A lot of employment agencies and similar service-based businesses work to get you a job in a cubicle. The WorkingHabitat Group wants to keep you out of that cubicle and in your home, but still at work.
The Auburn Hills-based firm pairs white-collar workers with jobs they can do from the ease of their homes. The idea is that Metro Detroit has more new-economy workers than jobs, so why not pair them with telecommuting assignments from outside the region, thereby negating the need to move. The firm has 18 companies looking for new independent contractors, and dozens of job candidates.
"Great things are happening," says Tim Calkins, president and CEO of The WorkingHabitat Group. "Our agenda is to help Michigan's white collar workers."
It would also launch them into the ultra-flexible workforce of the 21st Century where more people work from 1099s than W2s. It basically turns the traditional model of employment (retiring after 40 years at the same company) on its heads, allowing people to work as hard or as seldom as they please from the comfort of their home.
The one-year-old company based in Macomb County started with two employees and now has five. It hopes to make 5-10 more hires within the next year.
Source: Tim Calkins, president and CEO of The Working Habitat Group
Writer: Jon Zemke
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