Will Increasing Gas Prices Increase Home Sourcing?
As gas prices increase, more and more people want to cut back on their commutes. The expense of driving is very hard on employees. This may steadily increase the willingness of companies to allow home sourcing. Home sourcing is a sort of counter trend to outsourcing, where jobs leave the country so that companies can save money. Home sourced jobs move into people’s homes. It’s rather like telecommuting, but many people who telecommute also regularly go to the office. It seems to me that home sourcing is a term applied when the job is more exclusively at home. There are a lot of companies that have been doing this for a while. LiveOps, for example. It’s more or less a new term for something that has been happening as technology allows. There are advantages to employers as well. Their costs to maintain employees working from their own homes is far less than it is for employees working out of their offices. They don’t have to supply them with a place to work, a computer or other supplies,
