Redundancy May Have An Effect On The Number Of Folk Selecting To Work From Their Home

The end of the week comes around and an invitation drops into your inbox for an all hands meeting on Monday morning. Speculation is widespread. What is going on? Are we canning the current project? Are jobs on the line? It is a long weekend.

Monday comes – eventually! The top managers are at the meeting – it must be serious then! Yes it is. They are looking to close the site in six months’ time and everyone’s job is at risk of redundancy. Shock sets in. The whole site will be shut down. Around two hundred staff looking for work. It is a horror story come true.

There you were, doing a first class job for the business, paying your mortgage and household bills, running a nice car and suddenly somebody else has pulled the rug from under your feet. You are annoyed, hurt, confused, but you realize that you must gather your thoughts and make up your mind what your next course of action will be.

It may be that you choose you are never going to put yourself in this position again, and one way to achieve this would be to Work From Home, for yourself. You have many skills and it is important to be convinced of them when your career bubble has just exploded. At a time when the Internet Business is gathering pace, you may find the best Online Jobs are just waiting for you.

While you are still in negotiation with the business, it would be a brilliant time to re-train, so that by the time you are redundant, you are ready to start up your Internet Business and can hit the ground running. Hopefully your redundancy payment will allow you to spend a little time building up your new business and being paid for any work you have achieved to date. You may even find that you have found a niche market and can afford to offer Online Jobs to some of your ex-colleagues who also would love to be able to Work From Home, but perhaps do not wish to set up in business for themselves. You are very much aware of the skills you all have and know how best to use these.

When you are thinking about your Internet Business opportunities, it may be that you make the decision to use your current skills in a totally new way. You were always flattered for your presentation skills, your ability to present precisely and in a way that captured the attention of your audience. Could these skills be used in any of the Online Jobs available? You were busy making web pages for your company. Perhaps it would be possible to turn around this skill and look at jobs which involve search engine optimisation.

The key thing to remember when this happens is that you do have abilities which can be used outside of your current role. This is sometimes tough to remember when you have worked for the same business for a number of years. Rule out nothing. If you would like to continue in your current style of job, then be certain your CV is up to date and keep applying. If you feel you would rather Work From Home then look at all the options open to you, find a job you are really going to enjoy doing and put in the time and effort to make it work.

Whatever happens, remember it is the company that is closing, or downsizing, not you personally who are being sacked and you have much to offer in your next job.