Making Money From Home By Joseph Slife

CBN.com – For many of our forebears, home wasn't just a place to live—it was a center of commerce. Whether by running a cottage industry or a family farm, our ancestors earned a living not far from where they ate and slept. Work began moving away from home during the industrial revolution. Now, in the information age, work-at-home jobs are gaining new ground. In this article, we examine several work-at-home options—and alert you to common work-at-home scams.

Every morning, I roll out of bed about 6:30, take a shower, eat breakfast, read from the Word, and head to work. In my case, work is about five steps from the kitchen. I am among the estimated 20-30 million of Americans who work from home. Read More

Making Money with a Media Website

Do a web search of media sites and you'll discover thousands. But it's much more difficult to find those that generate dollars in addition to traffic. Making money with a media website begins by deciding how you want to create website revenue. Read More

When working from home with baby at hand

When working from home with baby at hand (Thinkstock photos/Getty Images)

While you might have opted to work from home in order to stay close to your baby, it can be tougher than you imagined. Here's how to do the balancing act. Read More

10 Best (and Real) Work-at-Home Jobs

Searching for jobs you can do from home used to be a matter of scanning the Sunday classifieds for offers to get rich quick by stuffing envelopes.
Now, exposure to at-home employment opportunities has exploded, and a wide range of job ads are just a mouse click away. But so are the scams. In 2007, when The Rat Race Rebellion began tracking at-home jobs, there were 30 scams for every legitimate opportunity. Now, with 4,500 to 5,000 work-at-home job ads screened weekly, the website finds 60 phonies for every one that's for real, says Christine Durst, co-founder and principal of Staffcentrix LLC, the company that owns and manages RatRaceRebellion.com..... 
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10 Big Companies That Will Let You Work From Home

Job seekers who want to join the remote workforce may want to start looking for positions in the health care or information technology industries, new data shows.

A study by FlexJobs — an online service for professionals seeking telecommuting, flexible-schedule, part-time and freelance jobs — revealed that some industries are much moreflexible than others. In addition to health care and IT, education, nonprofit and philanthropy, and sales and marketing all offer the type of flexibility many job seekers want.

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New Health and Work Service to get long-term sick back to work

People off sick for more than four weeks are to be offered advice to get them back to work more quickly under a scheme being set up by the government.

The Health and Work Service, which will cover England, Wales and Scotland, will offer non-compulsory medical assessments and treatment plans.

It will be run by the private sector and paid for by scrapping compensation to employers for statutory sick pay.

Ministers say employers will save money overall by having fewer staff off sick.

They said it may save companies up to £70m a year in reduced sickness pay and related costs.

Labour's shadow work and pensions minister, Kate Green, said: "Any help to cut number of days lost to sickness is welcome, but with the government's Work Programme helping just 5% of people on sickness and disability benefits into jobs, it is clear much more needs to done to help people get back to work."

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