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Tales of Horror Are Told: The Home Office From Hell™ Contest Enters Final Six Weeks
New York, N.Y.—January 10, 2006—One by one they arrive, Dantean tales of demanding children, maverick pets and meddlesome neighbors, to say nothing of mournfully inadequate workspace. Welcome to The Home Office From Hell™, the netherworld inhabited by those unfortunates who desperately need real office space. Three months ago these homebound souls were asked by Offices2Share.com, a Web site that focuses exclusively on short-term, ready-to-use office space, to submit their Top 10 Reasons for wanting to escape their dining rooms, basements and bedrooms for professional offices. The entries poured in: "You discover that for the last week, your answering machine has instructed callers to 'Leave a message for Spiderman'", bemoaned Chris W. of Cleveland Heights, Ohio. "People keep stopping at my yard sale but I'm not having one," shared Tiffany M. of Terrell, Tex. "I have two career outfits—clean and dirty," wrote Sharron O. of Torrance, Calif. "People have a sense of humor about their home working situations but a large number of them are not happy about it," said Jeffrey A. Landers, founder and president of Offices2share.com. "They have found that clients, spouses, relatives and friends don't consider their home-based business a real business and that whatever it is they do at home is not a real job. These hardworking entrepreneurs want and need the respect that comes from having a real office space but they aren't sure how to go about finding one; they need Offices2share.com." These contest entries show that home office workers, in the words of the late Rodney Dangerfield, "don't get no respect:" "I am tired of people thinking I don't have a real job or anything to do because I don't have to leave home everyday." - Janene A., Fayetteville, N.C. "It's hard to explain that my company is the best when my office seems to be located in the Barnes and Noble." - Arthur L., Houston, Tex. "My friends think that 'I work from home' is code for 'I never miss Oprah.'" - Heather H., Fort Collins, Colo. "Mom, I really do have a job and I'm still not unemployed." - Charles Y., Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. Landers launched The Home Office From Hell contest to reward the author of the wittiest and most compelling Top 10 list with a free 12-month sabbatical in the relative calm of a real office. The winner of The Home Office From Hell contest can select professional office space in any of the hundreds of cities across the U.S. served by Offices2Share.com. Offices2Share.com will pay the winner's rent for up to one year at a maximum of $1000 per month. Entries are being judged by an independent panel that includes volunteers from SCORE, "Counselors to America's Small Business," a national nonprofit organization which provides counseling and training to small businesses.
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