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Could You Telecommute From Italy?

On The Job

Sometimes the highlight of my day is meeting the new UPS driver. Or cleaning out my keyboard that has become gummed up with peanut butter (the hazards of eating at your desk.) That's why I was intrigued to talk to someone who broke away from the mundane working world and set himself up to work from a truly fabulous place.

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Reduce Your Company’s Carbon Footprint

Eco-Office Gals

From offsetting to telecommuting, we give you several ways to make this goal a reality: Computers. Think about implementing a thin-client setup where employees use low-end terminals (often a monitor, keyboard and mouse) connected to a server which runs the operating systems and applications they need. Adopting Telecommuters.

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Working From Home a Challenge

On The Job

So the dog and two cats appear, dumping over the trash, barfing up something they should not have eaten, and scrambling to lie on the computer keyboard, my lap or whatever papers I need, all the while drooling and shedding and panting and meowing. So they breathe until I can’t stand it and I look up. Run it up the flagpole.