The nine to five position. Rewarding? Possibly. It used to be that working nine to five was the most “rewarding” option for anybody wishing to deliver a “good” lifestyle for themselves and their family unit, but in the technical era many people are starting to Work From Home. Why is this so? I believe that it is due to the progression in technology which has allowed the general public access to tools previously used in big organisations by people with expert knowledge in those areas.

The creation of technologies such as the home computer and then the worldwide web have increased the amount of people trying to make a living from organisations that allow them to Work From Home. The ease of use of both the home computer and the internet, together with the many “new” resources available for people to use are a contributing feature in the increase in people working from home. This has shaped the work market where, as anticipated, computers are steadily taking over the jobs that were once done by hand.

How are people working from home? In a lot cases people are working from home using the Internet Business. The use of internet organisations has of late increased due to the achievements of sites like Friends Reunited (which in 2005 sold for ?30,000,000) and Amazon (which was projected 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 comitted 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 end stages (steady income and regular customers). This increasing ease with which internet and home businesses can be operated has contributed to many things. Primarily it has increased a desire for freedom from the “nine to five” and the growth 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 historically would have been done by hand. This is accurate in many ways, but in current society computers cannot run themselves and although a website could be run by one person many people choose to employ people to keep the electronic system running well. This is so that optimization of the website can occur. The more people you have looking after the website, the better performance the website will offer and the less chance it has of crashing. This has lead to an growth in online jobs. What is an Online Jobs? An online job could be classed as many things but is generally used to describe someone who either owns and controls an internet business or someone who maintains the running of said business. With software 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 practicle option as a career, often being favoured over sometimes boring and difficult jobs in an office. This is a natural progression in business, making more profit with considerably less human “output”, optimising the way within which businesses work.