Homesourcing also known as homeshoring is the transfer of service industry employment from offices to home based employees with appropriate telephone and Internet facilities . ref name mac cite web title New words work Macmillan English Dictionary url http www.macmillandictionary.com new words 050530 homeshoring.htm accessdate 2007 10 05 ref Homesourcing is best thought of as a combination of outsourcing and telecommuting . Homesourcing refers to hiring employee s or engaging independent contractor s. Homesourced workers are sometimes required to come to an office for training from time to time. Traditionally, employers were most likely to homeshore call centers and other customer service processes. However, this trend is changing as employers realize a wider variety of work is amenable to homeshoring. Knight Ridder Newspapers reports it s no longer just call centers and information technology jobs. Now it s architects, accountants, tax preparers and financial analysts. ref name kn cite journal first Kevin G. last Hall year 2006 not sure year month December 05 title Homeshoring Grows Companies Cut Costs by Shipping Jobs to Workers Homes journal Knight Ridder url http www.itpaa.org modules.php?name News&file article&sid 2062 ref According to researcher IDC Homesourcing is expanding by about 20 a year and homesourcing is on track to explode . ref name bw2 cite journal year 2006 month May 2 title Who s Helping Homeshore Workers? For people interested in jobs that allow flexible hours ... Data Group IDG . http www.idc.com about about.jsp ref Companies using homesourcing US,UK and European companies which have employed homesourcing personnel include center class wikitable style background ... of homesourcing Worker preference homesourced workers often need to work from home or strongly prefer ... are unable to travel to a workplace. In popular culture An early example of homesourcing in fiction ... to her original feed. The mechanism for this homesourcing is not described technically, but it appears ... more details
about the category of business the United Kingdom government department responsible for internal affairs Home Office the practice of using a dedicated room in a private dwelling for office style work Study room no footnotes date May 2011 Small office home office , or SOHO , refers to the category of business or cottage industry that involves from 1 to 10 workers. SOHO can also stand for single office home office . Before the 19th century, and the spread of the industrial revolution around the globe, nearly all offices were small offices and or home offices, with only a few exceptions. Most businesses were small, and the paperwork that accompanied them was limited. The industrial revolution aggregated workers in factories, to mass produce goods. In most circumstances, the so called white collar counterpart office work was aggregated as well in large buildings, usually in cities or densely populated suburban areas. Image Home office small office.JPG thumb right Home office Beginning in the mid 1980s, the advent of the personal computer and fax machine , plus breakthroughs in telecommunications , created opportunities for office workers to decentralize. Decentralization was also perceived as benefiting employers in terms of lower overheads and potentially greater productivity. Many consultant s and the members of such profession s as lawyer s, real estate agents, and Surveyor surveying surveyor s in small and medium size towns operate from home offices. citation needed date August 2011 Several ranges of products, such as the armoire desk and all in one printer , are designed specifically for the SOHO market. A number of books and Family Computing magazines have been published and marketed specifically at this type of office. These range from general advice texts to specific guidebooks on such challenges as setting up a small Private branch exchange PBX for the office telephone s. Technology has also created a demand for Homesourcing larger businesses to employ individu ... more details
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