I came across an interesting figure about home-based workers. In England the number of at-home workers went from 2.9 million in 1999 to 3.3 million in 2004. The little news bite also mentioned the many benefits that rural communities in England were realizing from home-based workers such as reducing commuting and all the issues that come from that such as traffic congestion, pollution, and accidents as well as concentrating money into the local economy.
I realized the benefits of being a work-from-home mom but I never really thought about how it might effect my community. For the last 3 weeks I have been wearing my taxi driver hat in order to take my 21 year old son to and from his job, which is a good 25 miles away-one way. The first 10 miles covers the same route I used to take with my last job. Can I say I don't miss the commute one little bit? One less car out there to produce exhaust and add to the road rage seems like a great benefit to my community.
