But perhaps most relevant, whatever its merits, telecommuting and home-based work seems to be the inevitable wave of the future, whether corporate managers like it or not.
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Although stay-at-home fathers grab the headlines, this movement includes full time, part-time and work-from-home fathers, it includes gay and straight dads, and single, married and divorced dads.
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The next time you're on your journey home - be it from work or from holidays - and you're bemoaning the long motorway drive, just think how much worse it would be without the 50-year-old stretch of highway.
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Are modern couples moving towards a more equal share of outside-the-home work and domestic duties?
Before long, I was caught up with the everyday stress of living in London - home to work, work to home.
To hear the employer representatives tell it, companies are providing their workers with services that make it easier to balance home and family life in an age when there are few stay-at-home spouses and work is stressful.
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And the government should do more to publicize and alert us about Internet scams, fraud, and fake work-at-home schemes by creating a Virtual Work Hotline.
Right now, too many of our citizens don't have an insurance policy at all, and those who do are afraid they will lose the one they have - afraid they will get too sick, afraid to stay home and not work full-time, and afraid their benefits will disappear along with their job.
The walls of the 18, 674-square-foot home are up, but additional work is needed to finish off the four-bedroom, five-bath home.
Otherwise, she would have announced that Yahoo is going to re-evaluate the work-at-home folks on an individual basis.
Instead, they are looking for what Leinberger calls "walkable urbanism" -- both small communities and big cities characterized by efficient mass transit systems and high density developments enabling residents to walk virtually everywhere for everything -- from home to work to restaurants to movie theaters.
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Many stay-at-home moms have a strong work history, yet the proposed regulations ignore their demonstrated credit-worthiness because of their lack of current market income.
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Some users may not realize what they say on a social media site -- whether it be at home or work, on a company computer or a personal computer -- can be grounds for firing.
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So here is the take-home -- or better, take-to-work -- advice for leaders.
John began staying home from work and started sleeping in two-hour shifts so he could work through the night.
Respondents reported that they were much more likely to be interrupted by work-related matters at home than to be interrupted by family matters at work.
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The lawyers are typically stay-at-home moms craving volunteer work that puts their legal training to good use.
Essentially, persistent gender roles leave many women at home or at work part-time.
Connor recommends that men and women set boundaries between work and home -- for example, checking email no more than once an hour.
"Between kids and career, I'm never completely at home or completely at work - and thanks to technology, that suits me just fine, " said Jen Singer, an author, blogger and mom of two teen boys.
And the timing could not be more critical, what with the unemployment rate for young military veterans having recently risen as high as 27 percent (nearly three times the national average) and CBS News 60 Minutes reporting that the difficult adjustment to work and home-life, plus present economic realities, are contributing to a growing homelessness rate among veterans.
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Reid, on his full debut, cracked a superb 25-yard volley home after good work from Danny Cadamarteri.
After Lim was locked up, whenever his wife tried to leave home for work, their three-year-old son Marcus would get hysterical.
What I recall most vividly, though, at the end of that day (or perhaps it was the next): being home after work with my ten-month old daughter.
Instead, we should explore less unpleasant ways to cut energy use though such things as incentives for decentralizing work, promoting home-based labor, more tree planning and effective insulation.
They typically make up the majority of the take-home pay of people who work in the financial markets, and they can reach into the seven and eight figures for top players.
After devoting much work to the home--including the addition of a pool and dock--the couple, who have since moved to Los Angeles, no longer have time to enjoy the Cape Cod getaway.
Failure to properly log off, unwittingly emailing a confidential document, using a thumb drive to bring work home, peer-to-peer file sharing, and other routine tasks that inadvertently create risks of exposing sensitive data to theft or misappropriation are not usually the results of malice.
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If the definition of a stay-at-home dad is expanded to those who have freelance or part-time work while still acting as the primary caretaker, the share is still under 3 percent.
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