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WORKING FROM HOME:THE GOOD... THE BAD... & HOW THE CLOUD CAN HELP!Working from home – and, for yourself – sounds like a breeze, right? Not quite. Just ask the 4.2 million Americans that are home-based small business owners!* While wearing your slippers to work has its perks, about half of them say that working for yourself is actually more stressful than working for someone else. Below, we’ve broken down the major challenges home-based small business owners face and how cloud business tools can help alleviate some all-too-common problems.

THE WORK-LIFE BALANCING ACT

Home-based small business owners find that work can cause issues with their significant other:

Bedroom:45%

Yard :16%

Basement :15%

Bathroom :13%

Garage:12%

8 out of 10have a place in their home to“hide” & get work done.

Work files and documents are cluttering other parts of the house.

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have missed a business opportunity or had to redoa project because of a lost or deleted file

54% have told a white lie to someone they do business with after a technical glitch

of parents have experienceddata loss because someone in their home used their work computer

45% of respondents think it’slikely they will experience data loss in the future

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31% Late hours take time away from the family.

30% Inability to seporate personal lifefrom professional life.

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The most likely arguments are...

but in reality, almostall are using the cloud 94%

46%Nearly half say they

aren't using the cloudfor their business...

say they aren’t taking full advantage of the cloud in their business!

70%

saves them time

47%

saves them money

52%

31%makes their business appear larger or more established

allows them to use technologypreviously unavailable to small businesses

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of home-based small business owners say using the cloud benefits their business

97%

66%

helps them run their business more smoothly

CLOUD USERS AGREE:

admit to skipping personal commitments (happy hour, child’s recital,workout) to finish up work projects.

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* Home-Based Workers in the United States: 2010." US Census Bureau, 2012. All other data sourced from 2013 survey of home-based small business owners by Wakefield Research for Carbonite.