and perform the tasks they need to do for the day. Because of this, they had to cram just to be able to finish their work. When one is cramming, they are unable...
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...Internet Scavenger Hunt & Multitasking Name: SOPHIE JULY Objective: To learn how to use different browsers while learning to surf as well as search on the Internet AND learning to multitask. Directions: Using the Internet, choose a browser and locate the following items: 1. Search for a website with a picture of a potato on the home page. a. URL: http://www.healthypotato.com 2. Search for a ‘pot of gold’ at the end of a rainbow. a. URL: http://www.marilynkinsella.org/Puppetry/pot_of_gold_at_the_end_of_the_ra.htm 3. Go to the animfactory.com website and find a picture of a computer. Print it out. [pic] 4. Search for a site about Herman Hollerith, what is he famous for? a. The World's First Statistical Engineer 5. Use the URL : http://dictionary.com and search for ‘netiquette’ a. Using your mouse, select the definition b. Copy the definition using the Ctrl + C keys [held down simultaneously] and then, c. Paste the selection using the Ctrl + V keys [held down simultaneously] below: the etiquette of computer networks, esp. the Internet. 6. Who was the 23rd President of the United States? a. Name: Benjamin Harrison b. URL: http://www.trivia-library.com/a/23rd-us-president-benjamin-harrison.htm 7. Find 3 cities in the United States, mentioned in the same website, which start with the letter N: a. Noble, KY b. Nina, KY c. Northcutt...
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...wear the clothes that were sold there or clothes similar to them. After working there for a month or so I stumbled upon a few of the girls taking clothes off the shelf and putting them in the back room. I was then told that sometimes the girls there would “borrow the clothes and wear them to work in that day and then put them back on the shelf for customers to buy. I did speak up and tell them I thought it was wrong. They then informed me that even the manager of the store did it. That she would even get merchandise and take it home and keep the tags there and pay for some of the stuff a little bit along. I was in shock. I proceeded by calling the home office and calling the district manager and reporting the issue. A few weeks later the district manager came in the store. I was then fired. All the girls told the district manager that I was causing arguments within the group and I was a trouble maker. I did find out later that the home office did their own investigation in the store and all of the girls even the manager ended up getting fired. Even though I was fired from the job, I felt good about doing the right thing. I could have easily conform to the group for the sake of my job but due to my ethical beliefs I could not do...
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...Associate Level Material Appendix C Understanding Work-Related Injuries Case Studies: 1. Janet works as a branch manager for a large banking firm. Her job requires her to travel by personal vehicle to different branch offices several times each week. Janet has lower back problems from a result of a skiing accident many years ago, which is further aggravated by long periods of sitting while driving. Janet was returning from the branch office to the home office on Thursday afternoon when another driver struck her car from behind. A physician examined Janet and determined that the accident aggravated her pre-existing back injury. The physician ordered Janet to remain off work for at least two weeks. a. Is this injury covered under workers’ compensation? Yes b. Rationale for your decision: Although Janet had a pre-existing back injury; it was re-aggravated by the long periods of sitting and getting into an accident while traveling for her job. c. If covered, identify the appropriate injury category: Injury with medical and disability benefits 2. Frank works as a clerk in a local convenience store with a non-smoking policy. On a personal work break, Frank stepped outside the building to smoke a cigarette. As Frank walked across the parking lot, he slipped on a patch of ice and fell, breaking his wrist and injuring his outstretched hand. a. Is this injury covered under workers’ compensation? Yes b. Rationale for your decision: His injury...
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...Risk 1 Time Time is a risk for this project on several levels. 173 employees this will be affected as well as their customers. The company has agreed that this is a good move, however, if the process of setting up the equipment, managing the security and providing training goes on too long, then it will start to negatively affect the company over-all. Currently there is concern if the technology will be delivered due to an unforeseen fire, this set back will be costly in time and work. Also, a second part of time being a risk is managing faulty or dying equipment. Home offices will take longer to assess and fix in the long run. IT staff will either have travel to employee’s homes, or employees will be held up having to come into the home office for repairs. The impact is serious due to the fact it would reduce the amount of work completed, uses valuable resources that are required on-site, or lead to cost of hiring a separate support staff for the telecommuters. Initial action is to move quickly in the areas that can be moved on quickly. Also, there are several team members who are done their parts, and several who are working on their parts alone. It is recommended that people be placed where there is a personnel shortage. This risk can also be prevented by managing the completion status of each item via milestone dates. The team member responsible is everyone on the project, with the PM as the lead. Strategies for preventing this risk is for the...
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...Group Presentation: 1. What are the most common sources of work/family conflict? How do they specifically impact the employee? How do they specifically impact the firm? Work from home option. As the title points out that employee can have a full-time salary but work at home. This new form of work organization is neither necessarily corrosive of character, nor does it provide individual with unlimited opportunity to shape the work process beyond organizational control. From the graphic we can easily know that work from home options are Increasingly popular; has Powerful hardware support; and Relates to all occupation Time is a central factor in shaping the experience of work. Work time and life time used to be clearly separated. While in modern days, technological innovations, together with changing managerial strategies, create new opportunities to relocate parts of the production process into culturally different spheres, including that of ‘home’. Impact on the employees Positive: The individual is said to benefit by increased autonomy, balancing work and life, and saving in cost and time in commuting. The biggest advantage of working from home is that you have the ability to create your working environment. Another benefit of working from home is that you save a lot of time commuting back and forth to work. You can spend extra time with your children or spouse, read the newspaper instead of sitting in traffic. Place, therefore, becomes...
