Working from home one or more days a week allows staff to recharge and return to the office with more energy, according to reports.

The drive towards having home-based workers is "gathering pace" across the UK, according to Stephen Beynon, managing director of ntl:Telewest Business.

Home-based workers need to consider ergonomic issues if they are to be fully productive and avoid aches and pains, it has been suggested.

Millions of British employees have backed the environmentally-friendly arguments for increasing the prevalence of home-based working, according to a recent study.

The growing numbers of people in the UK who do their jobs from home want to work for a boss who leads rather than micromanages, it has been suggested.

Many of the UK’s business bosses have not yet fully adjusted to having a home-based workforce, a new report has suggested.

A bill containing plans for a national flexible working strategy has been presented to parliament in New Zealand and could soon see many thousands of people gain the right to work from home.

IT professionals in the US are increasingly turning to teleworking as opportunities to do so become available, according to recent research.

Small companies can boost their recruitment efforts by implementing flexible working practices, such as home-based working, according to one expert from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

A new pilot scheme in the Canadian city of Cambridge is aiming to reduce the number of cars on the roads by encouraging local government employees to work from home, according to reports.