4. Working from Home

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Working from home is the most common location for those following the Out of Office work style. The Bureau of Labor estimated that in 2010, 23 percent of all full-time employees worked from home and 64 percent of all self-employed workers worked from home.

Image That is a lot of people who have adopted this lifestyle and who are making space in their homes for business.

Strangely enough, this isn’t a new phenomenon; as much as we like to imagine the Internet as having created a new way of doing everything from working to shopping ...

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