Brothers Ted and Doug Beck are the owners of Bevenco, Inc., the business their father started in the 1980s. The Steiner Ranch residents are self-employed and are part of 10 percent of the local population who also work from home offices.
By CASSIE MCKEE, Four Points News
Nationwide, 10 percent of the country’s 146 million workers are self-employed, according to Census data.
That percentage holds true in western Travis County, where 10.3 percent of residents say they are self-employed. Locally, many self-employed residents say they choose to work from home because of lower costs, more flexibility and convenience.
Steiner Ranch resident Richard Piotrowski is the co-founder of LogZilla Corporation, a software start-up company that has created a network event management application to help keep networks running smoothly.
Richard Piotrowski
The company operates virtually, with Piotrowski and the other three co-founders located in different U.S. cities. The company employs 12 others who are located throughout the U.S. and Europe. They communicate using an online collaboration program called Slack.
Self-employed Americans and the workers they hired accounted for 44 million jobs in 2014, or 30 percent of the national workforce, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of data the U.S. Census Bureau.