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...Crabtree DATE: November 1, 2011 SUBJECT: Home Office Deduction FACTS: Joe is a top executive at Xron Corporation and typically has to work 25 hours per week outside of the office to complete his weekly work load. The office remains open after 5 pm in the evenings and on the weekends, but the heating and air shut off after 5 pm and on the weekends. Joe will often work from home on evenings and weekends despite the fact that Xron does not require him to do so. ISSUES: The main issue that arises is whether Joe can take a home office deduction due to the fact that he completes a portion of his weekly work responsibility from home. In order for Joe to qualify for the deduction, we must determine if his home is considered “a principal place of business” under Code Sec. 280A(c). If Joe meets these requirements, they he will be allowed the deduction. CONCLUSION: Joe is not allowed to take a home office deduction because he does not meet the requirements of Code Sec. 280A(c) which outlines the “principal place of business” qualifications. DISCUSSION: Code Sec. 280A(c) outlines many of the qualifications for the home office deduction. Code Sec. 280A(c)(1)(A) states that, “the taxpayer can claim a home office deduction if a part of the taxpayer's residence is used exclusively and on a regular basis as the principal place of any business of the taxpayer.” In Joe’s situation, this brings rise to the issue of whether or not his home is considered a principal place of business...
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...Abstract A day at the office no longer means long commutes, dressing in a suit and tie or a dress, and performing work according to a 9 to 5 schedule with the boss looking over your shoulder. With the Industrial Revolution came change in how and where people work. The changes were seen subtly at first; people slowly moved to the cities to find work in factories, but then the changes started becoming more noticeable. People flocked to the cities because that is where a person could find work. The days of the small farmer who grew food for his own family were gone. Big corporations moved in and people were hired in by the hundreds, usually to perform meaningless, dreary, work. Modern society is seeing a new kind of Industrial Revolution where people are no longer stuck in semi-enclosed cubicles or monotonous, robotic-like work. Society is experiencing a different work era where people do not have to drive miles from home on stress- filled highways, only to arrive at work to put in 8 or 9 hour days performing unfulfilling tasks. A job today can mean waking up to fresh coffee, logging onto the computer, stopping in the middle of something to help their child with lunch, and returning to work right in their own homes. A job today can mean flexibility, freedom, creativity, and increased production. Introduction Working from home is not a new concept. People used to conduct their work from home because their property and home was their work. Farmers farmed their land, and the women...
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...Women home-based business owners: insights from comparative analyses Karyn Loscocco and Andrea Smith-Hunter Introduction Women are becoming entrepreneurs at a more than proportionate rate compared to men (Renzulli et al., 2000). There has been a corresponding interest in studying who these women are, what motivates them to become owners, and what affects their economic success (Clark and James, 1992; Loscocco et al., 1991; Moore and Buttner, 1997; Smith-Hunter, 2000; (Renzulli et al., 2000; Weiling et al., 2001). The woman home-based business owner (HBB), however, remains understudied. There has been more research on women working from home during the past decade (Heck et al., 1992; Waldrop, 1994; Jurik, 1998; Prestniz, 1989), but the bulk of the work in this area has been on homebased employment (Powers, 1995; Dannhauser, 1999; Edwards and Field-Hendrey, 1996; Ahrentzen, 1990; Bailyn, 1989), rather than HBB ownership. Though the work in these areas is a much-needed complement to studies of men small business owners, to our knowledge no study has yet to compare the woman home-based owner to her obvious counterpart, the woman who locates her business outside of the home. We seek to answer a number of questions about women who own and operate businesses from their home by comparing them to women owners whose businesses are run elsewhere. We are motivated by recent statistics showing that the HBB sector in the US is substantial in size and sales. In 1997, HBB represented 52...
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...Survey report May 2012 Flexible working provision and uptake Contents Summary of key findings Flexible working provision – employers’ policies and practices Formal/informal flexible working arrangements Flexible working and the law Right to request flexible working Flexible working regulations and tribunal claims Access to and uptake of flexible working among employees Employee perceptions of the flexible working arrangements provided by employers Uptake of flexible working Flexible working uptake, by size of organisation worked for Flexible working uptake, by seniority of employees Employees that would like to work flexibly if given the opportunity Benefits of flexible working Benefits of flexible working: employees Satisfaction with work–life balance and employee engagement Satisfaction with work–life balance support Barriers to introducing flexible working Flexible working trends Background to the report Conclusions 2 4 7 9 10 14 15 15 16 18 18 18 21 22 24 25 27 30 33 34 Flexible working provision and uptake 1 Summary of key findings Background to the survey This report is based on survey responses from more than 1,000 employers and 2,000 employees. The employer survey is weighted to be representative of industry in the UK in relation to size, sector and type of business. The employee survey is weighted to be representative of the UK workforce in relation to sector and size (private, public, voluntary), industry type and full-time/part-time working by gender...
