Companies need to be fully aware of the IT implications when their employees are allowed, and nowadays even incentivised, to work from home.

A new study has revealed that working from home could help firms retain staff.

In a move that is likely to be welcomed by anyone who has a home office, Virgin Media is launching its own business broadband packages.

Harnessing the power of technology – through the promotion of video conferencing, for example – to enable more people to work from home is one of the various ways the nation could cut its carbon emissions, according to the government's environmental advisers.

A new poll has discovered that the gap between the intention to provide working-from-home options and actually providing them is large.

Over a third of people who work in the UK admitted that they either worked from home or checked their work emails from home over the 2009 Christmas holiday period.

Business representatives in Wales are urging enterprises to turn to "contingency plans" – such as setting up employees to work from home – during the cold snap. The Welsh spokesperson for the Federation of Small Business issued his comments amid concerns that smaller firms are being particularly affected by freezing weather conditions.

As snow hits the UK and severe weather warnings are issued for the weeks ahead, remote working specialists are urging employers to facilitate homeworking for their staff, thereby helping to avoid the risk of the cold snap impinging on companies' productivity.

Search engine Google has decided to take legal action against web organisations that use its name to promote fraudulent homeworking schemes.

Home-based entrepreneurs are increasingly using Britain's online shopping boom as an opportunity to make some income from their own web-based retail outlets.