Many businesses are allowing some employees to telecommute, or work from home. The congress even passed legislation forcing some government agencies to let workers telecommute. Funding for these agencies will decrease if they don’t comply.

You might be thinking, “I wish I could do that”. Well, it just might be possible. The biggest fear businesses have is whether productivity will drop.

If you want to do your work at home, you need your boss to feel you will get the work done. Show him that you can, and he just might let you try it. Think of all the time you will save not having to drive to work.

If you have some good office skills, you could consider starting your own business from home. You will offer you services to companies that need the work you can do. You can work for a few companies at the same time if you can handle the workload.

If you are good on the phones, you can find work as a customer service representative. You take phone calls for the company that hires you. If you’ve worked the phone at your office, this should be a field you can easily do.

Small businesses need accounting work done. They don’t have enough work to hire full time accountants, so they will hire outside the company. As a skilled accountant you can help a few companies at once, and develop a nice business this way.

Secretarial work can be done from home also. Many small businesses are run from home now. They don’t have any space for a secretary, but still could use one.

You could do writing projects for companies. A lot of different writing is needed for many businesses. If you have good writing skills you can do this from home too.

Helping companies do their billing is another home based career. There might be some software and training to get started. Once you know the work, you can take over this problem for companies.

Small companies often can’t afford to hire full time people. Additionally, they don’t have office space for them. By outsourcing work, they don’t need to hire more employees than they can afford.

With high speed internet, communication and transferring data is lightning fast. This has made telecommuting possible. This often benefits both the owners and the workers.