Office Jobs Go Down The Tube

Remote Employment News  Release

June 2009

As commuters across the country get that ‘going underground feeling’ and plan alternate routes to work with the news that another tube strike will disrupt transport to work tomorrow, remote workers and home workers will take the liberty of an extra lie in bed.

They won’t be stressed to get early trains or get into the fast lane of traffic congestion. Instead, they will amble into their home office, switch on their PC and prepare for another day at the office, without commuting interruption, for they are the ‘Home Working Nation’.

With 3.5 million Brits across the UK now working from home and many more millions working remotely, isn’t it about time this way of working became an even more every day work practise?

Thousands of commuters from the South East, the highest proportion of commuters, will spend the equivalent of an additional working day diverting around London in order to avoid the chaos. The region presents the greatest opportunity for the largest number of people to benefit from the introduction of new smarter working practices.

Ken Sheridan, an advocate of remote working and Director of Remote Employment, said (wearing bright pink pyjamas): “More tube strikes will illustrate the opportunity for productive working away from the office. More and more companies are getting in on the remote working action!”

Remote Employment, an online web service dedicated to connecting employers with job seekers who work remotely or work from home, has seen substantial expansion to their business and believes that the wider adoption of smarter working practices, such as flexible working, working from home, mobile and remote working will improve business productivity and reduce transport congestion, especially during tube strikes!

Working from home significantly improves efficiency, enabling businesses to be more competitive. BT are leaders in their flexible working policies and now have more than 70,000 flexible workers, with seven out of 10 people working flexibly and nearly 10% home based.

Remote Employment recently launched The Remote Worker Awards in association with BT Business, to highlight how remote working benefits business mobility, and they are offering life changing prizes such as a home based franchise worth £15k, an Open University study grant and five business start up kits. Along with this they are celebrating companies who are proud of their remote working practises in the Remote Employer Award.

For more details, go online to www.remoteemployment.com. For a chance to win one of the life changing prizes on offer, check out www.remoteworkerawards.com.

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For more information, please contact:

For interviews with Ken Sheridan or Paula Wynne, please call 0844 800 8355 or email paula@remoteemployment.com.

About Remote Employment

Ken Sheridan and Paula Wynne launched remoteemployment.com earlier in the year after finding a gap in the recruitment market for flexible home workers.

They came up with the idea for the business after Paula (a freelancer and mum looking for flexible work from home) was looking for a site that offered outsourcing opportunities and Ken (MD in FMCG sector) was looking for a site to source home workers or freelancers. Remote Employment is the result of their shared vision and answers the squeeze’s flexible working policies.

Remote Employment is a job board that helps recruiters meet the needs of today’s business mobilisation. It provides clients with direct access to highly skilled and experienced professionals who want to work flexibly, remotely or work from home. Within only nine months Remote Employment has built a substantial database of working professionals all with a wide variety of experience, skills and professions.

Remote Employment recently won two business awards. The first was the BT Global Action Plan 'Responsible Business Day' Award and they are currently working towards the BS855 to reduce their carbon footprint.

The second award was the FreshIdeas Events Mentor Competition where Paula was awarded Karen Darby as her mentor for the next six months. Remote Employment is very proud of both these awards.