Questão 12

TEXTO:

 Working From home

    Robin Gagliardi, 30, is an administrative assistant
for the Westchester County, New York, clerk’s office.
After her daughter, Kristina, was born four years ago,
Gagliardi asked her supervisor if she could work
[5] part time. The supervisor suggested she remain full
time, working a few days a week from home — an
arrangement that had never been tried before by the
organization. It paid off: the number of information
that she processed rose from 60 a day to 100. Since
[10] the arrangement was so successful, Gagliardi began
working full time from home.
John Williams was forced to take early retirement
at the corporation where he had worked for 31 years.
He thought that looking for a new job would be too
[15] difficult for a 58-year-old. Instead, he decided to follow
his entrepreneurial instincts.
Williams was an expert at home repairs, and over
the years he’d received many calls from divorced or
widowed women asking for help with leaky faucets or
[20] defective doors. So Williams founded Rent a Husband
Handyman Service $\in$ his Rockville, Md., home — and
has had a continuous series of work ever since.
Robin Gagliardi and John Williams are members
of a fast-growing job force: people who work out of
[25] their homes.
Today, many businesses permit employees to
work at home, including giants such as AT&T
(with 36,000 telecommuters), IBM and Motorola.
Even the federal government is hoping to follow this
[30] trend. Faith Wohl, former director of the Office of
Workplace Initiatives for the U.S. General Services
Administration, says Uncle Sam has a target of 60,000
telecommuters by the year 2005.

SPEAK UP. Ano 12, n. 154, p. 6-7, s.d. (Adaptado)

As for Robin Gagliardi, it is true to say that she