Golf, rent, and commutes: 7 impacts of working from home

The pandemic sharply accelerated trends of people working from home, leaving lasting impacts on how we work going forward. Stanford scholar Nicholas Bloom details how working from home is affecting the office, our homes, and more.

The massive surge in the number of people working from home may be the largest change to the U.S. economy since World War II, says Stanford scholar Nicholas Bloom .

And the shift to working from home, catalyzed by the pandemic, is here to stay, with further growth expected in the long run through improvements in technology.

Looking at data going back to 1965, when less than 1% of people worked from home, the number of people working from home had been rising continuously up to the pandemic, doubling roughly every 15 years, said Bloom, the William D. Eberle Professor in Economics in the School of Humanities and Sciences and professor, by courtesy, at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Before the pandemic, only around 5% of the typical U.S. workforce worked from home; at the pandemic’s onset, it skyrocketed to 61.5%. Currently, about 30% of employees work from home.

“In some ways, one of the biggest lasting legacies of the pandemic will be the shift to work from home,” said Bloom.

Bloom shared his research on working from home at the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute ’s “The Future of Work” Winter 2023 Colloquium, which focused on how the ways we work are changing.

DCI Director Richard Saller moderated the event , which featured scholars from Stanford and beyond discussing working arrangements and attitudes, challenges to office real estate, learned lessons about the power of proximity, and more.

Below are seven takeaways from Bloom’s discussion:

  • The employees. About 58% of people in the U.S. can’t work from home at all, and they are typically frontline workers with lower pay. Those who work entirely from home are primarily professionals, managers, and in higher-paying fields such as IT support, payroll, and call centers. The highest paid group includes the 30% of people working from home in a hybrid capacity, and these include professionals and managers.
  • The move. Almost 1 million people left city centers like New York and San Francisco during the pandemic. Those who used to go to the office five days a week are now willing to commute farther because they are only in the office a couple days a week, and they want larger homes to accommodate needs such as a home office. This has changed property markets substantially with rents and home values in the suburbs surging, Bloom said. Home values in city centers have risen but not by much.
  • The commute. Public transit journeys have plummeted and are currently down by a third compared to pre-pandemic levels. This sharp reduction is threatening the survival of mass transit, Bloom said. These are systems that have relatively fixed costs because the hardware and labor, which is largely unionized, are relatively hard to adjust. A lot of the revenues come from ticket sales, and these agencies are losing a lot of money.
  • The office. Offices are changing, with cubicles becoming less popular and meeting rooms more desirable. As some companies incorporate an organized hybrid schedule in which everyone comes in on certain days, they are redesigning spaces to support more meetings, presentations, trainings, lunches, and social time.
  • The startups. Startup rates are surging, up by 20% from pre-pandemic numbers. The reasons: working from home provides a cheaper way to start a new company by saving a lot on initial capital and rent. Also, people can more easily work on a startup on the side when their regular job offers the option to work from home.
  • The downtime. The number of people playing golf mid-week has more than doubled since 2019. People used to go before or after work, or on the weekends, but now the mid-day, mid-week golf game is becoming more common. The same is probably true for things like gyms, tennis courts, retail hairdressers, ski resorts, and anything else that consumers used to pack into the weekends.
  • The organization. More and more, firms are outsourcing or offshoring their information technology, human resources, and finance to access talent, save costs, and free up space. There has been a big increase in part-time employees, independent contractors, and outsourcing. “After seeing how well it worked with remote work at the beginning of the pandemic, companies may not see a need to have employees in the country,” Bloom said.

Interested in hearing more about the future of work? Stanford Continuing Studies will feature Bloom as he discusses “The Future of and Impact of Working from Home” on May 1 as part of the Stanford Monday University web seminar series .

Bloom is also co-director of the Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance, and a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research .

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Roughly three years after the COVID-19 pandemic upended U.S. workplaces, about a third (35%) of workers with jobs that can be done remotely are working from home all of the time, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. This is down from 43% in January 2022 and 55% in October 2020 – but up from only 7% before the pandemic.

Bar chart showing that the share of U.S. workers on a hybrid schedule grew from 35% in 2022 to 41% in 2023

While the share working from home all the time has fallen off somewhat as the pandemic has gone on, many workers have settled into hybrid work. The new survey finds that 41% of those with jobs that can be done remotely are working a hybrid schedule – that is, working from home some days and from the office, workplace or job site other days. This is up from 35% in January 2022.

Among hybrid workers who are not self-employed, most (63%) say their employer requires them to work in person a certain number of days per week or month. About six-in-ten hybrid workers (59%) say they work from home three or more days in a typical week, while 41% say they do so two days or fewer.

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Many hybrid workers would prefer to spend more time working from home than they currently do. About a third (34%) of those who are currently working from home most of the time say, if they had the choice, they’d like to work from home all the time. And among those who are working from home some of the time, half say they’d like to do so all (18%) or most (32%) of the time.

Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to study how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the workplace and specifically how workers with jobs that can be done from home have adapted their work schedules. To do this, we surveyed 5,775 U.S. adults who are working part time or full time and who have only one job or who have more than one job but consider one of them to be their primary job. All the workers who took part are members of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses.

Address-based sampling ensures that nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. Read more about the ATP’s methodology .

Here are the questions used for this analysis, along with responses, and the survey’s methodology .

The majority of U.S. workers overall (61%) do not have jobs that can be done from home. Workers with lower incomes and those without a four-year college degree are more likely to fall into this category. Among those who do have teleworkable jobs, Hispanic adults and those without a college degree are among the most likely to say they rarely or never work from home.

When looking at all employed adults ages 18 and older in the United States, Pew Research Center estimates that about 14% – or roughly 22 million people – are currently working from home all the time.

The advantages and disadvantages of working from home

A bar chart showing that 71% of teleworkers in the U.S. say working from home helps them balance their work and personal lives.

Workers who are not self-employed and who are teleworking at least some of the time see one clear advantage – and relatively few downsides – to working from home. By far the biggest perceived upside to working from home is the balance it provides: 71% of those who work from home all, most or some of the time say doing so helps them balance their work and personal lives. That includes 52% who say it helps them a lot with this.

About one-in-ten (12%) of those who are at least occasionally working from home say it hurts their ability to strike the right work-life balance, and 17% say it neither helps nor hurts. There is no significant gender difference in these views. However, parents with children younger than 18 are somewhat more likely than workers without children in that age range to say working from home is helpful in this regard (76% vs. 69%).

A majority of those who are working from home at least some of the time (56%) say this arrangement helps them get their work done and meet deadlines. Only 7% say working from home hurts their ability to do these things, and 37% say it neither helps nor hurts.

There are other aspects of work – some of them related to career advancement – where the impact of working from home seems minimal:

  • When asked how working from home affects whether they are given important assignments, 77% of those who are at least sometimes working from home say it neither helps nor hurts, while 14% say it helps and 9% say it hurts.
  • When it comes to their chances of getting ahead at work, 63% of teleworkers say working from home neither helps or hurts, while 18% say it helps and 19% say it hurts.
  • A narrow majority of teleworkers (54%) say working from home neither helps nor hurts with opportunities to be mentored at work. Among those who do see an impact, it’s perceived to be more negative than positive: 36% say working from home hurts opportunities to be mentored and 10% say it helps.

One aspect of work that many remote workers say working from home makes more challenging is connecting with co-workers: 53% of those who work from home at least some of the time say working from home hurts their ability to feel connected with co-workers, while 37% say it neither helps nor hurts. Only 10% say it helps them feel connected.

In spite of this, those who work from home all the time or occasionally are no less satisfied with their relationship with co-workers than those who never work from home. Roughly two-thirds of workers – whether they are working exclusively from home, follow a hybrid schedule or don’t work from home at all – say they are extremely or very satisfied with these relationships. In addition, among those with teleworkable jobs, employed adults who work from home all the time are about as likely as hybrid workers to say they have at least one close friend at work.

A bar chart showing that 41% of teleworkers in the U.S. who rarely or never work from home say this work arrangement helps them feel connected to their co-workers.

Feeling connected with co-workers is one area where many workers who rarely or never work from home see an advantage in their setup. About four-in-ten of these workers (41%) say the fact that they rarely or never work from home helps in how connected they feel to their co-workers. A similar share (42%) say it neither helps nor hurts, and 17% say it hurts.

At the same time, those who rarely or never work from home are less likely than teleworkers to say their current arrangement helps them achieve work-life balance. A third of these workers say the fact that they rarely or never work from home hurts their ability to balance their work and personal lives, while 40% say it neither helps nor hurts and 27% say it helps.

A bar chart showing that 79% of U.S. workers on a hybrid schedule say their boss trusts them to get work done at home.

When it comes to other aspects of work, many of those who rarely or never work from home say their arrangement is neither helpful nor hurtful. This is true when it comes to opportunities to be mentored (53% say this), their ability to get work done and meet deadlines (57%), their chances of getting ahead in their job (68%) and whether they are given important assignments (74%).

Most adults with teleworkable jobs who work from home at least some of the time (71%) say their manager or supervisor trusts them a great deal to get their work done when they’re doing so. Those who work from home all the time are the most likely to feel trusted: 79% of these workers say their manager trusts them a great deal, compared with 64% of hybrid workers.

Hybrid workers feel about as trusted when they’re not working from home: 68% say their manager or supervisor trusts them a great deal to get their work done when they’re not teleworking.

Note: Here are the questions used for this analysis, along with responses, and the survey’s methodology .

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15 Work From Home Jobs That Are Hiring Now

The number of remote opportunities continues to increase.

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If you’re looking for an opportunity to work remotely, there’s a good chance you can now find a job that fits your needs. According to a recent FlexJobs  study of job postings on their website, there was an 11 percent increase in the number of remote jobs in 2023 compared to the previous year.

Older adults could benefit directly from this boom in remote work. Their skills and experience give them the ability to operate effectively and independently outside the office. And the flexibility of working from home offers an appealing pathway toward eventual retirement.

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These 15 jobs are some of positions where the demand for remote workers is highest. Clicking on the job title will take you to a page on the AARP Job Board that shows postings for comparable positions. (Not all of these openings offer remote work opportunities.) Median pay data is from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

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1. Administrative Assistant

Who’s hiring:  H&R Block, Lockheed Martin, UpKeepl

Average pay:  $21.19 per hour

With many businesses switching to remote work during the pandemic, “virtual assistants” have seen an explosion in demand recently. In addition to the positions listed on the AARP Job Board, you can also find gig work as an administrative assistant through sites such as Upwork and FlexJobs, though some of these portals charge fees to use their services.

2.  Consultant

Who’s hiring:  Baylor Scott White Health, United Health Group

Average median pay:  $45.81 per hour

In addition to offering remote work opportunities, consulting also can serve as a convenient way to transition into retirement. In addition to the positions posted on the AARP Job Board, you also might consider asking your current or former employers whether they might be interested is hiring you as a consultant for various projects.

