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.