Over the last 5 years the numbers of internet business start-ups offering online jobs through a workforce who work from home has enlarged exponentially. Real Estate Managers have responded to this by offering new office solutions, which reduce space use or decrease moving costs. This increased flexibility, which assists the new Internet Business model ( a model in which construction is not necessarily connected to the location of an individual) is idea for homeworkers. However more is required than just new office dividing concepts. The present developments require a new approach on the way that the company interfaces with its environment.

In modern management thinking, importance is given to the amount of independence a staff member is given. In the internet business model, where a large number of the workforce have online jobs, some or all of them will Work From Home. This becomes obvious in offering different work places, from which an employee may carry out there responsibilities. The difficulty is that as far as Online Jobs are concerned that role could be carried anywhere the employee can achieve access to the internet, pubs, libraries, boats, or what is now the “customary” approach they could just work from home. Though freedom of choice is beneficial, the employee becomes responsible for choosing the optimal place to work.

From the moment an employee is made independently accountable for the results of his work, he will demand the best possible work setting and within many organisations that follow the Internet Business model the choice of that employee will be to conduct their online job whilst working from home.

The key for the organisation is to be able to meet that aspiration and provide the necessary support, facilities and equipment to allow that employee to Work From Home. A work station should at the very least be good in providing what it is supposed to. In the case of those employees who decide to work from home then the work place also doubles as a residence, with the usual needs that entails, such as visitor accommodation, storage problems etc. Interestingly more and more organisations are finding that employees with online jobs who choose to Work From Home already have the majority of the facilities and spaces on offer as they easily fit in around existing needs.

The traditional domestic dwelling has, in most cases, rooms that are appropriate for focused work, screen based or otherwise which are of course required for Online Jobs. They are also fit for relaxation and thinking which is without reservation one of the key requirements for knowledge workers whether they work from home or in an office. The home alternative can often beat the office in these terms as, in particularduring the day, home can offer uninterrupted space.