3.  Customer Service Representative

Who’s hiring:  Dish Network, FedPoint, Love's Travel Stops & Country Store

Median pay:  $18.16 per hour

If you’ve ever called a company for help with a product or service you purchased, then you understand what these jobs involve. You’ll need good people skills to help customers get the solutions they’re seeking. And the hours often are quite flexible to enable phone lines to be staffed across different time zones.

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4.  Data Entry Clerk

Who’s hiring:  McKees Rock PA, TowardJobs Staffing, xBrain

Average pay:  $18.26 per hour

This job is a natural fit for remote work because the responsibilities mostly involve typing information from various documents into a company’s computer system. Accuracy and an eye for detail are essential to doing well in this field.

5.  Digital Marketing Specialist

Who’s hiring:  Sodexo, United Health Group

Average pay:  $32.80 per hour

The internet is how many businesses find new customers now, and these specialists are the experts who make those connections happen. Job responsibilities include creating internet advertisements, direct emails, newsletters and other digital tools to keep clients interested in what the company has to offer.

6.  Occupational Therapist

Who’s hiring:  Baylor Scott White Health, Lehigh Valley Health Network Lehigh

Average pay : $44.80 per hour

When people who are recovering from injuries or managing disabilities need assistance learning to perform daily physical activities, occupational therapists lend a helping hand. Many types of health care moved online during the pandemic, and so did the work-from-home opportunities for occupational therapists. Many of these jobs do require state licenses.

7.  Proofreader

Who’s hiring:  Sodexo, TalentBurst

Average pay:  $21.83 per hour

If you’re the type of person who notices spelling errors when you’re reading books or articles, this role could be a good fit for you. For example, Abuse Refuge Org, a nonprofit that aids survivors of physical, sexual, spousal, and other types of abuse, is seeking a proofreader who can make sure that their articles and social media posts include accurate information and are easy to read.

8.  Registered Nurse

Who’s hiring:  Central California Alliance for Health, McLaren Integrated HMO Group, VITAS Healthcare

Average pay:  $39.05 per hour

Demand is almost always high for these professionals, with the BLS projecting there will be 194,500 jobs created in this field each year. And, in the era of telehealth, many of these nurses will be able to work from home.

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9.  Sales Representative

Who’s hiring:  Advance Auto Parts, AT&T, United Health Group

Average pay:  $32.57 per hour

Why be a traveling salesperson when you often could do the job just as well through Zoom or Webex? The essential skills and experience remain the same: building a client base, convincing them of the product’s value, providing customer service.

10.  Social Media Specialist

Who’s hiring:  Marriott International, Petco, Teleperformance

Average pay:  $27.29 per hour

Here’s an opportunity to turn your finesse with making TikTok videos and viral tweets into a successful career. By designing a variety of social media posts, these specialists help businesses build their online personalities.

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11. Software Developer

Who’s hiring:  General Dynamics, Insight Global, Motion Recruitment

Average pay:  $59.71 per hour

The long-term prospects for this career are promising, with the BLS projecting that demand for these workers will increase by 25 percent over the next eight years. Wages are also high: These information technology experts earn the highest hourly pay on this list.

12.  Speech Pathologist

Who’s hiring:  SLP-tele, Enablr Therapy, Connected Teletherapy

pay:  $40.45 per hour

Speech pathologists help people with communication disorders understand why they have difficulty pronouncing certain words. Once the problem has been identified, the pathologist then helps those individuals learn how to speak more clearly. Doing the job from home opens opportunities to work with clients in different parts of the nation, but you may need to be licensed in the states where you and your clients live.

13.  Technical Writer

Who’s hiring:  First American Financial Corporation, Insight Global, Latitude

Average pay:  $38.44 per hour

If you have a talent for understanding how technologies work and explaining that clearly, technical writing is a field with many job opportunities. For example, Insight Global—an information technology contractor with with government clients—is looking for writers to help create proposals for federal projects.

Who’s hiring:  Preply, Tutor Me Education, Vivvi Early Learning Me Educatio

pay:  $17.63 per hour

Tutoring is one career that translates well to the video-conferencing era. Depending on your area of professional or personal expertise, there could be a remote job in this field that’s a perfect match. Companies are seeking tutors in such fields as English, foreign languages, and graphic design.

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15.   Web Developer

Who’s hiring:  ACL Digital, Nintendo of America, Villanova University

Average pay:  $38.81 per hour$8.81

This is another field where the BLS projects the demand for workers will increase (17,900 additional jobs per year). The work can be challenging because internet technologies are upgraded frequently. For that reason, it’s handy to have a mix of strong technical skills and creative problem-solving ability.

Editor's Note: A previous version of this article was published on April 21, 2021. It has been replaced with a newer version containing updated information.

Kenneth Terrell covers employment, age discrimination, work and jobs, careers, and the federal government for AARP. He previously worked for the Education Writers Association and  U.S. News & World Report , where he reported on government and politics, business, education, science and technology, and lifestyle news.

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131 Legit Companies that Hire Home Workers in 2023

If you dream of working from home, this detailed round-up of 131 companies that hire home workers is a great place to start looking for opportunities.

An accurate and up-to-date list of work from home companies is surprisingly hard to find online; While there are plenty of lists out there, most of the ones we looked at included incorrect information, dead links and scammy opportunities.

We set out to create something better. We did the same compiling the latest home working statistics, which you can check out here .

If you’re in a hurry and want some of the searching work done for you, take a look at FlexJobs .  We have a full review of that here. Another alternative is Virtual Vocations ( see review ).

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On this list you’ll find lots of legitimate work from home jobs hiring now. It’s a long list so we’ve divided them into categories to make it easier to search. divided into categories.

Plenty of the companies listed here have work from home positions so are ideal for people who want the flexibility of working from home with the security of a conventional job . There are also some opportunities that could work for freelancers, or as part of a portfolio career. 

While some jobs are US-only (reflecting While some remote jobs hiring are US-only (reflecting HomeWorkingClub’s largest audience), we’ve done our best to include lots of global opportunities for work from home jobs hiring now.

For every company, we’ve provided a link to where they usually mention their home-based job opportunities. Please note that things do change and remote work from home jobs come and go, so it’s often worth checking back at a later date if you don’t find anything from a specific company when you look.

It’s also worth searching remote job boards for phrases like “remote,” “home based” and “home working,” as this can often uncover jobs that are hiring that could be hidden in plain sight.

It’s essential to do your own due diligence on any company you apply to as scams are out there. We’ve done our best to only include legit companies on this list but you should still do your own research. You can find some information on avoiding scams here .

Many companies have mixed reports from ex staff-members if you look at reviews on Glassdoor and similar websites. As with any online reviews, it’s best to look at the balance of opinions and then form your own! If you strongly feel a company shouldn’t be on this list, please feel free to contact us. 

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Many of the companies that hire home workers are looking for techies. A tech firm is obviously going to be looking for the cream of the crop when it comes to tech hires but it is important to remember that these firms also need copywriters, managers, acoountants, and customer service reps. It’s also worth noting that tech firms are some of the best work from home companies because of their innovative, forward-thinking cultures.

A website and content creation platform based in Seattle, but with jobs hiring work from home people all over the world.

Remote employees get the same benefits as any other employees, with a 401k and insurance. 10up offers a wide range of job roles including those for developers, project managers and strategists.

Where: Global, US.

Aimed at company HR leaders, 15Five is a human-centred performance management platform. Its products include tools for management training, employee feedback surveys, performance reviews and more.  

The company has a diverse, hybrid culture that supports remote-first workplaces and office hubs. They encourage annual get-togethers for their team and offer health, retirement and vacation benefits. 

15Five often has jobs that are hiring in their Design, Engineering, People and Culture and Sales departments. 

Where: Global.

This American company’s products are known across the globe. Part of the reason for this is reflected in the fact that they have three times as many remote sales positions as they do tech job openings. Still, if you are looking to work with a tech company you will find some good opportunities for work from home positions here.

AdviseTech Inc

This IT support firm is based in Pasadena, California. They advertise both for tech roles and for part time telemarketers to work just two to six hours per week. They specifically suggest that the latter job is suitable for retired people or college students. (If you are a college student, you’ll find more job options here ).

Where: US only.

Aha! is a SaaS (Software as a Service) that describes itself as the world’s #1 roadmap software, which aims to help people build lovable products and be happy doing it. 

They’re self-funded and entirely remote. Aha! employs people in the Customer Success, Engineering, Marketing, People and Product Success categories. 

The company includes some exciting benefits for its employees, including well-being, education, generous salaries, and profit-sharing.

Where: North and South America, the UK, Ireland, South Africa and Australia.

The well-known online retailer hires home based virtual employees in a huge variety of roles including web services, HR and sales. There are jobs at all levels including senior management roles. When we looked, most roles were in the US and UK, with several in Italy.

Positions available depend on your experience and skills. Some positions are seasonal roles and come up during the company’s busier periods only. So, if you’re looking for jobs that are hiring now, then Amazon is a good place to start.

You can find more on Amazon’s remote working practices on FlexJobs , or in our article on Amazon work from home jobs .

Apple employ students ( more online jobs for students here ) but there are positions available for others too as part of the “At Home Advisor” program. You need at least 2 years’ experience of technical troubleshooting – this can be either by phone or face to face.

You need an excellent knowledge of all Apple products, and must agree to work at least 20 hours per week.

You’ll find more information on Apple’s work from home jobs here. 

Arkency is a consulting agency that hires quality coders who know the importance of testing until it’s perfect and can also communicate effectively with customers and the company team. 

The agency works on the three pillars of Anarchy, Async and Remote, which means:

  • Flexible working hours
  • Working from anywhere
  • Communication is not instant – but it is effective 

If you’re a coder, the first step to working with Arkency is to contact their recruitment team and pitch your case.

Atlassian uses technology to empower team work and is perhaps better known for its products such as Trello. Although this company has fewer remote jobs hiring than you might expect given that its products help support remote teams, it is still worth a look.

This Identity-as-a-Service company secures and authenticates millions of logins on a daily basis. 

This safety-focused company has plenty of jobs hiring from home although, ironically, at the time of writing there were none for IT. 

You may not be familiar with Automattic, but there is a good chance you’ve heard of WordPress.com and Tumblr, the two most famous brands in its portfolio.

Although the company is  looking for people to fill a wide range of vacancies, everybody spends their first couple of weeks working on support for WordPress. This is designed to give the whole company a feel for the main product. All employees continue to spend a further two weeks per year doing this.

Where: Global, Fully Remote.

Project management tool Basecamp may well be familiar to anyone who has worked on tech projects over the last few years.

Based in Chicago but committed to a “remote first” hiring strategy, jobs for homeworkers at Basecamp come with attractive benefits packages. While this company has plenty of different jobs, openings do seem to fill rather quickly. But don’t worry. If there are no at home jobs hiring now you can sign up to be notified about future job openings.

