Home Office

It seems as though my peer's argument is the flexibility of working from home benefits people better. Yes, I feel as though my peer has addressed Opposing Viewpoints. The section of the summary that I need clarity for is her problem. Are you trying to find a way to get work-forces into to telecommuting only? *My problem is finding an effective way to better manage a company’s workforce to increase profitability by implementing alternative flexible work options for their employees. (Johnson, 2017)

Work and its role in society has become the subject of considerable public commentary and debate in recent years. Work, for many Americans, has changed significantly over the past 25 years. Some people believe that the world of work is changing so thoroughly and quickly that we should consider ourselves pioneers of a new historical era. Some say that the idea of a job has become antiquated.

Olsen, M.H. (1989, October). Work at Home for Computer Professionals: Current Attitudes and Future Prospects. ACM Transaction on Information Systems (TOIS) (Volume 7 Issue 4). Retrieved from http://tois.acm.org

can create flexibility, better customer service, and increased productivity. This will also create a home-based virtual office environment. This will help with employee retention, especially those that are experienced and skilled.

This onslaught of capitalism directly revolutionized modern industrialism as well as the industrial city. Machines morphed the predominately agricultural nation to a herd of factory and corporate workers. Swarms of people, both native and immigrant, flocked to major cities. “The present century has been marked by a prodigious increase in wealth-producing power. The utilization of steam and electricity, the introduction of improved processes and labor saving machinery, the greater subdivision and grander scale of production, the wonderful facilitation of exchanges, have multiplied enormously the effectiveness of labor.”(George, p.20) The major problem with this newfound industrialism was the way in which the workforce was treated. Capitalism was supposed to provide a way out, a way ascend the financial and social staircase, if you worked hard enough. This however was not the case, if you were a loyal, hardworking employee you simply got to keep your job, and if you were in any way injured or incompetent you were fired.

Many people work in telecommuting jobs where all they really need is a place to sit and a computer with internet connection. Other businesses allow workers to work from home or set them a set of working hours on site.

As telecommuting has become an increasingly popular form of work engagement, the utilization of the business use of the home deduction has also increased. The implementation of §280A(c)(1)(a) created confusion as to the definition of principal place of business and has culminated in controversy and litigation resulting in the additional requirement under the Tax Reform Act of 1997 which provided that, for purposes of the deduction, “there is no other fixed location of the trade or business where the taxpayer conducts these activities”. This requirement essentially eliminated the ability for employees that telecommute to deduct business expenses related to the use of the home (Banatte & Damtew, 2008).

“This remote work may be something we should be doing more of, according to two new studies. Working from home can be good for your health and productivity. Not only did people who worked from home report greater work satisfaction and less “work exhaustion,” they also got better sleep. Separately, researchers found that the highest performing workers were the most likely to cultivate and excel in a “WFH” environment (Gregoire, 2015)”. If workers don't prefer to work at home they are more than welcome to continue working at the main workplace. The company will give each employee the opportunity to try working from home in order to have more space at the main work

In the 1990s Telecommuting became popular. (“Wikipedia”, n.d., para.1) It allowed a way for employers to have workers that still accomplished the day to day task necessary to run a business and also allowed employee’s to work without traveling into a dedicate office building or store. In today’s society, I have noticed that there are more job posting for software developers in the United States that offer working remotely versus working at an office building. The purpose of the dissertation is to find out the habits and work ethics of successful remote workers so that a hiring manager could target those traits while interviewing potential candidates for telecommuting work.

In the era when capitalism was booming workers faced very harsh working conditions and little job security. The workers were the very last ones to benefit from their own work, “the products of capitalism invariably benefit[ed] the ‘wealthy’ first”(DiLorenzo, pg.96). Workers worked long hours sometimes even a 24 hour shift and maybe got a day off every two weeks, with a typical work week of 50-54 hours, where today it is only 40 hours. Due to this era being big on industrialism that meant machines were constantly replacing workers, that is “new machine techniques replacing old human skills

The initial question one must ask himself or herself when looking into this very broad issue of law is what constitutes a “home-based worker”. A home-based worker must be defined if it is to be governed under specific unionization rules and regulations. The International Labour Organization, a United Nations agency designed for creating and overseeing labor standards internationally, defines a home-based worker as “any person working from his or her home or from other premises of their choosing other than the workplace, for payment, which results of a product or service specified by the employer.” Basically, any job that does not have a specifically defined office where a specific type of work is conducted is considered home-based. Examples of home-based workers include: personal home assistants, website designers, and even in-house legal counsels. Home-based workers differ from entrepreneurs in that they do not operate

We’ve come a long way in terms of global trends shaping the nature of work today. There was a period around the 1700’s called the agricultural revolution where the introduction of new farming technologies increased food output in farm production. A lot of innovations came from this such as the seed drill, selective breeding, and crop rotation. There was major increase during this period leading to increased population and further adding to the labor pool. At the beginning of the 19th century corporations began to emerge to limit liability of investors.

One would think industrialization would bring better paying jobs and more employment opportunities, but the stories of the people who lived through the Industrial Revolution say otherwise. Workers faced long days, if not even longer days than those who worked in preindustrial times. Even though work hours were somewhat the same as preindustrial labor, the way those hours were carried out differed greatly. Laborers no longer had the comfort of working alongside and socializing with their families nor the power to control their pace of work. Workers would now be punished and penalized for doing such things. Companies would enforce punctuality and pace usually by correlating it with a worker’s pay. The less punctual and lazier you were, the more fines and the more pay decreases you would suffer. The nature of this new labor emphasized more on the importance of the company rather than the individual. Companies often had little concern when their workers suffered. If someone was incapable of performing their duties, there was always somebody else to take their place. It was unfortunate because many of these workers who were unable to perform well at their job often suffered from

In this day and age, many companies are allowing people to work from home to expand their business. The people that mange these workers face many challenges. This paper addresses some of the issues and discusses ways to keep remote workers engaged.

As technology, apps and costs bring people to conclude that working from home would be the