In the last twenty years, a growing segment of the
population is calling it quits in 'Corporate America' and refocusing their energies into
some type of work from home. Though reasons for this trend are many and varied, there
appears to be numerous common elements underlying the corporate worker's attraction to
work from home. A Division of Allegro Global Marketing Group, Inc Corporations,
in the face of increased competition from abroad, routinely exercise layoffs in an attempt
to remain competitive in today's global economic marketplace.
Just as the baby boomer generation had infiltrated the job market
beginning in the mid-1960's, it appears that they are starting to leave the job market as
they begin to move into their retirement years. Unlike prior generations, however, in
which the work force was able to support retirees with programs like social security,
those retiring in the next decade or so, are facing the very real possibility, if not
probability, that the social security system will weaken, if not collapse altogether by
the sheer numbers of people it will need to support. Coupled with the fact that medical
advances are allowing us to live longer, the situation poses some particularly difficult
choices for many of us. Even if we sensed adequate security in our present positions to
make it to retirement, what then? If we haven't saved sufficient money to meet our
financial needs for what could amount to 20 and more years following retirement, many of
us will have little choice but to find some way of supplementing our incomes to maintain
some acceptable standard of living. This realization underlies much of the growing
interest in working from home.
