Do computer have to look ugly? Not if you can personalize it and make it consistent with your fitments. IBM computer set-ups aimed at the home user, for business or recreation, investigate products and services. The home office market is growing. For corporate flexible workers may prove to be ideal, offering both security and physical protection. According to the academic research, there are 200,000 home businesses in New Zealand; it is a significant part of New Zealand economy (Homebizbuzz, 2002, p2). This report is to discuss and advise on home-working flexibility in the global economic. .
Home-working means work at home, it is one kind of work. Work at home provides time flexibility and structure flexibility, a flexible working opportunity, balance work and life, benefits both individuals and organizations. Most of homeworkers are writer, musician, designer, drawer and some IT person. .
2. Discussion.
2.1 Time flexibility and structure flexibility.
Home-working improves flexibility, both time flexibility and structure flexibility. The traditional organizational structures are cumbersome and hard to change. Those homeworkers are adaptable in our rapidly changing world. Such as the home-working practice in China, it is known as SOHO. This word came from the middle of 80s in America; it means Small Office Home Office. What they need are just a small room, a computer, a fax machine, a printer, and a scanner. Most of SOHO people are writers, and computer technician. SOHO people have no fixed working hours. Sometimes they work all day; sometimes they do not work at all. It could be change depends on homeworker's job. It is more flexibility than work in an organisation where there is a fixed working time. A stock analyzer Mr. Gu said, " I need level-headed in order to improve my working efficiency, I hope my working space has less interferential factors and more feeling about working". So he separates his working room and his living space.