BestSelf is a small, 100% remote lifestyle brand that sells products designed to help people dream big and achieve more while still enjoying the process. Products include Journals and Planners, Discovery Decks and Action Pads (e.g. habit roadmap.) 

Being a small company, they don’t always have work from home positions available. But if you want to work in an innovative, diverse and global team, then it’s worth keeping an eye on their careers page.

BuddyBoss is a platform that integrates with WordPress websites to allow businesses to create and host courses, memberships, intranets, eLearning and online communities.

With 70+ multicultural workers in 10 different countries and time zones, BuddyBoss is advertising jobs on their tech, marketing, and customer service teams at the time of writing.

If you are looking for cutting edge tech work from home then this might just be the company for you. CleverTech avoids normal, off-the-shelf solutions in their products and also in the way they work. Since they don’t enforce a work location, hours or even timesheets they are one of the ideal companies hiring work from home techies.

If this sound like the right fit for you they have plenty of opportunities for engineers and developers.

CrowdStrike

Cybersecurity is increasingly important as more and more people work from their homes. It is hardly surprising therefore that this leading cybersecurity firm has hundreds of remote job openings. Intelligence, IT, and engineering options aren’t the only ones though. Even tech firms need sales, HR, and professional development staff.

DataStax offers data management products and cloud services. While it does not have as many remote work from home jobs as some other tech companies, DataStax does have some nice perks for its employees, especially those in the US.

At the time of writing most job openings were for technical support interns and account executives.

Where: US, Canada, UK, France, Germany.

Doist aims to be a company and culture that transcends boundaries and provides solutions for long term success and happiness. Their products include Todoist and Twist, which are both productivity apps. 

Employment categories include Business Development, Design, Engineering, Translations, Customer Support, Marketing, Finance, People Operations and Product. The company isn’t always hiring, but they provide a chance for prospective employees to sign up for future job opening updates.

Help Scout offers companies a complete customer support package including live chat, email and help centre. It’s been remote-first for ten years and has team members in 80+ cities worldwide. 

You’ll get plenty of benefits if you land a job at Help Scout. These include stock options, flexible time off, international travel to their semi-annual retreats, health and retirement and a competitive salary that’s optimised for fairness. 

The company currently has a seven-step hiring process that includes video and logistic chats, a take-home project and references.

At the time of writing, open roles included Mid-Market Account Executive, Brand Designer, Product Support Analyst, Senior Java Engineer, Product Designer, and more.

Dell hires remote workers globally in all kinds of job roles. There’s a vast range of opportunities available at all levels. So, if you’re looking for work from home jobs, hiring immediately, Dell could be a good place to start.

Roles include technical support and system architect positions, and non technical jobs for sales reps and account managers. Strong experience is required and the ability to speak more than one language is beneficial for some roles.

Elevate Labs

Elevate is an extremely popular brain training app, previously one of Apple’s “apps of the year.”

The company is based in San Francisco, but has remote roles for Engineers, Data Analysts and Spanish proof readers

Where: North and South America.

This tech company is fully remote so all its job openings are apt for home workers, but they are rather demanding in terms of hiring the best. They claim that their stronger applicants have 5 years of experience so this is definitely not for newbies.

If you do have the necessary experience to compete against other applicants then there are quite a range of opportunities available.

Another name familiar to software developers. Unsurprisingly the company seeks designers, engineers and UX specialists.

There are also roles in the wider company in sales, legal and finance. This is a remote-first company, and everyone works “asynchronously”, during the hours that suit them best.

KLIM Technologies

KLIM is a small, but rapidly growing, consumer electronics company. Despite its size, it is committed to fully remote work and is willing to hire the best workers no matter where they are located.

In addition to hiring home workers for regular full-time positions, KLIM offers paid internships allowing you to gain more experience in a particular field. So, you might be interested if you’re searching for “at home jobs near me,” and want to gain experience in the consumer electronics field.

This telecoms company employs home workers in the US for both technical customer support and sales team roles. Some of the jobs are hard to find, so use the words “works from home” in your job search, and consider signing up to email alerts so you know when they become available.

MailerLite is one of the fastest-growing email newsletter companies around. Right from the start, they embraced the remote culture. Currently, they have half their team working at their headquarters in Vilnius and the other half working from home around the world. Their benefits include a budget for home-office setup, vacation and company-paid retreats. 

While they don’t always have jobs available, MailerLite encourages prospective team members to apply for future opportunities. However, don’t send them a standard CV if you want to stand a chance. Instead, MailerLite asks you to sign up for a free account and send them a newsletter. (You’ll find full details on their jobs application page .)

Memberful is an e-commerce app that offers users everything they need to run a membership program. 

Everyone at Memberful is free to live and work wherever they choose. The company says its internal process is built around remote communication, deep work and treating others as you’d like to be treated.

What started out as company focused on PC gaming is now using computing expertise to impact areas as disparate as healthcare and blockbuster movies. It promises challenging opportunities to impact multiple industries.

If you think you have the talent and expertise to rise to the challenge then you will find a large number of work from home opportunities in engineering and other fields.

On the Go Systems

On the Go Systems is a software company that welcomes home workers from all over the world into its workforce. Its products include WPML – a translation plugin for multi-language sites, and Toolset, a suite of plugins, which allow website developers to build functionality in a modular way. 

Jobs at On the Go Systems include developers, software engineers, and WordPress Technical Supporters. They expect several years of experience, commitment, excellent English and outstanding problem-solving skills from their employees.

Pinterest is a visual search engine where users create boards where they Pin and share images and ideas on a vast range of topics. Used by individuals and businesses to share ideas and promote their work.

The company has remote jobs and contract roles in most of their departments including engineering, admin, IT, marketing, sales, design, recruiting, measurements and insights and more. 

Their careers page says they offer flexible vacation times, comprehensive health benefits, retirement plans, personal and professional development resources, discounts and perks.

Where: Global

This award-winning technology firm may have more than 100 offices but they are also serious about providing remote options. They have hundreds of remote opportunities scattered across the globe.

In order to keep Red Hatters happy and productive, the company offers  flexible scheduling, opportunities for career growth, health and well-being initiatives, and even associate recognition programs.

“The Front Page of The Internet” is based in San Francisco but does offer remote roles. While some departments seem to have limited remote roles, the company does seem to hire plenty of homeworkers for engineering, finance, marketing, legal, and HR.

SalesForce specializes in customer relationship management and has been on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies several times. Despite having over 130 offices scattered across the globe, the company was hiring for over 1,200 remote positions at the time of writing, making it a viable choice if you’re looking for online jobs hiring now.

While the bulk of the remote positions involved sales, there are plenty of openings in engineering, recruiting and project management. The company also has remote positions for interns.

As the market leader in enterprise application software SAP has a lot of great opportunities for those looking for tech jobs. You will have to do some searching to find the work from home roles but it is worth it to find a job at a top company which offers competitive salaries and plenty of perks.

Shutterstock

Perhaps a site you’ve become familiar with when searching for pictures, Shutterstock sometimes employs freelancers to review and edit images. You can manage your own working hours but may be expected to include weekend working time. These and a few full-time opportunities are available worldwide.

Shutterstock is also worth a look for selling photos if you’re a skilled photographer. Read this article for more information. 

Slack is another company that has benefitted from the increase in remote work. They offer a variety of work options to their employees including working from home a few days a week and fully remote positions.

A lot of the opportunities are in design and engineering but Slack seems to have remote work from home jobs available in all their departments.

Support.com

This company provides basic computer support and troubleshooting services. The majority of roles are explaining technical instructions to inexperienced computer users, so a high level of empathy is required, along with strong verbal communication skills.

Like many other companies, Support.com has decided to embrace remote work and so many new opportunities for home workers are now available.

Where: US, Mexico, India, and the Phillipines.

This 100% remote working company sells a solution that helps US businesses manage sales tax. The company advertises positions in various departments ranging from marketing to programming and development.

TaxJar is a progressive “remote first” firm, and allows workers to work from anywhere with a suitable WiFi connection.

Toggl is a time tracking and reporting service accessible over web, mobile and desktop applications. As well as openings for developers and designers, there are also editorial roles here, as well as social media marketing jobs. Based in Tallinn, Estonia, Toggl recruits remote workers all over the world.

Twitter is an online social networking site increasingly used by businesses and thought leaders around the world to communicate their ideas and promote their services. Tweets are short messages (max 280 characters) which makes them easy to scan and consume, but hard to write well.  

Twitter hires “Tweeps” in Remote, in-office and combined positions. They offer the usual benefits plus productivity allowances (to cover pens, printers etc) and provide laptops and ergonomic keyboards.

Examples of remote jobs at the time of writing include Machine Learning Engineers, Software engineers, Product managers, Designers, Backend Engineers, Business Development and more.

An API and service management platform with clients all over the world, Tyk has offices in London, Atlanta and Singapore.

With a remote first policy, Tyk offers flexible working hours, unlimited holiday and a dynamic, supportive culture.

Focused on helping organizations deliver better digital experiences to their customers, this subsidiary of Dell has received numerous awards for its employment practices. 

One of the interesting aspects of working here is that they have job rotation programs to help reignite and broaden your work experience.

If you tend to think holistically and are up for a challenge then this could be the place for you.

WP Buffs, as the name suggests, specializes in solving a variety of WordPress issues. Although it is a fairly small company it has a number of roles which are open to anyone with the right attitude and experience, regardless of location.

A company that creates workflow and automation software, Zapier is fully remote and global in its hiring outlook.

The company offers technical and business support roles. There’s a competitive benefits package and a genuine remote first culture.

Zoom meetings have become a ubiquitous part of working from home for most people. But what if you actually worked for Zoom? Zoom hires home workers for positions as varied as engineering, security, finance, customer service, and sales.

Where: US, UK, India, Singapore, Netherlands, Germany, and France.

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NOTE : With many people looking for remote opportunities, jobs that are hiring at call centers with well-known companies are being snapped up quickly. It’s important to check back frequently as these are companies that normally recruit home workers regularly.

This UK breakdown company employs remote workers. With phone lines open 24/7 teleworking opportunities arise frequently. You are expected to attend a 12-week training programme before starting to work from home.

You need a designated work space and an excellent broadband connection.

While you work independently, you have a monthly one-to-one session with a manager and can ask for support if necessary 24 hours a day. The company provides all the equipment you need including a computer.

Where: UK only.

Asurion is a leading provider of device insurance and warranty services for cellphones, consumer electronics and home appliances. The company takes on remote workers in several customer services positions.

Many of these opportunities are for bilingual workers who speak English and French. You will need excellent communication skills and at least one year’s customer services experience.

Hours are negotiable but can include evening and weekend working.

Where: US and Canada.

As well providing sales and CRM solutions for clients, Close also recruits its own sales people, alongside  development and engineering staff. All of the workforce is able to work remotely.

