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When Sara Minor wanted to boost the family side of her work-life balance, the 43-year-old mother of three teenagers traded her part-time commuter job for a full-time position — working from home.
Her job as a human resources coordinator for Keeping Your Balance, a payroll, bookkeeping and accounting service, keeps Minor closer to her husband, Matt, and their children while keeping her off the road during rush hour.
“When I finish working between 5:30 and 6, I walk downstairs and start dinner; I don’t walk downstairs to start my one-hour commute home,” Minor said.
Minor, who lives in Rocklin, Calif., used to work one day at home and commute 50 miles round trip to a Sacramento office four days a week. She found her unexpectedly good work-from-home job through FlexJobs, a subscription-based online service connecting job seekers with remote and flexible opportunities.
FlexJobs recently compiled its list of 10 surprising telecommuting jobs for mothers seeking employment that supports work-life balance:
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says 7 in 10 women with children younger than 18 participate in the labor force, meaning they are employed or looking for work.
“Many mothers have a need or a desire to work professionally while also being more available for their families than traditional jobs have allowed, and telecommuting jobs provide more opportunity to be successful in both of these roles,” said Sara Sutton Fell, founder and CEO of FlexJobs.
Telecommuting refers to work you can perform from home, and professional-level telecommuting jobs can offer both full-time or part-time schedules, Fell said.
Minor said she previously worked part time so she could take her kids, Nicholas, 16, Alexander, 14, and Jenna, 13, to school in the morning and be back in time to pick them up.
“Now I work full-time from home and am actually able to do more,” she said. “If one of them is sick or forgets their lunch, I can pop right over to the school. There’s no “popping right over” from Sacramento. If they have a teacher work day or holidays, I am still here all day with them, not at work 25 miles away getting phone calls about what they’re doing to each other!”
Other advantages she mentioned: “I throw laundry in and unload the dishwasher on my breaks, and if we need a service call or are expecting a package, I’m home! I can even run to the grocery store and back on my lunch hour.”
Besides finding her own job through FlexJobs, Minor says she uses the website to recruit for her company.
“It widens the talent pool exponentially and keeps overhead down, not to mention how many cars it keeps off the roads,” she said.
It’s not only moms who want a better work-life balance, says a survey by EY (formerly Ernst & Young accounting). One-third of full-time workers globally say that managing work and life has become more difficult in the past five years and being able to work flexibly is important to them.
Among its findings:
“FlexJobs found that 92% of working parents believe they can be both great employees and great parents,” Fell said. “And we wholeheartedly agree.”
This post originally appeared on Money Talks News.
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