Business process outsourcing company TeleTech has initiated a recruitment drive aimed at finding 500 home-based call centre staff in Wales, according to reports.

Graduates around the UK are keen to establish a better work-life balance for themselves as they start their professional lives, according to the people aiming to recruit them.

In news that could encourage Britons to start working from home, a recent report has shown that adults in the UK work longer hours and take less holidays than their counterparts in other European countries.

Many thousands of mothers in the US are turning to home-based working as a way to maintain a better work-life balance, according to reports.

Environmental concerns mean the majority of Australians would support incentives designed to encourage home-based working, it has been revealed.

The increase in teleworking among federal government employees in the US has led to a greater focus on network and information security issues, according to a recent study.

The benefits of enabling staff to work from home have been praised by the chief executive of computer infrastructure solutions firm Sun Microsystems.

An ongoing pilot scheme in France could see more employees across the country made able to work from home or on the move before the end of the year, it has emerged.

Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) technology can help businesses boost their productivity by establishing a more mobile and flexible workforce, one expert has asserted.

A newly established IP-based communications network has seen the British government’s Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) enable many more of its employees to work from home.