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...AND CODING Medical Billing and Coding as a Career Abstract: Since I became a mother, I have always wanted a job that would allow me to work at home. I have an associate in accounting and tried doing bookkeeping from home but that did not really work out. I did some research and found that being an insurance medical biller and coder is one of the best jobs to have for working at home. Top Medical Billers can earn over $40,000 a year either at home or in the office. “Employment of billing and posting clerks and machine operators is expected to grow by about 4 percent from 2006 to 2016. In 2006, billing and posting clerks and machine operators held about 542,000 jobs; 566,000 jobs are projected by 2016.” (medicalcareersguide, 2007) In choosing a new career path I did a lot of research on my options. The path to success always starts with the right attitude, education, training, networking, and experience. We want to inspire you by not only speaking about the medical billing and coding career but also by giving examples of real people who succeeded. Learn all there is to know about entering into this rewarding field, finding medical billing jobs, and succeeding in your chosen career. This website also answers many questions about starting your own medical billing business, either in a small office space, or from home. I decided upon medical billing and coding because it is a rapidly growing healthcare field and it sounds exciting. Learning about medical coding and...
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...from home at present. In addition, about eight million people spend some time working in the home rather than in an office. This is almost twice as many as ten years ago. This rapidly-growing trend towards working from home is the same in many countries. But what are the reasons for it? The main reason is technological: easy access to broadband and the availability of phone and vidco-conferencing. These enable people to use their home as an office in an efficient and cost-effective way. Other reasons for homeworking are the benefits to both employers and employees: office space is costly, so if an organisation can reduce its workstations, it may be able to move to a smaller site. Employees often work better at home: travelling to work can be very time-consuming and tiring. Many homeworkers save a lot of time if they don't commute and they can start the day fresher and therefore work more efficiently; parents with young children appreciate the flexibility that homeworking allows and are more relaxed. Siinjit Patcl s;iys, 'fK'avelSeen working itom home stnce my son was born and have been really i.-iijoyins it. liut. i can tell you that homeworking requires special skills like self-discipline and time management. I've known my boss and colleagues for a long time now, which really helps because you've got to trust each other. You also need to have regular contact, by phone, email or video conferences, and you need to make regular trips to your office....
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...Working from home: the disadvantage Tina DiNunzio HRP7110 – Human Resources Management Jodi Smith October 23, 2014 Working from home can sound like a dream come true. However, like any job situation there are many disadvantages to home employment that may become apparent over time. For some, this can mean making a few adjustments to make the situation more tolerable. For others, the disadvantages can be so powerful that they can put an end to the home office (Provenzano). As technology, apps and costs bring people to conclude that working from home would be the best situation, it’s very important to consider the disadvantages of working from home, as these are often forgotten. These negative aspects can actually add to work/life pressure and lead to a major increase of job dissatisfaction (Dill-Shackleford). The four major factors to weigh out when considering working from home are: isolation, lack of promotion opportunities, household distractions and self discipline. Anyone who has worked in an office, school or any other workplace becomes accustomed to chatting with coworkers, discussing work projects and other social aspects of the workplace. All of that social interaction is lacking when working alone from home (Park). Many people come to dislike the isolation factor and crave the social interactions they once had. For some, this can be replaced by chatting online with other at-home workers. For others, the isolation can result...
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...Marissa Mayer was right on asking Yahoo employees who currently telecommute to start to come in to the office regularly. I support her decision because people should understand that it is called a job for a reason and it has to be taken serious and without distractions. Before technology was this advanced, people did not have the option to work from home and now people are becoming lazier and lazier and want to do everything from their home. It is right to have employees at the office to be able to supervise them every now and then and make sure they are giving it their all. She’s doing it to benefit the company. I do think that the CEO’s gender had to do with how the message was received. When people see a woman they think feelings, drama, gossip. They feel all women care to talk about is about theirs and other people’s personal lives and feelings. Although some women do, there’s others that are professional about their jobs and do not let their feelings and personal lives become a topic in their conversations at work. People need to listen and analyze her reasons for doing what she did and when they understand them then they can finally share their opinions about it. They should not react the way they do only because she is a woman. Maybe she feels that if people come to the office regularly then they will work more effectively rather than working at home surrounded with a lot of...
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...People have more flexible time due to the wireless network. Thanks to the invention of wireless technology. People can now work from home while taking care of their children or work at home. No more stress of filling. Is not that great? Well, there is something you need to achieve. Working from home as a wireless LAN (WLAN) is used to help the theft of sensitive information and the intrusion of viruses or hackers if no appropriate action is taken. Because wireless information about radio waves, someone with a receiver in your area might be able to transfer and thus gain access to your computer. You could load viruses on your laptop that could be transferred to the corporate network when you return to work. By Strange! Up to 75 percent of users do not have WLAN installed over standard security functions, while 20 percent are fully open because the default settings are uninsured, but is for users to have their network and operate as...
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