{"id":1035,"date":"2007-06-27T08:37:36","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T13:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/more-americans-are-working-from-home\/"},"modified":"2007-06-27T08:37:37","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T13:37:37","slug":"more-americans-are-working-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/more-americans-are-working-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"More Americans Are Working From Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foxnews.com offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,286829,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">a story regarding the booming trend of working from home<\/a>.&nbsp; I hope no one is surprised by this trend since it has been prevalent for many years now.&nbsp; Obviously, $3 a gallon gas is driving even more people towards this model.&nbsp; Yet, I think the gas prices are exacerbating the increasing commute times around the country.&nbsp; To my point, think of how much time is wasted each work day when commuting:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2005 an estimated 3 million Americans commuted more than 90 minutes to work each way \u20ac\u201d almost twice as many as in 1990. Fifteen out of every 100 Americans traveled 45 minutes each way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Part of this trend is due to the migration to the outer rings of city suburbs.&nbsp; I think if you couple high gas prices and extended commute times you end up with a trend towards work-from-home options.<\/p>\n<p>We are currently sourcing a outside sales position in Los Angeles and are seeing this pattern in spades.&nbsp; We have talked to some candidates who are 20 miles from our client&#8217;s office, but they will not even discuss the position if it does not offer some work-from-home flexibility.&nbsp; We were informed that the 20 mile commute would take over 1 hour to complete.<\/p>\n<p>We quickly adjusted to include a work-from-home option in the position which has greatly changed our success in sourcing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foxnews.com offers a story regarding the booming trend of working from home.&nbsp; I hope no one is surprised by this trend since it has been prevalent for many years now.&nbsp; Obviously, $3 a gallon gas is driving even more people towards this model.&nbsp; Yet, I think the gas prices are exacerbating the increasing commute times around the country.&nbsp; To my point, think of how much time is wasted each work day when commuting: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2005 an estimated 3 million Americans commuted more than 90 minutes to work each way \u20ac\u201d almost twice as many as in 1990. Fifteen out of every 100 Americans traveled&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/more-americans-are-working-from-home\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-gH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->