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Working five to nine – is working from home for you?

Do you want to join over 2.8 million people nationally who are already running their business from home? Here are some of the benefits:

• Lower risk by starting up alongside your day job
• Lower overheads
• Flexibility to work around your other commitments
• No loss of work time sat in rush hour traffic jams
• Less workplace stress
• Better for the environment

Yorkshire and the Humber is the number two hotspot nationally after the south east for home businesses. In our region alone, almost 200,000 home businesses are already contributing nearly £19 billion to the regional economy.

Business Link Yorkshire is the perfect place to come to find out more about home working. Its customer information centre can offer essential advice, and also has hints and tips factsheets such as Thinking of Working for Yourself, and guides like How to Set up and Run a Business from Home.

How can we help? 

If you are thinking of starting a business from home and want to find out more why not attend one of our events on working from home. To find out more download our guide or book on an event.

Also the following links are invaluable and will save you a tremendous amount of time and effort doing the all important research:

Using your home as a workplace

Using your home for business purposes

Insurance for businesses set up from home


A Guide to Developing a Basic Website for Your Business

Business IT Guide

Enterprise Nation

To talk to one of our advisers about working from home contact us on: 08456 048 048, or email info@businesslinkyorkshire.co.uk