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Archive for September, 2008
Flexibility Attracts Highly Talented Workforce, Enables Agents to Skirt Effects of Rising Fuel Prices Associated with Work Commute
Hilton Hotels Corporation has developed a flexible work-at-home program, called Hilton@Home, underway within Hilton Reservations & Customer Care (HRCC). The highly flexible program enables HRCC to attract talented individuals for reservations and customer support positions who prefer to work from the comfort of their own homes while providing the first critical interaction for prospective guests calling upon reservations and customer services.
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Telecommuting Job Listings
Posted by: | CommentsInterview with Sharon Hinck, author of Stepping Into Sunlight
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Interview with Sharon Hinck - Stepping Into Sunlight [ 41:43 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1216)Listen in as Sharon Hinck shares with us about her newest novel, Stepping Into Sunlight. It’s an incredibly moving story and Sharon also has a blog encouraging women to do a small kind act for a different person each day. During the 30 days of September, they are going to do set a goal to do these small kind acts. Sound fun? Sound scary? Sound impossible? I’m taking the challenge! Join me here!
About Stepping Into Sunlight:
Penny, a Navy chaplain’s wife, witnesses a violent crime and struggles with post traumatic stress while her husband is on his first deployment. Far from family and friends, she fights to heal for the sake of her seven-year-old son, even though ordinary tasks take heroic efforts. She’s haunted by flashbacks and is tormented by fear, so she designs a project to speed her recovery: doing one small, kind act for a different person each day. The results are sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, and often used by God in surprising ways.
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Telecommuting Job Listings
Posted by: | CommentsHome Sweet Office: Telecommute Good for Business, Employees, and Planet
Posted by: | CommentsFound this great article about telecommuting on Wired.com (by Brendan I. Koerner) :
Ever since OPEC vexed Jimmy Carter into wearing a cardigan, telecommuting has been touted as a fix for what ails the US office worker — the agony and expense of commuting, the drudgery of cubicles, the shortage of family time. Long before the advent of the Web, evangelists were confident that cordless phones and faxes had already made the office a relic. “Working from home holds the promise of a new American dream,” Paul and Sarah Edwards gushed in their 1985 manifesto, Working From Home, in which they extolled the virtues of commuting from breakfast nook to den.
Two decades later, however, most workers still trudge to the office. Though a third of the more than 150 million working Americans telecommute at least occasionally, most do so just a few days each month. Only 40 percent of companies permit any sort of work-at-home arrangement, which means most insist on full-time attendance. According to a 2006 survey by the Telework Exchange, the top fear among resisters is that they’ll lose control of their employees, whom they doubtlessly envision frittering away the hours between 9 and 5 playing Minesweeper and munching Cheetos. … Read the entire article …
Are Day Care Regulations And Daycare Requirements The Same Thing?
Posted by: | CommentsLet’s not confuse daycare requirements and day care regulations. One is the building block upon which the other is built. Day care regulations are in place in order to ensure that minimum standards of care are adhered to. Thereafter you are required to ensure they are applied in a relevant fashion within your day care.
Day care regulations are a given – they are the law, they are practical, they are common sense and they ensure the health, safety and well-being of the children in your care. What you do to build upon these ordinances marks you out as an exceptional, above average facility. You are required to go so much further than that which is writ…. and if you haven’t realized that yourself then you are in the wrong business.
When running a day care adding your personal touch and attention is as important as the serious, bottom line aspect of the business. While you must always keep the practical, bottom line, business aspect in mind you must also be aware of the small additions and tweaks that can make your daycare that bit better and more personable than the others.
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Top Ten Ways for a Parent to Fight High Gas Prices
Posted by: | Comments(Gentle Christian Humor…)
1) Only drive your kids to destinations that are downhill from you.
2) Tell your boss you can’t come into work in honor of Stephanie Tanner’s birthday (and hope he doesn’t watch Full House).
3) See if your automobile will run on syrup.
4) As a science project, have your kids siphon your neighbor’s gasoline.
5) Throw a family block party at your house; but instead of a side dish have guests bring a barrel of crude oil. (Call it an OPEQ themed party.)
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Telecommuting Job Listings
Posted by: | CommentsWHY, the premier online magazine dedicated to folks who work from home, including more than 20 million U.S. citizens, is introducing a unique product line developed specifically for home workers and is sponsoring a catchphrase contest.
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ABC Declares New Official Holiday: ‘National Stay at Home Week’
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Yay! It’s National Stay at Home Week! Now, I’m not promoting the idea that we all sit around and watch TV like ABC might want us to, but I do love the idea of staying home – saving gas money, fast food money and, if you’re like me, impulse-buy-at-the-checkout money.
So, let’s think of some thing we can stay home and do with our family! 
1. Read together – So many good books … so little time. And they say the more we read to and with our kids, the better they do in school.
2. Play outside – we got a croquet set a few weeks back. Not only will it get me up off the couch, it’s pretty entertaining to watch my 6 and 3 year olds learn croquet!
3. Play a game – and no, I do not mean a video game on the Wii. I mean a board game (remember those). Invite friends over and make a night of it or just sit down with the kids and play Candyland.
4. Your Turn! Comment Below!