If you are in the US there is an excellent medical policy and 401K, as well as sabbaticals after five years.

This business process services company, an offshoot of Xerox, offers a range of opportunities in data handling and customer care.

To find their remote roles, a good start is to search for “work from home.” These jobs mainly involve answering incoming calls. You must have a proven record for problem solving and the ability to multitask.

Direct Interactions

This company employs remote workers across most areas of the US. However, note that you can work here as an employee or an independent agent. Contractors don’t qualify for insurance and benefits.

Most jobs involve making and receiving customer calls from your home. Direct Interactions looks for workers with good communication skills and a strong work ethic who can work quickly to troubleshoot and resolve problems.

Most jobs are part time and the pay is around $10-12 per hour. You must be over 18 and have a High School Diploma.

Where: US – most states.

Enterprise Car Hire

Enterprise employs virtual call center reservation agents, taking incoming calls for customer enquiries and reservations. The jobs cover long hours so could likely fit around other commitments.

Some jobs are likely to require you to assist with requests for breakdown assistance. Applicants are required to provide their own equipment and there are restrictions on what is accepted in terms of tech and connectivity.

You can expect an hourly rate of around $13, and there are commissions and bonuses for sales agents.

Where: Many US states, Canada, UK, Germany, Ireland, France and Spain.

Most people are familiar with HSN, or the Home Shopping Network as it was formerly known. Well, all those customers buying from them need support. This means that HSN hires a lot of work at home customer order specialists.

If you are willing to work shifts then you should easily be able to find a position. Pay starts at $12.85 per hour and thereare automatic increases every 6 months.

Liveops offers numerous options for home-based virtual call center agents. There are openings in a number of areas including insurance, health care and tech support.

You will need a quiet work area, a wired phone and fast internet. You must be a legal US citizen and are required to undergo a background and credit check. You can schedule your hours around other commitments.

LiveWorld employs agents working in a range of customer services positions. These are not telephone positions – they are primarily online chat-based. The company provides services in a number of languages. You are required to take language tests and provide writing samples.

You must be a fluent English speaker with experience in online moderation, as well as call centre experience. A college degree is preferred. You need high-speed internet access and a strong knowledge of social media platforms.

There are also some remote engineering positions available to those in the US.

KellyConnect

KellyConnect hires home workers to provide customer service over the phone and via online tools. Although the work might not seem to be very different from other customer service jobs it is worth noting that KellyConnect frequently appears on lists of the top companies with work from home positions.

The company even pays you for your training at a not too shabby rate of $13.50.

Sitel Group

Sitel’s customer service jobs involve dealing with calls relating to a wide range of sectors including health care, communications and tech support. Tasks include managing billing inquiries, dealing with customer accounts and processing orders.

You will need previous customer services and sales experience, and excellent verbal and listening skills. This work can be fast-paced.

Full and part-time employment is available, and you receive full training at home. There are also some remote management positions available in the US.

Where: Primarily US.

Not all customer experience companies that are hiring right now are expressly looking for customer service roles.

There are plenty of tech and recruitments jobs on offer and the support roles often have interesting twists, such as ESPN Fantasy Sports Support Specialist.

TTEC is another global company that works to improve the interactions customers have with major brands. Among the current 347 work from home job listings there are a wide array of opportunities aside from Customer Service Representative.

This residential moving and self-storage company hires remote workers in various customer service and sales roles, in departments such as reservations and roadside assistance. You need to complete a training course on site before you start working at home.

You will need a quiet work space, fast internet connection and strong knowledge of the Windows operating systems.

Experience is preferred but not always essential. Many roles are part time and involve unsocial hours. We noticed some seasonal opportunities for jobs hiring from home too.

Working Solutions

Working Solutions was one of the first virtual workforce companies in history. They have thousands of independent agents from a vast array of backgrounds, and a diverse range of clients who outsource work to them.

You must take an assessment when you apply, which includes written and verbal questions and an aptitude test. You can schedule your own hours to work around other commitments. Full and part time roles are available.

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The majority of healthcare companies that hire home workers are only looking for staff within the country in which they operate. So, if you do not find anything in the list below, we suggest you check the websites of the largest healthcare companies in your country.

Anthem employs over 35,000 professionals across the US. The company offers medical and health roles, as you would expect, but also has many openings in sales, business support, data analysis, and customer service.

You should search for “remote” jobs on the site in order to find those for which they hire home workers.

This leading health care benefits company employs remote workers in a number of roles. Medical advisors must hold the appropriate qualifications and have clinical experience. Jobs are available at all levels and include senior management positions.

Training takes place at company offices. Some roles, despite being home based, require applicants to live within a certain distance of a specific office.

There are additional benefits available alongside basic salary, dependent on the role applied for.

Dict8 is a leading provider of UK-based medical transcription and digital dictation services. Their systems are used by a large number of healthcare trusts, GP surgeries, private practices and other health-based organisations around the UK.

Dict8 employs transcribers with significant experience of working as full-time medical audio secretaries within the NHS. You will require a reference from either a consultant or previous line manager.

You are paid per line of transcription on a monthly basis.

This medical transcription company hires contractors with at least two years previous experience in a hospital or clinical environment (hence us listing this opportunity under healthcare, rather than transcription!)

Hours are flexible, and full and part-time roles are available. On application you must complete an online qualification form and provide your current resume . You will also have to take typing and medical terminology tests.

There is 24-hour support available and all the software you need is provided.

HealthCatalyst

HealthCatalyst aims to transform healthcare through data.

Some experience of working in the health sector is useful, but by no means necessary for all roles. A significant number of the remote openings are for analytics engineers.

The company has received a lot of attention recently for its emphasis on work-life balance, corporate culture, and the benefits it offers employees.

Around 47% of the workforce of this Kentucky based healthcare company work remotely. The career areas include clinical jobs, customer care, tech and analytics, and corporate positions. This means that there are plenty of opportunities even if you do not have much experience in the health sector.

The company even has a number of programs for undergraduate and graduate students.

iMedX work in the sector of health information and clinical documentation in the US. The company offers flexible part-time, full-time and weekend working patterns. Their remote working opportunities allow for virtual attendance at meetings too, so no trips to offices are required.

At the time of writing the work from home jobs hiring now are coding related but we’ve seen medical language specialists and registrar positions come up recently too.

Where: US Only.

Parexel offers biopharmaceutical services to clients in more than 100 countries. The majority of home based roles are therefore in research, science, medical and health fields.

If you have experience in these fields then Parexel is a good place to start your search for a work from home opportunity. The company looks for ingenuity and technical expertise and there are lots of roles available. While the majority are in the US there’s no shortage of opportunities in other countries, as this is one of the few health ‘work from home’ companies that are hiring around the world.

United Health Group

In this world-leading health and wellbeing company, over 25% of the workforce work from home. The company looks for driven employees with excellent time management skills who are able to prioritize tasks and work to strict deadlines.

Interested parties usually take part in a recruitment chat as the first stage of the process before applying. You will need excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Proven experience is required, along with at least a bachelor’s degree.

Where: Global but the majority of telecommuting opportunities are in the US.

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Backpacker Travel

Backpacker Travel is a website and community that focuses on helping adventurous travellers find ways to journey to far-flung places worldwide. 

The remote-first site offers backpackers and travellers the chance to write and work while they travel. Most positions are flexible and freelance and so don’t share employee benefits. 

Their positions include a variety of roles, from sales and marketing to editorial and research. You’ll need to be fluent in English and have access to a computer and a high-speed internet connection. 

One of the largest cruise specialist companies in the world, this company offers home working opportunities for salespeople, support agents and customer service agents.

The company looks specifically for people with existing cruise industry experience. A second language is an advantage. Pays a basic salary plus commission. Applicants must complete a back-ground check.

Note that these jobs specifically mention selling insurance, so appear to lean more towards sales than customer service. They have jobs that are hiring now for Cruise Sales Agents

Where: US but some states are excluded.

Dollar Flight Club

This  “travel hacking” company has a remote team, based all over the world, that finds cheap flights for its members.

Ideal for those who are looking for good travel benefits along with remote working.

Hertz often recruits for home-based positions. We’ve seen roles for sales reps and reservation agents in the past, but at the time of writing a search yielded some supervisory and management roles as well.

Hertz is a huge company, so it’s well worth checking their listings regularly.

Where: US, Canada, UK.

Hilton Hotels

This worldwide hotel chain hires home-workers as reservation agents and customer care co-ordinators. You need previous sales experience and at least a high school diploma. Jobs are available in a number of US states.

The job and associated training is all done remotely. Salary and other incentives are the same as for onsite employees. Most of the equipment you need is provided, though you will need a landline and a quiet workspace.

Although there were no homeworking openings available at the time of writing, the Hilton Reservations and Customer Care Work From Home program is a clear indication of their dedication to hiring home workers during normal times.

Where: US – some states only.

This airline offers remote working opportunities for customer support. You need to attend training on-site at a base in Utah or Orlando before beginning to work from home.

You need to have at least two years’ experience of customer service. Pay is at entry level but there are additional bonuses and travel discounts on offer too.

Where: US (must be able to travel for training).

Thanks to COVID restrictions forcing education to go remote this is an area that is booming. The number of  legitimate work from home jobs hiring now seems to grow constantly. We have included some top picks in this list but you will quickly find that a little digging unveils plenty more opportunities.

The growth of online learning has seen Articulate go from strength to strength, allowing people to create their own courses and offering a huge array of subjects to people all over the world.

There are plenty of remote work from home jobs available including areas such as sales, product, design and software. 

Where: US, UK and the Philippines.

Connections Academy

This virtual education company hires education professionals in both teaching and non-teaching roles. They are particularly keen to hire those with specialist skills in specific subjects, as well as counsellors and administrators.

You should search for “home-based” jobs. Requirements for teaching can vary from state to state and you may require specific additional qualifications or licenses.

Where: US – certain states only.

This huge education training services provider offers opportunities for teachers and instructors, and also sometimes advertises remote jobs in marketing and customer services.

Strong written and oral communication skills are required for all positions. You will need at least a bachelor’s degree and to have a proven track record of working to deadlines.

For a more detailed profile of Kaplan, click here .

Mango Languages

Mango is a Language Learning app that mixes listening, speaking, reading and writing activities to help people learn more than 70 languages. 

They offer jobs for both company employees and contractors to keep the app working smoothly. These include language content writers, product development, and marketing roles.

Stride, until recently known as K12, offers teaching opportunities via a digital learning platform. It supports over one million home-educated students.

Stride often has vacancies both for teaching staff and support workers. Teaching staff must have the relevant teacher certification (often state-specific), at least three years’ experience, and strong written and verbal communication skills.

Study.com  

Study.com’s mission is to make education accessible and affordable to millions of global students, because information is the “ultimate equalizer and… the key to upward mobility.” 

