Lilacs4Me
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 31, 2015
I really need a work from home position. I live in an area where jobs are scarce and low paying. The closest major city is over 50 miles away. I have over 21 years administrative/ clerical experience. How do you find legit work from home positions?
Mine came to me. Our division's office closed and we were told we could either be laid off, move to HQ out of state, or start working from home. We were able to secure a meeting room one day a week in another division's office, but work from home the other 4 days/week.
Most companies that I know of, are getting on board with flex scheduling perks, and the best one (IMO) is working from home on a regular basis. My company started out letting employees choose one day a week to work from home, and then as employees started to prove themselves trustworthy of the "perk" allowing more days per manager discretion. By the time our office closed, everyone had been working from home a couple days a week as it was and the transition was smooth.
Unless you are a call center rep or something similar, or in national/territory sales, I don't think there are very many "legit" work from home opportunities out there that aren't affiliated with an already-established employment arrangement, but I could be wrong or unaware. I've certainly not heard of many people whose #1 criteria in a job search was "I want to work from home". It kinds of seems like it comes along with the perks of a company who wants to give their employees a good work/life balance, but isn't inherently a "thing" to base a job hunt on. JMO
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