{"id":4909,"date":"2012-11-26T18:46:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T00:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2012-11-26T18:46:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T00:46:29","slug":"over-50s-stage-work-revolution-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4909","title":{"rendered":"Over-50s stage work revolution from home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/102fd624-37c3-11e2-a97e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2D6x5GgZU\">Sarah O&#8217;Connor:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>From her house in Widnes, beside the river Mersey, Mereli McInerney is working for companies in Dubai, Lithuania and London.<\/p>\n<p>She drafts joint-venture agreements, sets up human resources procedures and guides people through employment tribunals. Some days, if she is feeling unwell \u2013 she is diabetic and suffers from fibromyalgia, which can cause chronic pain \u2013 she works in her pyjamas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe beauty of working from home is, if I\u2019m having a bad day, I can get myself on the sofa, with a few cups of coffee and my laptop and my phone, and work away all day,\u201d says the 50-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Ms McInerney is one of a growing number of older people who are changing the face of Britain\u2019s labour market by choosing to work for themselves.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah O&#8217;Connor: From her house in Widnes, beside the river Mersey, Mereli McInerney is working for companies in Dubai, Lithuania and London. She drafts joint-venture agreements, sets up human resources procedures and guides people through employment tribunals. Some days, if she is feeling unwell \u2013 she is diabetic and suffers from fibromyalgia, which can cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}