The nine to five role. Gratifying? Possibly. It used to be that working nine to five was the most “rewarding” option for anybody wanting to produce a “good” standard of living for themselves and their children, but in the technological era many people are starting to Work From Home. Why is this so? I think that it is due to the advancement in technology which has permitted the general public access to tools previously used in big companies by people with expert knowledge in those areas.

The creation of technologies such as the home computer and then the internet have increased the amount of people trying to make a living from companies that allow them to Work From Home. The ease of use of both the home computer and the internet, aswell as the numerous “new” resources available for people to use are a contributing feature in the rise of people working from home. This has affected the work market where, as anticipated, computers are progressively taking over the jobs that were once done manually.

How are people working from home? In lots of situations people are working from home using the Internet Business. The use of internet companies has of late increased due to the success of sites like Friends Reunited (which in 2005 sold for ?30,000,000) and Amazon (which was estimated to make in excess of $4.75 billion in 2008) along with to the increasing ease with which one can build a website. There are many websites devoted to providing people with information on how to set up and run an Internet Business, from the very early stages (conception of an idea) to the very last stages (steady income and regular customers). This increasing ease with which internet and home businesses can be run has contributed to many things. Mainly it has increased a desire for freedom from the “nine to five” and the rise in resources available to people on a day to day basis. This is along with the increasing use of home computers and the internet with the general public.

I mentioned before that computers are slowly taking over jobs that in the past would have been done by people. This is accurate in many ways, but in current society computers cannot run themselves and whilst a website could be run by one person many people opt to employ people to keep the electronic system operating well. This is so that optimization of the website can occur. The more people you have running the website, the better performance the website will provide and the less chance it has of crashing. This has lead to an rise in online jobs. What is an Online Jobs? An online job could be classed as many things but is usually used to describe someone who either owns and manages an internet business or someone who ensures the running of said business. With hardware becoming more and more user friendly – the use of computers in the home rising massively. Over the last five years online jobs have become a viable option as a career, often being favoured over sometimes dull and difficult jobs in an office. This is a natural development in business, making more profit with considerably less human “output”, optimising the way within which companies work.

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