The concept of doing business from home, or having a work-from-home business, has been very popular since the last decade. Statistics reveal that 45% of the self-employed are from the management and related sectors. The sales people who have worked in home offices were about 3%. In 2004, around 40% of Asians were self employed. During 2005, a survey states that around 45 million Americans work from home. Over 80% of them have computers at home. All these statistics denote the fact that the business of working from home has been spread throughout the world, irrespective of the geographical boundaries.

Telecommuting is a process whereby the working can be done at home or even from a satellite location. People get more time to complete their work than traveling to the office. Traffic delays in peak hour can also be a major factor in delaying most of their jobs. Companies are not able to hire people from long distances, even though they are talented. The concept of the home office has broken the geographical hurdles, and has provided a global platform for people to work from anywhere. Job satisfaction and work performance levels are higher in working from home. The firms which offer work-at-home jobs are able to retain their employees.

There are instances where the home office has performed successfully, managed the competition, and remained established for a quite long period. Natural disasters have forced countries to find out the alternatives for the absence of the local workplaces.

One should be very careful before taking up the home job from the people who intend to make quick money techniques. There are very common fraud schemes like chain marketing, pyramid schemes and envelope stuffing. Try to get the right information about the company in the printed form about their location, their history, their business customers, the refund policy, and the mode of your payment.

Finding out the references of the people who are active members in the business and discussing the experiences with the company would certainly give you complete information of the job and the company profile. You can use your credit card or open a PayPal account, which is a secured online payment service. Following these procedures will put you in a safe position in case of any disputes. The potential power of the Internet and Intranet are playing a vital role in transforming the international economic scenario with the steady increase in the information technology sectors.