Home working - not a new phenomenon but one that has become more redundant in recent years as SME's have been forced to cut any unnecessary costs.
With experts encouraging SME's to embrace home working and insisting attitudes must change, it seems home working might be about to receive the kind of boost it deserves.
But home working doesn't suit all jobs. We've come up with a list of the top 10 work at home jobs in that were the most popular in 2009:
1. Customer Service: New technology, such as the internet, has made it incredibly easy for a lot of customer services jobs to be completed at home. General duties include call answering, addressing complaints, admin work and so on.
2. Telemarketing: It's easy to see why telemarketing is such a popular work at home job. Most telemarketing jobs involve making cold calls over the company's broadband connection to sell a particular product.
3. Transcription: Transcription jobs include listening to audio files and typing them into written form. The most common areas for transcription are medical and general. You might require more training for medical transcriptions because it involves more specialist medical phrases and terms.
4. Web design: Web design home working suits both freelancers and company workers. Many web designers feel they work best when working from home away from the noise and crowds of the office.
5. Writing: Writing is the perfect job for home working thanks to the flexibility it requires. There are thousands of writers required in all sorts of industries every year and working from home can save companies lots in office costs.
6. Graphic design: Graphic design involves the creation of visual images such as graphics, logos and artwork. Like web designers, graphic designers often work best in a quiet, secluded environment such as the home.
7. Sales: This is similar to telesales but could also involve visiting clients on a daily basis. Sales jobs might involve having a telephone, fax machine and computer installed in your house.
8. Virtual Assisting: Virtual assistants are becoming more and more popular as SME's look for alternative ways to cut costs. Skills involve basic computer knowledge including Word, e-mail and Excel and involves duties such as arranging meetings, doing clerical work and sending mailings.
9. Teaching: Home tutoring is becoming more and more popular as people look to gain more skills and qualifications to add to their CV. Most tutoring roles require teaching experience and training.
10. Consulting: Consultants are needed all the time on subjects such as life coaching, law and medicine. More often than not consulting is done on a freelance basis rather than working for one individual company.
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