Who Works at Home ?

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The American time use survey (ATUS) conducted a survey that reports which workers were the most likely to do some work at home. ATUS says that people age 15 years old and over and worked 7 days a week during  the years 2003-2007. The information refers to people with single jobs who were employed full time. This is usually 35 hours or more per week.

According to the survey self-employed workers were over three times more likely to do some work at home than wage and salary workers. About 34 % of the self-employed did at least some work at home on an average day, compared with 10 percent of wage and salary workers. Self-employed workers also spent a larger percent of their total weekly work hours at home than did wage and salary workers. 24 percent  compared with 4 percent.

There are two groups of people working at home:

There is a group called self-employed. They work at home because they had home-based businesses.
The other group is called the wage and salary workers who work at home to catch up on work.

On the days that they worked at home about 28% of the full time self-employed worked more than 7 hours at home. Compared to 8 percent of wage and salary workers. Conversely, on days that they worked at home, 52 percent of full time wage and salary wokrkers spend 1 hour or less working at home, compared with 30 percent of self-employed workers.

what are the benefits of working at home ?

Working at home can provide people with many benefits, for example:

 -flexibility in their schedules
-fewer commutes
-opportunities to catch up on work

Start a Small Business

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Do you want to own a small business?

There are many reasons to start your own business.

You will be your own bus.
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In business there are no guarantees. Success in business is never automatic. Success is not a game with little of bit of luck on your side.
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