Need Flexibility? Work From Home
By Tory Johnson (ABC NEWS)
There's a growing option for moms or others who are looking for jobs with a lot of flexibility -- employment at a virtual call center. As customer service representatives, agents at a virtual center take incoming calls and handle requests through a computer networked within the company -- and they can do it all from home. To read the complete article Click Here.

Going The Work At Home Way
By Jean Chatzky (NBC NEWS)How long is your commute? Fifteen minutes? Half an hour? According to a 2005 study by the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans waste more than 100 hours commuting to work each year -- hours that you could spend volunteering, hanging with your kids or -- what the heck -- catching up on sleep. That's just one of the reasons (along with e-mailing in your pajamas and enjoying leftovers for lunch) working from home has become a national pastime. Roughly 38 million households in the United States have a home office. Unfortunately, there's a little more to it than plugging in the laptop and taping a professional-sounding message for the answering machine. If you want to work effectively from home, you need to put some serious thought into how to best set up that home office. If you want to be able to write it off come tax time, there are a few other things to consider. To read the complete Article Click Here.

Job Opening? Work-At-Home Moms Fill Bill
By Stephanie Armour (USA TODAY)
To read the complete Article Click Here. Like many stay-at-home moms, Christie Thomas spends much of the day doting on her daughter, reading her stories, making her lunch and putting her down for afternoon naps. But Thomas is among a new generation of moms who have chosen to stay at home but earn an income, too. She's a loan officer and independent contractor for Pacific West Financial, doing loan work and research while Carlyjo, age 2, sleeps or watches TV. She also gets some work done after her husband, a teacher, gets home from work. "It's very lucrative," says Thomas, 33, of Morgan Hill, Calif., who also manages other loan officers. "You do have to manage your time very well. I can work in my pajamas." Many moms are redefining the stay-at-home experience by using today's technology — and employers' growing reliance on free agents — to earn an income without ever setting foot in an office. These home-based working moms — known as mompreneurs or WAHMs, which stands for work-at-home-moms — also represent an increasingly attractive labor pool for employers, allowing companies to outsource domestically instead of hiring workers overseas.