A recycled idea from

centuries ago when most
people worked on their
family's farm, in their
backyard workshop, of in a
atreetfront stare, home-based
businesses are flourishing in

B.C.

With the industrial

There's Room tc Grow in Home-

revolution came the
dailycommute to the
factories, supermarkets and
skysesapers. Elome Tife and
work life became separate
worlds, With the downsizing
of large organizations, small
home-based businesses have
grown in numbers co over
two million in Canada.
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economic necessity and case
of communication have
motivated peaple to work at
home.

Trathte yams, pollunen,
and car accidents are other
Teasons many people have
for waning the comfort of
working at home. The cost
of tenting office space,
paying for child care and
wearing the latest fashions to
work becomes unnecessary
with the technology that's
available to us in cur homes.

OPPORTUNITIES IN
HOME-BASED
BUSINESS
Telecommuting

Jobs relying on computer-
stored information (e.g. jour-
nalists, researchers, praphic
designers). Attached with an

roy

Based Business

vlectronic umbilical cord,
home-based employees use
computer modems to
communicate with their
employers and transmit work
hack and forth.

Increasingly, employers
are seeing the advantages of
having their employees work
from home. A pilot project
at IBM's Ottawa office
involving 29 employees who
worked from their hames
saved the computer giant
over $1 million in overhead
costs.

Service industry

Mobile DJs, pet sitters, horse
cleaners, — craftspeorle,
counselling and health care
professionals, land capers
and plumbers are examples
of professions which are
experiencing steady growth

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in home-based husiness.

“T ger asked to do
almost everything to help
people cope,” says Diane °
Manore of Leave ft to Me fing, by ne:-tarally
Services, From her cece Oy vey Foe
Vancouver home, she travels: ‘members ;
by car to handle other |:
people's chores: collecting
drycleaning, organizing
dinner parties, taking cars in
for service. Like many other
entreprencurs with no need
for a. storefront or a
warehouse space, her
operation is ideally suited to
being home-based.

Tide

Change

*Look for new jobs in
service industries such as
tourism, and in diversified
manufacturing. Telecom-
munications, specialty
clothing and food, plastic
fabricating and recreation-
related services are all
poised for growth,

Opportunities in B.C. are
increasingly localized in
Nature ~~ every community
is different.

©85 per cent of all new jobs
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