Montana Women Take Advantage of Working From Home

Remote work — that is, working from a home office — is growing more popular due to constant advances in technology and globalization. Skype and FaceTime conference meetings, previously depicted only in science fiction movies, are now standard tools for many Montanans working conveniently and less expensively from home — often far away from the nearest Montana city and traditional brick-and-mortar employment.

Broadband, which the Federal Communications Center defines as Internet service with “25 megabits per second download speed and three megabits per second upload speed,” is creeping its way across rural Montana. Taking advantage of broadband’s slow-but-steady expansion across the state, rural Montana economic developers and policymakers shared with us, creates the possibility of extra income for families and individuals who need another viable job in the family to sustain or supplement their income.