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.
