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After ?Com­modi­ties?, let?s start to ana­lyze “Home­sourc­ing”, another intrigu­ing word linked to our daily expe­ri­ence as ?work­ing human being? or ?whub?. (I?m going to trade­mark whub, it?s a mix­ture of sounds and looks like the name of a robot, a not so smart one but faith­ful enough). So, you whubs, how much of your salary are you ready to give up if your com­pany gives you the oppor­tu­nity to work at home? Let?s think about it.

It hap­pened to every­one to be con­gested into a traf­fic jam on the way for your office, spend­ing hours of your valu­able time push­ing on the clutch and think­ing about the green fields of your past youth. You arrive 2 hours later and think that some of the time you spent in your cubi­cle could be spent at home, work­ing at the same pace but prob­a­bly in bet­ter con­di­tions. New tech­nolo­gies could help us to be con­nected with our net­work, made of col­leagues, cus­tomers, sup­pli­ers, directly from home. It?s called ?home­work?, and it applies to every clerk who is free to spend his work­ing time at home or in the office, nor­mally with­out rules and enough free­dom to choose, day by day, his final des­ti­na­tion. He is the real man­ager of his time and job; nor­mally it works on a project and looks after its final deliv­ery, so who cares about his work­ing posi­tion in the 3D space?

Home­sourc­ing is a bit dif­fer­ent, let?s Wiki help us:
?Home­sourc­ing is a term that describes the hir­ing of peo­ple who work from their home instead of in an office or other busi­ness place.?

It?s from the begin­ning that you choose to spent your work­ing life at home, there is no office for you, no desk, no cof­fee pots with friends or shared print­ers, your home is your bat­tle­field. Sev­eral tasks are required to be home­sourced, from the call cen­ter employ­ees to sales, cus­tomer care to ser­vices, and a grow­ing num­ber of peo­ple are ready to pur­sue this career.
There are sev­eral advan­tages that derives from home­sourc­ing, and it?s hard to iden­tify wich is the best. We?re not talk­ing about out­sourc­ing, where com­pa­nies rent peo­ple for a lim­ited time frame and for spe­cific projects, we?re talk­ing about real employ­ees, that take the oppor­tu­nity to live their work­ing lifes in a con­di­tion they like, and their loy­alty is big­ger than the aver­age. Com­pa­nies take advan­tages from increas­ing work­ing per­for­mances, as some of them declared, and salary and taxes val­ues could be influ­enced by the spe­cial sit­u­a­tion con­se­quent from home­sourc­ing conditions.

As men­tioned above, home­work is not applic­a­ble to all the pro­fes­sions, espe­cially if you change from spend­ing time in the office to the home con­di­tion, because you prob­a­bly lose your con­tacts and rela­tions and feel neglected.

Home­sourc­ing is like a phi­los­o­phy of life, you exchange a stan­dard work­ing con­di­tion for a bet­ter one, or for some­thing that is sim­i­lar to your life style.

Why do I blog this?
Only to intro­duce the brand new word WHUB (I love it), but don’t be so sure…
(image cour­tesy of http://​www​.tex​as​free​way​.com/)

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