AUGUSTA โ€” Gov. John Baldacci has begun an experiment that would allow state employees to work flexible schedules โ€” including four-day workweeks of 10-hour days and some telecommuting from home โ€” to help workers save money on gas.

Ted Kennedy to work from his home this fall (Deseret Morning News)

Sen. Edward Kennedy, who has brain cancer, will not be on Capitol Hill this week when Congress returns from its summer break. He intends to work from his Massachusetts home this fall and return to the Senate in January.

New HR director returns home after work with NBA, State Department (The Charleston Gazette)

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- After a decade of fast-paced work in New York City, Kelly Turner decided to bring her human resources career experience back home to West Virginia.Turner, a Charleston native, began work Tuesday as the new director of human resources f...

Soaring household bills could force 1.5m stay-at-home mothers back to work (Daily Mail)

Around 1.5million stay-at-home mothers may be forced to go back to work to cope with soaring household bills, research suggests.

Sites cater to the lonely self-employed (Chicago Tribune)

The isolation of working from home has some entrepreneurs turning to shared work sites Across the country, spaces are springing up to meet the demands of a new workforce, made up of self-employed entrepreneurs or part-time employees for whom the freedom of padding down the hallway to their home office in slippers and pajamas has turned into a home-based version of solitary confinement. ...