Mothers@Work
Remember the time when mother used to spend her days hunched behind the sewing machine or the kitchen sink. Well, she still hunches today. Only this time, she bends over a 15″ fruity coloured iMac where she spends a good five hours working the keys on the board. Move over soccer moms. Make way for…
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New Profile Of The Homeworker
Source: Sunday Star Some three decades, my family and I lived in a village where a woman who worked from home occupied the house next to ours.
Interview with Chong Sheau Ching, eHomemakers.net (Malaysia)
Source: TheMediaResearchHub, 2002 eHomemakers (formerly known as Mothers for Mothers, www.eHomemakers.net) was founded in 1998 by a grassroots volunteer group to network homemakers and homeworkers together for economic, gender and social empowerment through ICT. We did barter exchange with the corporate sector when we first started the network with conferences and the entire organizing committed…
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Working Together As A Team, Virtually
Source: Hooi You Ching from The Star InTech SOCIAL issues are gradually getting the kind of web presence they deserve. Not surprisingly then, the information superhighway is paving the way for greater empowerment for individuals in a civil society. One such organisation to realise the tremendous potential of the Internet as a community service provider…
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Home Sweet Work?
Source: The Star Weekender, 5 October 2002 Could it be a reflection on Malaysian work culture that more people aren’t in a position to give happy testimonies about the home as one’s office? Working from home independently is a personal option, but companies could start the ball rolling by offering the option of teleworking. Director…
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Working From Home
Source: Lee Siew Peng from The Star Weekender SOMETIMES, you just got to know when to quit. For Tiffany Tang, the epiphany came two months after giving birth, when she was pick-pocketed on her way home. Feeling that she had lost her street smarts “I was just rushing everywhere for the sake of my child”…
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