In 2021, Study.com was ranked 10th on the Virtual Vocations’ Top 25 Best Partners for Remote Work list and offers flexible hours, reliable payments twice a month, and support from its in-house team. 

Study.com regularly hires teachers, tutors, writers, reviewers and editors and offers a mix of remote and freelance contract work for experts in many education areas including accounting, writing, business, science, math, literature and more.

Teaching roles require a related bachelor’s degree (or higher) and teaching experience. Writers, reviewers and editors – require a degree or equivalent work experience and you should be able to demonstrate your skills and experience in writing or working with online content.

This leading international learning company based in London offers opportunities throughout the world in a wide range of educational services. They offer flexible working in a wide range of educational fields and several jobs are entirely or mostly home-based. Many roles require a degree and classroom experience.

Aside from the educational positions you can also find remote work in fields such as sales, customer service, and engineering.

Where: Global but the bulk of the home working positions are in the US.

Rosetta Stone

This educational software and online education company hires native speakers to facilitate language classes for students of all levels. You must have internet access from your home PC, and be available to work at least 10 hours per week.

Hours are flexible and may include evenings and weekends. You can expect to earn around $15 per hour.

Created to provide expert assistance to students in colleges, universities and K-12 schools, Tutor.com offers the opportunity to work from home by tutoring in one of the more than 200 academic subjects and test preparation areas they provide.

This might seem like a simple job to apply for but the company is very serious about the quality of its tutors and so only 1.5% of all applicants make it through the rigorous testing process to become qualified as tutors.

This English language-learning services company offers ESL services to children in China, providing a high-quality English education for children up to eight years of age. The company hires online ESL teachers that can work remotely from anywhere.

Working hours are flexible and hourly rates are from $14-22. You need at least a Bachelors’ Degree, and application is through the VIKID website. We have a full review of VIPKid here .

Note that unlike some companies that hire home workers on this list, VIPKid doesn’t employ staff directly – teachers work for them on a freelance basis. There are more freelance teaching opportunities here. 

Lady doing secretarial jobs

Secretarial staff are a necessity at almost every company but the companies that hire home workers primarily for secretarial work are usually selling their services to other companies. This can make the work both more interesting and more complicated. However, it’s worth noting that most of the work from home companies hiring secretaries only work in North America.

This US company offers working from home opportunities for virtual assistants, bookkeepers, and social media strategists. Note that many of these are contractor positions so you would be working for yourself and responsible for your own benefits and insurance.

Pay is on the lower end of the scale but the company does receive very high reviews for its corporate culture.

This remote staffing company offers flexible, long-term positions as executive assistants, marketing and social media specialists, or legal assistants. What makes Boldly different is that they hire home workers in the US as a W2 employee rather than as a freelance contractor. The pay is also pretty good at around $20 per hour.

Where: US (23 states) and UK.

Profit Factory

This company helps business owners grow their businesses by helping them to break free from some of the day to day responsibilities. It also provides educational and consulting services.

The main job opportunity here is as a virtual assistant.

Where: North America.

This digital marketing and customer service outsourcer offers opportunities in phone support, email, web chat, social media and other digital channels. SYKES offers opportunities for remote work in over 40 US states, as well as in Canada.

Positions are available in customer services, as team leaders and in support roles. Previous experience is always an advantage. There are also specific opportunities for bilingual applicants.

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As is the case with secretarial work, companies that hire home workers primarily for writing, translation or transcription work are most likely offering said services to other businesses.

Allegis Transcription

Allegis offers a range of transcription services to small and medium sized businesses. You must be experienced and able to produce high quality accurate transcripts. These positions are for people working on a freelance basis, and you can choose jobs most suited to your knowledge and abilities.

You need your own computer and a reliable high-speed internet connection. Training is provided. You will need to show you have excellent spelling, grammar and punctuation skill, and the ability to type at 75 words per minute.

For more information on getting into online transcription, read our detailed guide here. 

BKA Content  

BKA Content offers content writing services to businesses that need blog, marketing and other content regularly or as one-off jobs. 

The company often has writing positions for US-based internet article writers who can provide high-quality, original content. They ask for honest, dependable writers with an excellent grasp of English at a college level, who can write at least 3000 words per week. Choose your assignments from the available options, set your schedule and get paid per article.

Where: US only

Cactus is a global medical communications company. Their philosophy is that their remote workers are as important as their office-based ones. Cactus has opportunities for skilled writers and editors in a variety of academic fields.

Full-time home-based working hours are available. Full training is provided. You will need a bachelor’s degree, excellent written English skills and a good understanding of MS Word and Excel.

As we discuss in our beginner’s guides to writing , full time writing work is hard to find, so this is an interesting opportunity.

If you’re not familiar with FlexJobs, we have a huge review of the company here . However, that focuses on how to find jobs using the platform rather than working directly for the company.

FlexJobs is fully remote, but jobs are primarily in the United States, with some requiring you to be in a particular state which is great if you’re in the US and  looking for “at home jobs near me.” 

There are roles to suit a variety of skills, including career coaches and job description writers. You will also find plenty of technical and marketing jobs.

Grow and Convert

Grow and Convert is a content marketing agency and consultancy, hiring content writers and analysts on a remote, contract basis.

Though most of their clients are US based the jobs are fully remote and contract based. The Business Writer role is paid on a fixed-price-per-article basis.

LanguageLine

This language services company provides a range of telephone services as well as document translation and remote video interpretation. Opportunities are available for remote staff in a range of interpreting and translation roles. The company provides services in over 200 languages and dialects.

Where: US, UK and Canada.

As one of the largest communications platforms, Lionsbridge is a company that hires homeworkers for lots of roles. The key thing here is to be clear on whether it is a contractor position or not.

Although it is perhaps best known for offering freelance translation work, the company also hires gamers, raters, annotators and testers. Or maybe you would prefer to be a corporate associate helping with the running of the company itself.

Responsive Translation Services

This company specialises in medical and legal translation. There are also opportunities to work in real-time interpretation. Headquarters are in the US, but they also have overseas offices in Europe and South America.

Many positions are home based. A variety of positions in sales and management were available also, when we looked. You will need previous experience and good technical ability too.

Where: US ,South America and Europe.

This company has multiple opportunities on offer. There’s work in transcription – both video and audio , video captioning and document translation. The company takes people on on a contract basis, with successful applicants working freelance from home.

Rev has been estabished for nine years and has a global reputation. There are many leading brands among its customers . You will need your own computer and fast internet connection, and can tailor your hours to suit your situation.

Rev is still accepting applications but there could be a waitlist due to the number of freelancers applying.

This online transcription company works with over 65,000 legal, government, law enforcement and private sector clients. They employ independent typists on a freelance basis. They are actively looking for transcriptionists with Legal, General or Spanish transcription experience.

You need a typing speed of at least 60wpm. You must have at least a year of transcription and word processing experience in an office environment, and must also have specific experience of the creation of formal letters, memos and reports.

Open to fluent English speakers only.

Where: US (except California) and Canada.

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It might surprise you to learn that positions in financial companies that hire home workers are not always limited to just one country. Then again, not all financial companies are focused on accounting and taxes.

AccountingDepartment.com

This Company provides opportunities for remote workers to provide accounting and book keeping assistance. You will need previous experience. Applicants are required to undergo book keeping tests and the success rate for applicants is only one in four.

You need to provide your own computer and phone line. You will also need a quiet working space as much of the work is on the phone.

AccountingDepartment.com has a notably positive Glassdoor rating from previous workers.

American Express

This leading financial services company has a wide variety of remote jobs hiring at any one time. The roles can range from customer service roles up to senior IT department positions. American Express works 24/7 so there are sometimes opportunities for those needing to work unsocial hours.

FlexJobs has an information page on the American Express home working jobs here.

Citizens Bank

It may be one of the oldest financial institutions in the US but Citizens Bank has definitely kept up with the times. It has won multiple employer awards and has an impressive number of work from home opportunities. Most are positions related to finance and mortgages but there are several admin and IT roles available as well.

JP Morgan Chase

This global financial services company offers plenty of opportunities for remote workers. There are typically remote roles on offer in various departments including account management, sales, marketing and IT.

Applicants must have experience in their chosen field and a relevant bachelor’s degree. Due to a large number of jobs available, finding suitable home-based roles on the website can take some effort.

This company is looking to hire financial nerds to help people make financial decisions with confidence.

This somewhat unusual financial company has offices in San Francisco, New York and the UK but are now offering the majority of jobs as fully remote from anywhere in the US.

A $20bn electronic payment startup, headquartered in San Francisco, California, Stripe has been a big success story in recent years. Stripe’s product supports payments from small websites, right up to the likes of household names like Lyft.

Although Stripe is a global company it currently only hires home workers in the US. All jobs offer health insurance, parental leave and stock options.

Supporting Strategies

This company hires home workers on a part-time and full-time basis in order to provide outsourced bookkeeping and back-office support to a wide variety of industries.

You will need a bachelor’s degree and five or more years of bookkeeping/accounting experience to become a Financial Operations Associate but the company does provide equipment, training and support.

Xapo is a digital Bitcoin-friendly bank that exists to help its customers protect their wealth from economic and political instability and crises. The bank is a platform that bridges the gap between traditional financial institutions and the digital currencies of the future.

The bank is committed to working hard, thinking globally and inspiring its people to learn and grow. It offers positions in Data, Design, Engineering, Finance, Product and the Xapo Talent Community. 

YNAB (YouNeedABudget)

YNAB is a fully remote company offering budgeting software for individuals and companies. The workforce is global, but US-based staff gain W2 employee status. Elsewhere, you work as a contractor, but the YNAB site insists that all staff are treated the same regardless of location.

Where: Global, Remote

Many people have the misconception that a Not for Profit cannot pay well – that is not the case. These companies usually place values above money and one of the things that they value are their employees. That makes not-for-profits some of the best work from home companies around, so don’t hesitate to check them out.

350 is a global climate pressure group, primarily involved in lobbying and campaigning.

Great for those with a passion for conservation and climate issues, 350 specifically looks for remote workers with experience in campaigning and fundraising.

Civic Actions

Civic Actions works with a variety of governmental organisations, helping them move more of their services to digital alternatives.

The team is primarily remote, with some roles limited to physical locations, and offers good benefits.

Ghost is a company that is focused on creating free open-source software to support sustainable journalism. This fully remote company hires workers for content writing and design as well as the more obvious engineering, product, and marketing roles.

Not all the companies that hire home workers fit into neat little categories – which is a good thing. People and jobs come in all shapes and sizes and that is what makes the world an interesting place. If you have a particular passion it can be worthwhile having a hunt to see if you can find work in that field. In the meantime, here are the best of the rest when it comes to finding companies hiring work from home contractors and remote employees.

24 Seven Talent

Established in 2000, 24 Seven Talent is a global recruitment company. It recruits workers for firms around the world but also offers remote and freelance contract jobs within its own company. 

