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#JobSearch : Top 5 Stay At Home Jobs For Moms Or Dads. Question: Would you Like to Work at Home?

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Working from home is a great way to improve your work-life balance because it allows you to spend more time with your family. The average remote worker has an estimated extra five hours per week to do the things they enjoy. Those hours are recouped from commuting. According to Zippia, it takes the average American 27.6 minutes to travel to work. That makes a total of 55.2 minutes per day traveling to and from work.

While a lot of companies currently allow their employees to work from home part-time, you can acquire full-time remote work. Here are the top five stay at home jobs for moms and dads.

1. Call Center Agent

A call center agent answers calls, responds to emails, and deals with customer enquiries over webchat. Depending on the company, you will either deal with inbound calls only, or inbound and outbound calls. Employees who take both calls are referred to as, ‘blended agents.’

Median Pay: $35,389 per year

Qualifications: Typically, a high school diploma is enough to secure a call center position. But if you want to earn more money, you will need additional qualifications. However, you will receive on-the-job training.

 

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2. Virtual Assistant

As a virtual assistant, you are responsible for providing remote assistance to an organization, or an individual. Their duties include interacting with clients or customers, organizing data, conducting research, sorting documents, and updating calendars.

Qualifications: Virtual assistants do not need any qualifications. But, you will need to have excellent computer skills because your employer will require you to use specific programs to complete your tasks.

3. Online Tutoring

Students looking for additional help to pass their exams or get them through the school year will hire an online tutor. Online tutors work with one student at a time. What you teach them in is dependent upon your area of expertise.

Median Pay: $51,058 per year

Qualifications: The qualifications required for an online tutoring job will depend on your area of expertise and what you plan on teaching. However, you will need a GED to work on most tutoring platforms. To teach English, you will need a Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) certification.

4. Remote Software Developer

A remote software developer designs and creates systems and software programs for their employer. They also test and maintain existing programs and websites.

Median Pay: $111,000 per year

Qualifications: You don’t need a degree to become a software developer; however, you will need to know how to use programs like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. If you are not familiar with these programs, there are courses available to teach you how to use them.

5. Data Entry Clerk

A data entry clerk is responsible for inputting, maintaining, and updating accurate information into computer systems and databases. They may also correct errors, verify data, and organize files to ensure data integrity.

Median Pay: $40,000 per year

Data Entry Clerk: You will need a high school diploma to become a data entry clerk.

How Do You Land A Great Remote Job?

The job application process for a remote job is no different than it is for an office job. Make sure your resume is up to date and start sending them out to companies who offer remote work. You will find vacancies posted on jobsites, but you can also ask friends and family if they know of any remote working opportunities.

While working from home seems ideal, it is important to understand that it is a very different dynamic to an office. You will need to create an office space, structure your day, and organize your time. Additionally, you will need an extra dose of self-discipline because there are so many distractions at home. You won’t have a manager overshadowing you, all of which make it very easy to slack off. However, if you know you can handle being self-motivated and self-reliant, working from home is extremely rewarding.

Forbes.com | February 7, 2024 | Goldie Chan

 

#YourCareer : They’re Talking Behind My Back- Remote Workers Feel Unsupported. Thoughts/Comments??

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Working from home may not be the Shangri-La it’s cracked up to be. In fact, remote workers are more likely than on-site workers to believe their associates don’t treat them equally, a new study shows.

Employees who work from home or another remote location struggle harder than on-site workers to handle issues such as getting co-workers to fight for their priorities, according to a survey of 1,153 workers by VitalSmarts, a corporate-training firm. Roughly half of those who responded primarily worked remotely.

The findings of the survey, conducted in September and October, highlight “the importance of organizations figuring out how to manage remote employees,’’ said David Maxfield, vice president of research at VitalSmarts and the study’s co-author.

Most U.S. employers let staffers telecommute sometimes, according to the Society for Human Resource Management. Companies say remote work improves employee satisfaction and retention while helping recruitment.

But the practice also creates challenges. According to the VitalSmarts survey, remote workers are significantly more likely than their on-site colleagues to report seeing colleagues change projects without warning and to believe co-workers say bad things behind their backs and lobby against them with others.

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Remote employees perceive greater workplace harm from these problems than on-site employees,including wasted time, more stress, lower productivity and lower morale, the survey found.

Mr. Maxfield believes individuals working remotely have trouble solving work difficulties because they rarely meet face-to-face with their supervisors. “Out of sight, out of mind,’’ he said.

Nearly half of everyone canvassed by VitalSmarts said the most successful managers check in frequently and regularly with remote staffers.

Companies use different approaches to help remote workers. Belay Inc., a startup with an all-remote workforce, takes a strict stance on the gossip issue cited in the VitalSmarts study. The firm’s 71 corporate employees and 540 contract workers provide such services as virtual assistants.

At Dell Technologies Inc., about 15% of employees have formally signed up to work wherever they prefer, but 58% work remotely at least one day a week.

The tech giant says it encourages leaders to check in regularly with subordinates regardless of whether their staffers work in the same building, from home or a distant office. Feeling isolated “is not something unique to remote work,’’ noted Mohammed Chahdi, Dell’s director of global human resources services.

Many employers, however, “have let remote work happen rather than make it happen. They haven’t done the (management) training,’’ said Kate Lister, president of Global Workplace Analytics, a consultancy.

That is why National Equity Fund Inc. trained managers before the nonprofit real-estate syndicator and builder of low-income homes offered remote work in 2013 throughout the company.

During the training, bosses learned to trust employees working from home, said Gaylene Domer, vice president of facilities management. “A lot of our managers who were so dead set against it are now working from home’’ she said.

More than half of National Equity’s 176 employees now primarily work from home, though they still must come to the office at least two days a week.

WSJ.com | November 1, 2017 | Joann S. Lublin