Broadband enables independence

Without high speed Internet access, many small independents just couldn't exist. But there's another side to that: broadband also enables independence.

When you think about it, the distinction between a self employed independent and a remote teleworker isn't much, and in some cases may be nothing more than a distinction in the law or habit by the employer and the employed. That is, although teleworkers may be legally employees, and although both the company and the teleworker may be thinking in terms of those traditional relationships, in fact there's often no real reason why the worker couldn't be independent.

That's often even more obvious when the work is part time. If you are, for example, a teleworker providing a few hours of remote work to (for example) a medical office, it's easy for you to imagine providing a few more hours of similar work to another medical office. That's an insight that can lead to true self employment and independence.

Broadband isn't necessary for all such circumstances, of course. But it does make many kinds of work possible that were formerly difficult or impossible to do from home.

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