The female-founded company promotes a diverse and inclusive workplace, offering competitive benefits and perks to its employees.

A quick search at the time of writing turned up a diverse range of remote and freelance jobs advertised (mainly in the US), including: Project Invoice Coordinator, Digital Designer, Inventory Admin, Production artist, and even a Broadcast Producer (though I’m guessing that’s a job that would get you out and about.)

ABC Fitness Solutions

This company provides software solutions to the fitness industry in order to help fitness clubs and professionals put their clients first.

As you might expect, the company hires home workers for tech, sales, and customer service roles.

This popular music platform helps artists get their music to new audiences, for a small fee of course.

Bandcamp is a fully remote company but if you would rather get out of your home they will pay for co-working spaces. The only requirement is that you have a strong wi-fi connection and can overlap with the GMT-7 time zone for four hours a day. Job openings tend to get filled pretty quickly and some positions are only open for inside hires so, if this interests you, make sure to keep an eye on their jobs page.

BuzzFeed  

BuzzFeed Inc, is a digital media company that sends up-to-the-minute video, audio and written content about food, news, pop culture and more to millions around the world. Their brands include BuzzFeed, Complex Networks and HuffPost.

The company promotes diversity, inclusion and authenticity in their workplace and offer benefits for health, 401K plans, paid holidays and opportunities for career development. BuzzFeed offers a mix of location specific and remote jobs in Admin, Business, Writing and Technology. If you’re interested in working for BuzzFeed but the right job isn’t there when you look, keep in touch with them by joining their Talent Community .

Providing online legal services to startups, Clerky has a variety of fully remote and co-located roles.

Aside from offering flexible hours and health insurance, the company is committed to the ongoing education of its employees.

Billing (sorry) itself as “the search engine that doesn’t track you” DuckDuckGo is an international company that offers a variety of remote jobs.

The majority of remote jobs available are naturally in engineering, product, and development roles. Unlike most companies, it was nice to see that most openings were worldwide remote rather than specific to a particular region.

Most of our readers are probably more familiar with GoDaddy from checking them out as a possible hosting service when starting a blog but they also hire a lot of home workers.

In fact, they had 86 job openings for home workers in multiple fields and in locations all over the globe at the time of writing.

If you have a knowledge of moderating forums and managing online communities, and a love of social media, this is a freelance business opportunity that could be of interest. You can choose hours and projects that suit you and your lifestyle. Some jobs are evening/night work.

You will need fast internet and a quiet workspace.

Nielson provides companies with information on what people listen to and watch in order to help them understand their audience. So it is hardly surprising to find that the company hires a lot of remote research interviewers.

There are plenty of opportunities if you live in the US and Nielson has now added a lot more global opportunities although some of these are listed as being remote only on a temporary basis. So, make sure to read the job post carefully to ensure that it really is a long-term home working position.

This well-known global company is a leading player in healthcare, electronics, and various other sectors. Philips employs over 100,000 staff across the globe, and these include numerous remote staff in many countries.

You need a bachelor’s degree for some positions and medical experience is a particular advantage for some roles. Local language skills are usually a must.

There are many jobs available on the website, which can be overwhelming, but searches for “home based” and “remote” usually yield results.

Shopify is a platform that enables independent business owners to start and scale their markets online. They have over 7000 employees who build the tools that help businesses make over 200 billion in sales in 175 countries. 

The company has an intensive hiring process which aims to find the very best work-anywhere people. After submitting your application, you’ll get an initial call. You will also need to do some technical exercises (depending on the role.) You progress to Life Story, a one-hour conversational interview with a professional recruiter if those go well. Finally, you meet some of your future co-workers, who will then give feedback on how they feel you’ll fit into their team. 

Shopify offers a wide variety of potential jobs. Its teams include everything from Business and Development to Financial, Legal, Engineering, UX, Customer Support and more. 

Splice is another company which is likely to appeal to music lovers. It has positioned itself at the leading edge of the digital revolution in the music industry and offers full-time positions and internships.

Although a significant number of job openings are for its office in New York, Splice does offer many remote positions, especially in engineering.

Love fashion? Stitch Fix is looking to revolutionize the retail shopping experience by helping men and women find clothing that fits their tastes and lifestyle.

As you would expect, there are oportunities to work as stylists but this company actually has loads of job postings for remote work in other fields as well.

Where: US and UK.

Twilio is a PaaS company focused on communication. If you are passionate about helping people connect and are technically inclined then this could be a great fit.

The company is proud of its flexible work environment and is currently offering several fully remote positions.

Upwork is a freelancer work marketplace that helps match freelancers from all over the world with the people who need their skills. 

(You can find many articles about Upwork on our site as we feel it’s an excellent place for many new freelancers to begin their new careers.) 

But, as well as finding jobs on Upwork, the company also employs many remote workers to run its business. Teams include Design and UX, Analytics, Engineering, Finance and Accounting, HR, IT, Legal, Marketing and more. 

Upwork’s hiring process includes an easy-to-complete application form, review, and interviews. After that, the recruiter decides and, potentially, offers you either an Open Corp position or a Contract Role.

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Voxnest connects podcast producers and advertisers.

Though fully remote, and offering yearly meet-ups, roles seem to be European time zone only, and include support roles and other customer focussed jobs.

Where: European time zone.

This unique company takes on independent 1099 contractors close to retirement age, giving them the opportunity to continue their working lives remotely. WAHVE places such people with firms looking for knowledgable and experienced workers.

It’s great for people who wish to extend their working lives but without the daily commute. WAHVE specialises in roles within the accounting, human resources and insurance sectors.

Household-name Xerox has over 8000 employees working from home, providing a range of services including customer care, tech support, quality control and programming. Some specific opportunities are available for bilingual applicants.

Required experience and qualifications vary, but excellent computer skills are always essential. Xerox’s job search functionality is rather clunky, so uncovering the remote roles can take some work!

Find out what FlexJobs has to say about the telecommuting jobs at Xerox here .

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  • The number of days US employees spend working from home increased from 1.58 per week in January 2021 to 2.37 in June 2022.
  • The tight US labour market is making workers feel more confident in making demands of their employers about remote working.
  • Employers that have increased the number of remote days they offer have done so out of concern for worker productivity and retention, an economist says.
  • But some employees feel there are too many remote days, and younger workers are keener to go to the office to build up their social and professional networks.

More than two years after the start of the covid-19 pandemic, US workers are closer than ever to getting the remote-work arrangements they want.

In late 2020, the gap between how many work from home days workers wanted and how many remote days hybrid employers were planning was 1.38 days, according to a monthly online survey from WFH Research , a project that has been tracking workplace attitudes and worker arrangements each month since May 2020. By June 2022, that gap had narrowed to 0.44 days.

The difference is largely gone not because employees are wanting fewer remote days, but because employers are offering more of them, with the average number of days per week employees are invited to work from home rising from 1.58 days per week in January 2021 to 2.37 days per week in June 2022.

The narrowing gap signals that the US labor market remains tight , with workers feeling confident in making demands of their employers.

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A graph showing US workers' desires and employer plans for number of work from home days per week.

Companies are continuing to experiment with work from home patterns, said Nicholas Bloom , an economist who helped conduct the study (and who has been working from home since 2004). Employers that increased the number of remote days did so out of concern for worker productivity and retention, he said.

But some employees feel there are too many remote days. For instance, Bloom says, many younger workers want to work from home no more than two or three days each week, perhaps because unlike their older counterparts, younger employees have yet to build up their social and professional networks.

What does the future hold for remote work?

The increased embrace—or tolerance—of remote work also comes as a potential recession looms. Will remote work trends withstand a downturn?

Slashing office spending is one way for employers to cut costs. But a recession typically brings about layoffs and higher unemployment, so management may gain the upper hand eventually.

The Future of Jobs Report 2023 found that 75% of companies surveyed expect to adopt AI, big data and cloud technologies in the next five years.

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The share of the American workforce working from home more than tripled from 2019 to 2021, with women and those earning a higher income most likely to do so, according to recent reports from the U.S. Census Bureau.

In 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, 5.7% of working Americans were working from home. But that percentage grew to 17.9% in just two years, reflecting an increase of almost 19 million workers.

Bureau analyses based on American Community Survey estimates also show the growth and prevalence of home-based work varied by income level, as well as by gender and race. Growth was particularly evident among the highest-paid members of the workforce, with those in the top 10% for income increasing from a 10.5% share of home-based workers in 2019 to a 37.9% share in 2021.

Workers in the bottom half of income percentiles increased from a 4.9% share in 2019 to 11.2% in 2021.

At the same time, while the number of home-based workers across various racial or ethnic groups at least doubled over that two-year period, white workers continued to constitute a disproportionate share of that workforce at 67% in 2021 – 4 points higher than the 63% of the total working population that was white that year.

People of Asian heritage also worked from home at a higher rate (10%) than their share of the overall workforce (6%), while the opposite dynamic was true for Black and Hispanic workers.

This disparity is likely fueled by the racial distribution of income. Bureau analysts note , for instance, that white workers were overrepresented at the highest end of income distribution and underrepresented at the bottom in 2021, while the opposite was true for Black workers.

Meanwhile, prior to the pandemic, women accounted for a higher share of home-based workers than men, and that majority ticked up slightly from 50.9% to 51.4% from 2019 to 2021.

Notably, according to the bureau, women made up a majority of the workforce in the more remote-friendly job groups of management, business, science and arts occupations and sales and office occupations.

Child care also may be a contributing factor to the gender disparities in home-based work. Women carry a heavier burden in child care generally, and a January 2022 survey from the Pew Research Center found that among parents working from home who had children under 18, 32% cited child care as a major factor.

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For many of those now working from home, doing so is now a decision that appears to be in their own hands. According to the same Pew survey, 61% of respondents who worked from home at least most of the time but had a workplace elsewhere were opting not to commute to their job, compared with 38% whose offices or workplaces were closed or unavailable – a flip in trends from October 2020. And 60% of those with jobs where remote work is possible indicated that they would like to continue to work from home all or most of the time after the pandemic is over.

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A review of 1,930 papers into home working found major pluses, but also downsides such as antisocial hours and being overlooked for promotion

Working from home allows people to eat more healthily, feel less stressed and have lower blood pressure, according to a large-scale review of academic literature on post-pandemic workplaces.

Yet remote workers are also more likely to eat snacks, drink more, smoke more and put on weight, the study by researchers at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and King’s College London found. And employers who believe that people working from home are lazy should think again – they are less likely to take time off sick, tend to work longer hours and to work evenings and weekends.

The review, led by Charlotte Hall from the UKHSA, considered 1,930 academic papers on home working, teleworking and other types of hybrid and home working in an effort to distil the often contradictory research.

Prof Neil Greenberg, a psychiatrist at King’s College London and one of the study’s authors, said the study showed that workers and employers needed to start considering home working with the same seriousness as they did office working.

