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- Work an Hour Pay Tax on 2. Is That Fair?
- HOT JOBS: Nursing home administrator loves working with elderly
- Downsize for the right fit
- New broom: here’s to sweeping housework aside
Can’t stay in the house? Try renting a communal office
Providence Journal – Jan 20, 2008
“You don’t go out for lunch. It’s easier to get depressed because there’s no one to complain to. ”McHugh said business lunches can be a lifeline after a couple of weeks working from home and that she often finds herself glomming onto her daughter when she gets home from high school in the afternoon. “I’m happy to see somebody who’s out in the world” she said. These issues have been observed at IBM where a “mobile work force” strategy has led to 30 percent of employees working full time from home (as well as a savings on office space that the company estimates at $100 million a year). “We found if you’re working from home and do not have an interaction with someone from work or a client or a physical meeting after three days you start to feel isolated” said Dan Pelino who manages IBM’s mobile work force program. Soon after the company introduced the program in 2001 he added “people have said to me ‘IBM stands for ‘I’m By Myself.
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San Diego Union Tribune – Jan 20, 2008
With power restored to his offices Ellsworth turned to restoring his company's computer network. The computer servers he had removed held the company's electronic business records and operated the computer network that Ellsworth employees needed to order parts and supplies track inventory and pay bills. Getting the servers working would enable them to work from home until the company could resume business. Ellsworth re-installed the servers and managed to get the company's network operating again by late Wednesday Oct. But power glitches and other problems caused the system to crash repeatedly in the ensuing weeks. Ellsworth also found a way to work around the loss of telephone service which lasted through December by using Skype a software program that allows users to make telephone calls over the Internet.
Work an Hour Pay Tax on 2. Is That Fair?
New York Times – Jan 20, 2008
New York’s “convenience of the employer” rule taxes nonresidents as if they came to the office every day even if they worked at home part of the week unless they can prove their employer required them to telecommute. Yet they must also pay income tax in their home states for work they did there. New York is the only state that aggressively enforces its tax code this way; most states use a “physical presence” test that lets workers pay taxes in proportion to the amount of time spent working in each state. The rule has critics because it penalizes some workers from out of state and also dilutes efforts to promote telecommuting that might ease congestion on the highways and trains in the New York City area. “There’s tremendous inconsistency that’s hard to understand” said Edward A. Zelinsky who lives in New Haven and teaches at the Benjamin N… But given New York’s preference for finding more efficient ways to get more commuters into the city rather than encouraging them to work at home it seems unlikely the situation will change any time soon legal experts say. “New York is able to get away with it because it costs money to take on the state” said William V. Vetter a professor of tax and business law at Prairie View A&M University in Texas who has called New York’s tax rule unconstitutional. “Everyone’s out to get money from people who don’t vote for them.
HOT JOBS: Nursing home administrator loves working with elderly
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscripti… – Jan 20, 2008
In those days Sudduth had planned to become a registered nurse but she discovered that she was allergic to ether. “I’d pass out whenever it was in the room but my allergy led me to choose the business path and still remain in health care” she said. Sudduth earned a degree in business administration and entered the business side of health care. Today she is the nursing home administrator for Powder Springs Nursing and Rehab Center. The 208-bed facility serves long-term nursing home residents short-term residents undergoing rehabilitation after hospital stays and it has a separate Alzheimer’s unit. The majority of Sudduth’s career has been spent in nursing homes. “I took an eight-year break and became a physicians’ office practice manager to see if I could break away from elder care and nursing homes but I came back” she said.
Downsize for the right fit
Atlanta Journal Constitution – Jan 20, 2008
“Within a day or two of selling our house we made an offer on a home under construction and spent about four months in a townhouse while we waited for this one to be built. The new house has five bedrooms four baths and a three-car garage but the footprint is smaller and there’s no finished basement. How they downsized their finances: “We decided if we were going to try to make a go of my new business we needed to sell our old home take the equity put a larger down payment on a smaller house and have a much more comfortable monthly mortgage commitment. Our Realtor recommended selling our old house for $589000. Because we bought when the neighborhood was just getting started our home had appreciated well. We ended up with more than $100000 in equity. The monthly impact: “Since we bought into a neighborhood of homes in the mid-$300000s we decreased our mortgage payment by just under $1000 a month and with a smaller house we have lower utility bills as well.
New broom: here’s to sweeping housework aside
The Age – Jan 20, 2008
Like most confessions mine also contains an element of pride. “Relax Career Woman” says Slovenly Me lying in her dressing gownon the couch cutting her toenails while watching the tennis. “Justbecause you work at home doesn’t mean you should clean all day. Prioritising is professional not lazy. You have deadlines afterall. Slovenly Me has a list of pithy sayings to help block it out… She’s very annoying. So there’s only one solution. Like dentistry electrical wiringand bikini waxing some things are best left to the professionals— and the cleaning business is growing faster than KevinRudd’s sideburns. Forget the resources and property boom sell yourCentro shares and cut Mandarin classes. Instead buy into ahouse-cleaning company. The benefits of a professional cleaner are many. Firstly shouldyou live with another person you can avoid the following: “It’syour turn to clean the toilet.
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