For millions of workers, working from home is the ideal option. However, you might be surprised to learn that there are practically hundreds of firms that provide such chances.
I'm going to focus on the eight best jobs from home.
This will provide a sample of how the process works, what you can expect, as well as the benefits the arrangements offer.
Let's look at the top 8 best jobs from home from the FlexJobs list in some detail.
1. Appen
Appen is a technology services company based in Australia. However, they have offices in the US and the United Kingdom as well and provide opportunities in 130 countries around the world. The company works with some of the biggest companies in the world, including eight of the 10 top technology companies. It supports more than 1 million contractors around the world.
Appen offers positions that are flexible, part-time, and home-based. You can work either a few hours a week or full time. Positions are available in transcription, translation, linguistics, engineering, marketing, financing, and sales. They even offer micro-tasks, which are smaller jobs that can be completed from home in about an hour.
As you can see, not only do they have jobs from home available, but they also offer complete flexibility. You can choose your work, and your hours.
2. Lionbridge
Waltham, Massachusetts-based Lionbridge has positions available that are part-time, freelance, and remote. Positions are available in banking and finance, engineering, gaming, global marketing, autos, legal services, life sciences, machine intelligence, testing, and translation and localization.
Translation services seem to be particularly common among remote job offerings. Given the growth of global markets, there's a pronounced need to reach and interact with customers in hundreds of local languages. Lionbridge employs more than 100,000 language experts, working in 15 different industries.
But that's just one example. Overall, Lionbridge works with over a half million people in 26 countries, most of whom work remotely. Like Appen, it's likely you'll be able to find a position that provides the kind of flexibility you're looking for, whether that's full-time or part-time.
3. VIPKID
VIPKID is based in Beijing, China, but recently opened a US headquarters in San Francisco. The company focuses on providing English language instruction. Positions are available working remotely, either part-time or freelance. The website currently advertises pay at $22 per hour.
The service offers English as a second language to children in China, up to age eight. Teachers are English speakers who provide one-on-one courses based on the US Common Core State Standards. And as a teacher, you'll receive ongoing paid training as well as professional development opportunities. You'll be able to work from home and choose your own schedule.
Scottsdale, Arizona-based Liveops refers to itself as ”The modern call center that isn’t a call center”. This should give you a strong indication of what they do, and how and where it takes place. The company doesn't have call centers in the usual sense, but instead employs over 20,000 independent agents, working remotely. As such, it also describes itself as the world’s largest cloud contact center.
The company specializes in providing agents for travel and hospitality, telecom, roadside assistance, high tech, retail, finance, health care, insurance companies, and even the federal government. Work is available on both a full-time and part-time basis throughout the US.
5. Working Solutions
Working Solutions is based in Dallas, Texas, and has been around since 1996. They provide home-based customer service and sales agents. Positions are available for retail, telecommunications, finance, health care, travel, and energy. The company employees over 110,000 independent contractors from across the US.
You can work full-time, part-time, or freelance, and always remotely. Positions are currently available as customer service representatives, senior living customer care, seasonal customer service agents, and customer service representatives.
Working Solutions offers something increasingly unique in the employment universe. It educates its agents in a client’s business, at no cost to them, through Working Solutions University.
6. TTEC
Englewood, Colorado-based TTEC has been around since 1982 and is a business process outsourcing company. It provides services around the world and operates delivery centers in 24 countries. TTEC provides work-from-home situations for consultants, customer service professionals, students, and veterans. In fact, the company employs more than 20,000 work-at-home employees.
Work can involve helping customers by phone, live chat, or on social media. Naturally, you'll be required to have Internet access and a home phone. The website even indicates it's perfectly OK to work in your PJs and bunny slippers.
Current positions available include business sales representatives, customer service representatives, and bilingual customer service representatives. Positions are available in the US and Canada. You'll be provided with proprietary technology that enables you to securely access applications, so you will be able to support and assist customers with a variety of services and technical needs. You must be at least 17 years of age, have a high school diploma or general equivalency diploma, and have wire-connected Internet access.
7. Kelly Services
Founded way back in 1946, Kelly Services is one of the more well-established employment agencies in the country. It's also grown to be one of the largest agencies, with almost 500,000 workers using the service worldwide. In fact, the company now provides employment opportunities in nearly 30 countries.
In a real way, Kelly Services practically pioneered jobs from home, since it began primarily as a temporary job service. It now works regularly with some of the very largest employers in the country, providing staffing needs at all levels. They specialize in accounting and finance, administrative, automotive, engineering, information technology, life sciences, and call centers, but actually cover a multitude of industries and job classifications.
Kelly Services still handles temporary positions, as well as permanent ones. But they’ve adapted their business model to also include freelance, part-time, remote, and work-from-home arrangements.
8. Concentrix
Based in Freemont, California, and founded in 1983, Concentrix claims 90,000 employees worldwide. They work in a wide variety of industries, including health care, retail, transportation, e-commerce, insurance, technology, energy, and many others. Their specialties include marketing, analytics, technology, consulting, financial, and customer lifecycle management.
Like many companies that offer jobs from home, Concentrix also works globally, and across dozens of different languages. This naturally creates opportunities in transformative client services, particularly for those who are bilingual.
The company encourages work-from-home arrangements. They look for those who have solid communications skills and are able to provide strong customer service. Positions are available both full-time and part-time, as well as seasonal and temporary. They even provide shiftwork, which makes abundant sense in a global workplace.
