Telework and Homeshoring Embracing More Home-Based Professionals, Reports Staffcentrix

Staffcentrix, a leading supplier of virtual career training to the Armed Forces, reported today that its research indicates a growing trend in the homeshoring movement toward higher-end, professional work. Publishers of The Rat Race Rebellion, a popular weekly bulletin of screened telework and freelance jobs, Staffcentrix has tracked trends in the virtual assistant and virtual professional arena since 1999.

Woodstock, Connecticut (PRWEB) March 16, 2005 ---- Staffcentrix, a leading provider of virtual assistant and virtual career training for the Armed Forces, and publishers of The Rat Race Rebellion, a weekly bulletin of screened telework and freelance jobs, announced today that its research shows a growing trend toward higher-end professional opportunities in the burgeoning homeshoring movement.

Staffcentrix has been tracking trends in home-based virtual careers since 1999, but expanded its coverage in 2004 with the launch of The Rat Race Rebellion, whose research team rejects on average 30 home-based job opportunities for every one selected. Since then, Editor-in-Chief Michael Haaren has noted a steady increase in jobs for higher-end professionals.

Were seeing the marketplace broaden its embrace of home-based workers, beyond the administrative and technical area and further into the ranks of professionals and other specialists," Haaren reports. In addition to virtual attorneys and CPAs, were finding more and more positions for translators, editors, interpreters, resume writers, nurses and teachers. Hirers are also leveraging the Internet to improve and cut costs in older project-fulfillment models in unexpected areas. Virtual mock jurors is a good example, with law firms now using home-based individuals and Internet tools to predict how an actual jury might respond to a pending case."

We had assumed some time ago that professional opportunities would expand," says Staffcentrix CEO Christine Durst, who is credited with having founded the virtual assistant industry in 1995. It simply follows the marketplaces adoption of remote administrative and similar services, where innovation carried less perceived risk. With virtual assistance, small businesses did the hiring, and, as they often do, showed their larger brethren a better way of doing business --- the 'homeshoring of higher-end services. Throw broadband and evolving collaboration tools into the mix, and it all makes sense."

Reflecting the homeshoring trend, Durst and Haaren recently co-authored THE 2-SECOND COMMUTE, the first mainstream primer for virtual assistants. The book is due out in July from Career Press, and is available for pre-order at Amazon.com.

Homeshoring (also known as homesourcing) has received increasing attention in the media, most recently with a series of articles by Network Worlds Toni Kistner. In her popular Telework Beat newsletter, Kistner, who has been covering virtual call center trends since 2003 and the telework arena generally for 4-5 years, cites a recent report by IDC estimating that some 100,000 US call center agents are currently home-based.

For additional information on The Rat Race Rebellion, or to request a sample issue for professional review, contact: Michael Haaren, Editor-in-Chief, at mhaaren(insert@)staffcentrix.com.

Subscriptions to The Rat Race Rebellion are available at

http://www.2secondcommute.com/RRR.htm.

For additional information on Toni Kistners Telework Beat, see http://www.nwfusion.com/net.worker/columnists/kistner.html. The IDC report is available through http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=pr2004_12_14_110307.