Homebased Jobs Employers - Are You Kidding?

If you're like most of us residents of cyberspace, you've scoured the on-line job sites looking for job openings where employees can work from home.

Recognize this...

Requirements: Ph.D. in nuclear energy with specialty in rocket science and ophthalmic surgery. Must be proficient in HTML, C, C+, Dreamweaver, COBOL, and any other programming languages we need. Minimum of 25 years experience in project management and supervising at least 500 employees. You must travel to Sheboygan, Wisconsin for four weeks of training at your own expense.

Benefits: None. You will be an independent contractor.

Hardware: PC, Mac, printer, scanner, fax, programming language software.

Compensation: $7 to $8 per hour, depending upon experience.

What?

Or how about these little gems...

Blogger for up-and-coming blog site. We need at least five articles per day, 1,000 to 2,000 words minimum, seven days per week.

Compensation: 10% of all ad revenue on our site. We get a lot of page views every month!

Let's get serious, shall we? Yes, we all know how blessed we are to be able to work at home. Working in our PJs, no commute, no need for a fancy wardrobe, yada, yada, yada. And we love each and every one of those benefits, believe me!

But employers, don't forget that you benefit from the arrangement as well...

1) No need to provide equipment

2) No work space, breakroom, bathroom, or any other square footage is needed for virtual employees

3) No time is lost with employees chit-chatting, planning baby showers, or surfing the 'net on your company computer

4) Most of the time employers don't provide any benefits

And the list goes on.

So why do employers with homebased jobs feel that they can grossly underpay while demanding topnotch skills and experience?

People who work in their homes have to pay their bills, too, and aren't just working for the fun of it.

Undoubtedly, it's because these real homebased jobs are highly sought after and are at a premium that employers feel they can get away with offering such pitiful wages.

Yet as society changes and remote employees aren't the novelty they were two decades ago, more homebased jobs will become available and employers will be forced to pay what their employees are worth, whether or not they are sitting under their nose in their office.

Perhaps the greatest benefit of all to employers of homebased employees is accountability. All other factors are cast aside-personalities, politics, looks-and there will remain just one criterion for judging employees-performance. It can be tough for an employer to evaluate their employees strictly on performance, for a variety of reasons, but when the employee works off-site, that is the only way a worker can be judged and ultimately rewarded.