Homeworkers should ensure they network regularly and "get out and about" to avoid becoming isolated. That's the top tip from one home-based worker in Bradford, named as a homeworking hotspot in a BT-sponsored report last week.

Cost savings and an improved work/life balance for employees are the aims behind one local authority's plans to introduce homeworking, it has emerged.

Introducing flexible working practices or offering employees the opportunity to work from home could go some way towards reducing the billion-pound cost of productivity lost to stress, depression and other mental health problems every year.

A new homeworking project in Scotland aims to create jobs and reduce reliance on limited public transport in the rural seaboard communities of Easter Ross.

The rise of the virtual assistant (VA) has been identified as another outcome of both the recession and the growing trend for flexible, home-based working.

A new homeworking venture is being launched by Dell in collaboration with a US college that will train technicians to provide support for consumer and corporate computing systems.

Over half of accountants in the UK believe having the option to work from home would "greatly improve" their work-life balance.

Home improvements experts across the pond are using National Work From Home Week (4-10 October) to highlight some of the easiest ways to "set up shop" away from the office.

Flexible employment options, such as the chance to work from home, are being denied to many thousands of mothers around the UK, a new report has suggested.

Britons aged between 18 and 34 are among the most likely to want the opportunity to work outside their traditional office space, according to a recent study.