The 10 Best Jobs Working From Home
Working from home is the job dream situation for millions of workers. But it may surprise you to know there are literally hundreds of companies providing opportunities to do just that.
A few times ago, the website FlexJobs, which specializes in work-at-home jobs, published its annual list of the 100 Top Companies with Remote Jobs in 2019.
I have to practically write a book to cover the specific details of all 100 companies. But instead, I am going to focus on the ten best jobs from home, drawing from that list.
This will provide a sample of how the process works and what you can expect, as well as the benefits the arrangements offer.
Let us look at the top ten best jobs from home from the FlexJobs list in some detail.
1. Appen
Appen could be a technology services company based in Australia. However, they need offices within the US and therefore the UK additionally and supply opportunities in 130 countries around the world. the corporate works with a number of the most important companies within the world, including eight of the ten top technology companies. It supports quite 1 million contractors around the world.
Appen offers positions that are flexible and part-time and home-based. you will work either some hours every week or full time. Positions are available in translation, linguistics, engineering, marketing, financing, and sales. They even offer micro-tasks, which are smaller jobs which will be completed from the point about an hour.
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.
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 schedule.
4. Liveops
Scottsdale, Arizona-based Liveops refers to itself as ”The modern call centre that isn’t a call centre”. This should give you a strong indication of what they do, and how and where it takes place. The company doesn't have call centres 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 centre.
The company specializes in providing agents for travel and hospitality, telecom, roadside assistance, high tech, retail, finance, health care, and 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.
6. Amazon
Seattle based Amazon is one of the companies most commonly associated with jobs from home. The company employs well over 90,000 workers and is the largest online retailer in the world. You can access Amazon jobs from home on their Virtual Locations page.
Jobs are available mostly on a full-time basis. Current positions available include sales, advertising, account management, project/program/product management fulfilment and operations management, human resources, business and merchant development, operations, IT and support engineering, facilities, maintenance and real estate, and customer service.
7. 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 centres in 24 countries. TTEC provides work-from-home situations for consultants, customer service professionals, students, and veterans. 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 PJ's and bunny slippers.
8. 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. 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 centres, but cover a multitude of industries and job classifications.
9. 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 specialities 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.
10. United Healthcare
Health care providers are among the most common employers offering jobs from home. So it should be no surprise that United Healthcare is one of the top 10 companies offering work-at-home situations. Though health care typically involves hands-on work at a care facility, it also provides a surprising number of positions that can be handled remotely.
What makes even more surprising is the variety of positions available remote through the company. A search of their website using the term “work-at-home” turned up more than 1,000 positions. They include jobs in everything from customer service to clinical care. Nursing is naturally a common position and one that’s often available on a remote basis. They’re often needed for online or phone consulting, both to provide clinical information and to direct incoming callers to direct care services.