“In the old days of office working, people realised that if you put everyone in the same room with no sound-proofing, it was all unpleasant and you didn’t have a very productive workforce,” he said.

“Now that we’ve shifted to a home working culture, it makes sense for organisations and the government to make sure that people who are home working are doing it in as effective a way as possible.”

The review, published in the Journal of Occupational Health , identified three themes – the working environment at home, the effect on workers’ lives and careers, and the effect on their health. Greenberg said the research showed that there were winners and losers in many areas of home working. The working environment depended on how much space there was at home, the available equipment and on how much control workers had over their day.

People on higher incomes often enjoyed home working more, but those with more responsibilities at home such as childcare or housework – often women and those living alone – tended to be more stressed.

“Overall, people felt more productive at home,” Greenberg said. “It was particularly good for creative things, but much more difficult dealing with tedious matters. A lot of people worried about career prospects – this feeling that if you’re not present in the office, you’re going to get overlooked.”

Effects on health were clearer. The transition to home working during Covid was linked “with an increase in intake of vegetables, fruit, dairy, snacks, and self-made meals; younger workers and females benefited the most in terms of healthier eating,” the paper said.

One of the studies reviewed found that 46.9% of employees working from home had gained weight, and another put the figure at 41%. Most of the papers reviewed showed that homeworkers were more sedentary.

Greenberg said: “Managers needed to think about finding ways to support their homeworkers and help create their working environment.

“There’s a great adage in science that at some point, we need to stop admiring the problem and actually think about solutions,” he said. “We know quite a lot now. So we need to ask ‘what is the best training for an individual who’s going to become a partial homeworker?’ What we don’t need to do is to ask ‘would it be helpful to train someone to homework?’ The answer is clearly yes.”

Since the end of Covid restrictions in 2022, some companies have insisted that employees return to the office full-time, with firms such as JP Morgan requiring managers to be in five days a week.

“If companies like JP Morgan are afraid that people at home will be slacking, or won’t be doing a good job, and they can’t keep an eye on them, then I think that is an outdated concept,” Greenberg said.

Refusing WFH options will mean that talented employees may find other jobs, and makes companies less flexible in the event of future crises, such as another health emergency or strikes or severe weather conditions that prevent people from reaching their offices, he added.

“If they are doing it merely out of fear, then they risk being left behind,” he said. “We looked at a huge amount of evidence of the years and what our review shows is that there are ways to make the home working approach actually work well for the organisation and also for the employee.”

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A parallel universe of millions of employees did not have the luxury of thinking about returning to the office — they never left. Six workers share their experiences.

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Day after day, they went to work.

While white-collar America largely worked from the cocoons of their homes, these workers left for jobs elsewhere. Most had no choice.

For many workers around the country, the Delta variant’s surge this summer upended long-awaited plans to return to the office this fall. But millions more — including nurses, cashiers, restaurant and grocery workers, delivery drivers, factory workers, janitors and housekeepers — never worked from home in the first place.

“They’re the people who often are working around the public, often working in jobs that are requiring them to be at particular risk from the virus,” said Eliza Forsythe, an economist at the University of Illinois. “All of these types of jobs where you’re not sitting at a computer — that’s what’s really been the backbone for allowing the rest of the economy to go remote.”

More than a year and a half after the pandemic disrupted nearly all aspects of everyday life, one of the starkest economic divides to emerge has been between workers who can work from home and those who cannot.

We asked six never-remote workers about their experiences and they shared their stories below.

Just 35 percent of Americans — fewer than 50 million people out of 137 million — worked from home at some point in May 2020 because of the pandemic, when remote work was at its peak, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Those who could not work from home were employed in a wide array of industries, including health care, agriculture, leisure and hospitality, retail, transportation, construction and manufacturing. Many were considered part of the army of frontline and essential workers, with jobs that were considered so critical that they could not be put on hold even during a public health crisis. They were typically lower-wage, less educated and disproportionately people of color .

During a time when millions of Americans lost their jobs, a portion of these workers — those who worked throughout the pandemic or who were only unable to work in the early days of the virus — could be considered relatively lucky.

At the same time, many of these never-remote workers could not afford, or did not have the necessary skills, to find other jobs despite the fear of contagion. And a large share also lost their jobs completely, in part because they were unable to work remotely when their businesses temporarily or permanently closed during the pandemic. Many of these workers had jobs in the service industry.

Perhaps most importantly, the pandemic has shed more light on how grueling and thankless many of these never-remote jobs are — a parallel universe of work in which millions of employees did not have the luxury of thinking about returning to the office at all.

(The workers’ interviews have been edited for length and clarity.)

Anjannette Reyes, 54, Orlando, Fla.

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So many didn’t come back to work. People are afraid to work at the airport. We push more than one wheelchair at the same time because we don’t have manpower. Sometimes for international flights, we have 17 wheelchairs and only two of us. We take them through security and run to get the others. People miss flights. People cry. We’re constantly apologizing.

I was recently hurt from pushing too many wheelchairs. My whole arm felt like needles and pounding. The doctor said I had a tear. I was off for two weeks. I didn’t get paid for that.

I earn $7.58 an hour plus tips. You don’t get sick pay. You don’t get vacation pay. There’s no retirement pay. There are other people who are injured and still pushing chairs. There’s people with back ulcers and shoulder pain. Co-workers are getting sick. I tell them, “Go home.” But they don’t. They rely on the tips to survive.

Even though I’m going through this, I don’t feel safe getting another job out there. If there’s another breakout, we’ll feel safer at the airport. This is the only place that kept on going because they needed to move people around — people who were sick, doctors, lawyers. We needed to keep the airport open.

Avelina Mendes, 63, Brockton, Mass.

College custodian

At first, I didn’t know how serious the virus was. I mean, I protected myself, but I didn’t pay that much attention to it until my sister got Covid. It was Dec. 27.

She had the symptoms. She’s 75. She decided to go to the emergency room so she took a shower and then, all of a sudden, she collapsed. She hurt her back. She’s been paralyzed since.

She’s in a nursing home now. I used to go and see her from the window and we would talk on the phone. She would tell me what she wants and I would bring it. She likes to eat Cape Verdean food.

Every time I think about it, I cry. Then I wipe my tears, put my mask on and go to work.

I clock in. I put all the trash outside. After I disinfect the bathroom, I vacuum the lobby. As long as it’s not that many cases on campus, I feel pretty good about it.

But if it goes up, that’s when the fear comes. I panic. I lose sleep. When I think about my sister, that could be me. I am out all the time, doing the work.

Kim Ducote, 42, St. George, Utah

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I was jobless from March 15 to August of 2020, and I had $200 left in my bank account. And some friends of mine opened a restaurant and they offered me a serving position there. I was the only server. And I thought ‘Oh my god, this was a godsend.’ Like, I had no idea what I was going to do. I’m down to $200 in my bank, no options. I didn’t really want to go back into the service industry but this was the only opportunity that presented itself.

I went back, and things were starting to look up and go well. And I started making money again and people were loving this food and we were really quickly building a name for ourselves. And in October, all three of us got Covid so we had to shut down for I think it was just over six weeks.

The husband-and-wife chef team — they got Covid really bad. Their symptoms were pretty severe. And for me, I just had a terrible headache, a very slight cough and severe exhaustion for about three days, and then I bounced right back. And they were unsure how long it was going to take them to reopen.

So during that time, I decided ‘Well, I can’t be jobless again for an indefinite period of time. I have to look for something else.’ So I applied at a local homeless shelter and I got a job there.

Juan Sanchez Bernal, 62, Harrison, N.J.

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When the pandemic began, the number of people we saw in the offices, it almost dropped to half. It created panic. Many of us would have loved to work from home, but sadly, because we are cleaning people, how can we?

One employee from our group got sick and died. I felt sad. We were a team, you know? We talked about baseball, basketball, about the countries we came from.

This is the country that chose us. If in a moment of crisis, we got to choose between the things we like and the things we don’t like, what’s the contribution we are making? We have all done the essential work required — we have all contributed our grain of sand.

We didn’t stop working. I arrive at 6 in the morning. We take out the trash. We are always disinfecting. We always use masks.

My youngest daughter studied from home because her university was closed. She was watching over me. When I came back from work, she was all over me: Did you wash your hands? Take off your clothes! Take a shower right now! My other daughter called all the time.

I would tell them, ‘Remember that everybody who was born has to die, so calm down.’ They laughed. If you get more stressed, you’ll die faster. So, you better laugh.

Isabela Burrows, 19, Grand Blanc, Mich.

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I don’t want people to be treated the same way that I have been and to feel that loneliness and fear that I felt.

I started working at a major pet store in late September last year. I made $10.50 an hour. For the first five months of my job, I was just a cashier. One day, a tall, bulky man leaned around my Plexiglas shield and purposely coughed. I think we were out of the dog food that he needed or something.

My brother passed on May 22. He was my little buddy. His aorta tore and infection spread through his body, and he had a stroke that crushed his brain stem. He couldn’t keep going, so we decided it would be best if we took him off life support. My manager was not empathetic or compassionate. She even told me to just get over it, that my feelings from home didn’t transfer over to work. It was traumatic. I was not comfortable working in that store anymore. I transferred in mid-June.

My new store is short staffed. We’re all being wrung dry. You’ll be trying to unload inventory from a truck shipment and then there will be someone needing fish or four different phone calls. Sometimes someone will forget to give the birds more millet.

I’m worried about the weather getting cold again, if the cases will spike and whether my family and co-workers will be safe. I’ve already had one loss this year.

April Fitch, 58, Newark, N.J.

Airport security guard

More people would have preferred to stay home or work from home. If I had that opportunity, I would have, most definitely.

I caught Covid at the end of March. I was not feeling well. My mom was in a nursing home. I called her on April 6 and told her that my birthday was soon. I told her, “I’m coming to break you out of the house.” She laughed. On April 8, the nursing home called me and told me she was taken to the hospital. A week later she passed away due to Covid.

I ended up using two weeks of vacation days, all of my sick days and they gave me my three days for bereavement. There was no time to even deal with the fact that I lost my mom while I was dealing with Covid myself.

The first day going back to work was scary. I’m still scared. It’s very crowded now. I try to stay six feet apart. If someone asks me a question, I try to keep them at a distance.

Aidan Gardiner contributed reporting on the worker interviews. Eduardo Varas translated Juan Sanchez’s interview from Spanish.

An earlier version of this article incorrectly described the circumstances leading to the death of the brother of the pet store worker, Isabela Burrows. Her brother's aorta tore, which caused an infection that led to a stroke.

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Employers and employees have spent the past few years engaged in an arm-wrestling match of sorts over the return to offices. For a while, the odds were in workers’ favor. A white-hot labor market gave workers a lot of leverage, including the ability to dictate their own work-from-home schedule. The tides, however, are shifting. Employers are clawing back power , and some companies are using that power to compel workers back to their desks — or face some consequences.

If your company is doing layoffs , whether you work from home is probably not going to be the sole factor in deciding whether you get cut. But many large companies that have recently let people go have made it known that employees who, in the eyes of the higher-ups, exist mostly as faceless beings on a computer screen have a greater chance of getting a pink slip. The risk is a frustrating, if foreseeable, one for workers: out of sight, out of mind, out the door. 

Executives at the online furniture retailer Wayfair told its staff in January that remote workers were likelier to be hit in its latest round of job cuts. IBM similarly warned its US managers they needed to start reporting to the office at least three days a week or leave. This month, Snap said its layoffs were meant to, in part, “promote in-person collaboration,” and Reuters reported the tech company’s cuts seemed to affect remote workers more than officegoers. Dell is telling workers it looks forward to seeing them around more, too. 

This isn’t a brand-new development — big names, from Google to Amazon to Goldman Sachs , have been ratcheting up the return-to-office pressure for months. But we're in a moment where headlines about high-profile layoffs are basically a daily occurrence. Add in long-term trends, like the decline in loyalty between employers and employees , and it's no wonder remote workers feel anxious about cuts.

“It’s not too surprising,” Peter Cappelli, a management professor at the Wharton School who has never been a big fan of remote work, said. “We might say it’s not fair, and they could both be true. There are lots of things that aren’t fair that nevertheless are predictable.”

There isn’t an extensive amount of research on whether working from home hugely increases the risk of layoffs, but it’s “quite possible” that’s the case, Nick Bloom, a Stanford economist and expert on remote work, said. It makes sense, given the research that is out there — and human nature. “Proximity bias is alive and well,” Bloom said. He pointed to a pair of experiments he ran on remote work and promotions. They found that working from home two days a week had no impact on promotion rates, but working from home four days a week halved them.

We might say it’s not fair, and they could both be true. There are lots of things that aren’t fair that nevertheless are predictable.

Emily Dickens, the head of public affairs at the Society for Human Resource Management, told me her research found that 42% of supervisors forgot about employees working remotely when assigning tasks, and nearly three-quarters said they preferred their direct reports to be in the office. “That is something remote workers should be thinking about as they’re engaging with supervisors,” she said. Remote workers aren’t doomed to the unemployment line, but they may want to try a little extra to get noticed. “Knowing is half the battle that you probably have to do some more work proactively to make sure that you remain top of mind,” she said.

It’s fair to note that these risks probably won’t dramatically shift the nature of the US job market. The remote-work phenomenon mainly applies to white-collar workers, and even a small proportion of that group remains fully remote. Stanford’s work-from-home survey found that 12% of full-time employees were fully remote by fall 2023, while 58% were full time on-site and 30% were hybrid. Office occupancy rates have been ticking up . “A large chunk of companies have found a decent rhythm,” Prithwiraj Choudhury, a Harvard Business School professor who specializes in the future of work, said.

But even if the macroeconomic implications of remote workers’ precarity are muted, debate around working from home can be a heated one, with factions dug in on both sides. The state of work is still in flux as the country gets to whatever a “new normal” is in the wake of the pandemic. Employers and employees are working out what the reasonable expectations are, what’s going to revert to how it was, and what is forever changed. Making matters worse is that the data on productivity and working from home is a choose-your-own-adventure situation , and a lot depends on how workplaces approach the issue. Working from home can make life much better for many workers; for some, it makes it worse. Employers that insist workers come back to the office may lose valuable talent if that talent can go elsewhere, meaning the risk here is two-sided.

Workers at all levels over the course of history had lots of ideas about how their jobs could be made easier and more productive and more pleasant. And many of those ideas are valid, but many of them are unrealistic.

Through the lens of layoffs, questions of what the most correct, impartial system is for figuring out whom to let go aren’t always central to the discussion. It would be great if layoff decisions were only ever based on quantitative metrics, but they often aren’t. It would be wonderful if everything at work were fair and equitable and everyone got the same perks; this is not reality. 

“Workers at all levels over the course of history had lots of ideas about how their jobs could be made easier and more productive and more pleasant. And many of those ideas are valid, but many of them are unrealistic,” Joseph Fuller, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, said. Many workers have a point that they can work from home fine. That doesn’t mean that their boss will or even should go for it, or that it won’t play a role when staffing decisions are made down the line. 

There’s no surefire way to make sure that if and when the time for layoffs comes, you won’t be on the chopping block. (But if you have discovered a way, let me know.) Staff cuts often seem like they’re done with little rhyme or reason, but it may not be a bad idea to put in a little face time now and then with the decision-makers — maybe they’ll at least feel a little pang of guilt as they cross your name off the staff list.

Emily Stewart is a senior correspondent at Business Insider, writing about business and the economy.

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A thick layer of smog covers central in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. City officials in Thailand’s capital Bangkok were ordered Thursday to work from home for two days, and workers in the private sector were encouraged to do likewise as air pollution soared to unhealthy levels. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

A thick layer of smog covers central in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. City officials in Thailand’s capital Bangkok were ordered Thursday to work from home for two days, and workers in the private sector were encouraged to do likewise as air pollution soared to unhealthy levels. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

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BANGKOK (AP) — City employees in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, were ordered Thursday to work from home for two days, and those in the private sector were encouraged to do so as well, as air pollution soared to unhealthy levels.

Air pollution has been a problem for many years in Thailand’s north, where the burning of forests and agricultural waste are major contributing factors. But in recent years Bangkok has also begun to suffer greatly with extended periods of high pollution that have led to school closings and other disruptions.

The Department of Pollution Control declared last month that Bangkok had officially entered its annual smog season, but the region has suffered from deteriorating air quality since late last year. For Chiang Mai and other northern provinces which experience prolonged high levels of microscopic dust, the season usually begins in late February, when dry weather and an atmospheric inversion layer cause airborne particles to accumulate.

Bangkok’s Air Quality Index measured an unhealthy 156 on Thursday, with readings of over 163 in some areas, prompting the stay-at-home order, according to the city government.

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Since Monday, Bangkok’s AQI has ranged from 121 to 160.

The microscopic particles can penetrate deeply into the lungs and then move further into the body, causing both short-term bronchial problems and serious long-term health issues. The World Health Organization’s guidelines say levels of fine particulate matter equal to AQI 56 should not be exceeded for 24-hour average exposures.

The Thai government last year revised its maximum level of fine particulate matter considered safe from an equivalent of AQI 136 down to 105 to be more in line with international standards.

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The government’s Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency, which uses satellites for remote sensing, declared that 66 of Thailand’s 77 provinces are suffering unhealthy air quality, with 44 of them considered very unhealthy.

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One repercussion of the conflict between Hamas and Israel is being felt far away, in India. That is where skilled laborers are vying for thousands of jobs that Israel is seeking to fill - jobs that some say Palestinians once held. NPR's Diaa Hadid reports from the northern Indian city of Lucknow.

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UNIDENTIFIED MUSICAL ARTIST: (Singing in non-English language).

DIAA HADID, BYLINE: A devotional song blares from a Hindu temple as dozens of men cram in line for the chance to register for work in Israel. Mostly, though, what the men hear are orders. One official directs the men to sit down over there if they haven't registered.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Non-English language spoken).

HADID: As they jostle to get to the top of the line, a security guard orders them to sit down.

UNIDENTIFIED SECURITY GUARD: (Non-English language spoken).

HADID: "Do it like gentlemen," he says. "No need for mischief."

Ramakant Biswakarma is a carpenter. He's been here for three days waiting for his turn to register.

RAMAKANT BISWAKARMA: (Non-English language spoken).

HADID: He's bunking with a friend. He says other men are sleeping on nearby pavements at a cheap hotel.

Another man in line, Bahadur Singh, says the money he could earn in Israel - more than $1,600 a month - is more than five times what he'd get paid here for the same work - when he can find it...

BAHADUR SINGH: (Non-English language spoken).

HADID: ...But seems nervous about going. He hears there's bombs falling over there. On the upside, he says, this is a deal between the Indian and Israeli governments. This means he doesn't have to risk employment agents fleecing him.

SINGH: (Non-English language spoken).

HADID: He says, a few years ago, he paid an agent his life savings - $600 - on the promise of a job abroad. Then the agent disappeared. It's a common story.

This recruitment drive comes after India and Israel inked a deal in May for thousands of skilled laborers to work in the Jewish state, but the rush to recruit only began in earnest after conflict erupted between Israel and Hamas. After the war began, Israel paused work permits for Palestinians, citing security concerns. That paralyzed Israel's building sector, which relies on Palestinian labor. Then, the vice president of the Israel Builders Association, Haim Feiglin, told Voice of America that his country was negotiating with India to bring in more workers to replace Palestinians.

HAIM FEIGLIN: We hope to engage 50,000 to 100,000 workers from India to be able to run the whole sector and bring it back to normal.

HADID: So shortly after the recruitment drive began, 10 Indian labor unions announced they opposed the move. So did members of India's chief opposition party.

PRAVEEN CHAKRAVARTY: What are we essentially saying by doing this?

HADID: Praveen Chakravarty is a political economist affiliated with the opposition Congress party.

CHAKRAVARTY: We are essentially saying, oh, don't worry. Even if you attack Palestinians and you don't have Palestinian labor, we will supplement that. That is direct intervention.

HADID: Navtej Sarna, a former Indian ambassador to Israel, says what this deal actually shows is the strength of the India-Israel relationship.

NAVTEJ SARNA: The - it shows that the two governments are comfortable working with each other, and this is something which has built up over the last 30 years.

HADID: Those 30 years have been key. Before that, India was a prominent ally of Palestinians. Now, India is one of the biggest customers of Israeli weaponry. That relationship has grown even closer under the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist. Many Indians see the two countries as ideologically aligned and like it that way.

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HADID: Back in the line outside the registration office, we meet Manoj Sharma, who waits to register for work in Israel.

MANOJ SHARMA: I love India. I love Israel.

HADID: He says he's even willing to fight for Israel.

SHARMA: (Non-English language spoken).

HADID: "He says, Hamas killed innocent people. Now, Palestinians have lost their chance to work in Israel." He says, "Indians can do it now."

Diaa Hadid, NPR News, Lucknow.

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Victor Mukhin, Speaker at Chemical Engineering Conferences

Victor M. Mukhin was born in 1946 in the town of Orsk, Russia. In 1970 he graduated the Technological Institute in Leningrad. Victor M. Mukhin was directed to work to the scientific-industrial organization "Neorganika" (Elektrostal, Moscow region) where he is working during 47 years, at present as the head of the laboratory of carbon sorbents.     Victor M. Mukhin defended a Ph. D. thesis and a doctoral thesis at the Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia (in 1979 and 1997 accordingly). Professor of Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia. Scientific interests: production, investigation and application of active carbons, technological and ecological carbon-adsorptive processes, environmental protection, production of ecologically clean food.   

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