Below you'll find some of the top legitimate companies that provide work-at-home jobs, remote jobs, and flexible jobs.
There are many choices for people looking to work at home to create extra income. But it's very important to find the kind of work that will fulfill your needs. Does the work you're looking at meets the following criteria?
- Matches your skills.
- Has the type of work that you can feel comfortable doing.
- Offers flexible hours that meet your schedule.
- Meets your financial goals.
You want work from home that pays enough to make it worth it to work, and you want work that values your experience. One of these might fit.
Here are the top legitimate companies that can help you find work-from-home, remote jobs, and flexible jobs. As always, I recommend checking out the company and job offer and doing your due diligence.
1- Work at Home Jobs with Amazon Remote
Amazon has sometimes virtual or work-from-home positions available for qualified people who live in certain areas. Remote jobs from Amazon include customer service, writing, and content management; sales, advertising, and account management; marketing and PR; product management; software development; product management, and more.
Virtual opportunities with Amazon are not available in all areas. Set the search filters to Virtual and Work from Home.
When doing a search, I found positions for a virtual customer associate, virtual customer service associate, virtual technical support associate, and bilingual Japanese technical support associate flex work from home. One of the jobs was in the US and three were in South Africa. Keep searching regularly to find virtual jobs in your area.
From the company:
The Amazon minimum wage for all U.S. employees is now $15/hour. They are now paying $17/hour for new hires.
Check to see if there are virtual jobs in your area at https://www.amazon.jobs/en-gb/locations/virtual-locations. Also check http://www.amazondelivers.jobs/
Customer Service and Reservation Sales
Work from Home Jobs
2 – Full-Time Work from Home Jobs with Hilton
Hilton has been named the #2 Best Workplace for Millennials by
Fortune and Great Place to Work.
Hilton has full-time and part-time work-from-home positions. Customer service jobs start at $11/hr. Reservation sales specialists earn around $11-$14/hr.
How much money can you make working from home?
Full-time work-from-home jobs at the Hilton pay a base salary + incentives like medical and dental insurance. Hilton also offers a Member and Family Travel Program that provides reduced hotel room rates at many of their hotels for their workers and their family.
Check the availability of Hilton jobs from home at
https://jobs.hilton.com/us/en/career-areas-wfh
From the Company:
The base pay for this position is $11 per hour. Upon successful completion of training, you will also be eligible for our incentive programs. Incentives are paid monthly and, once you are fully up to speed after training, can expect an average incentive payout of $250 per month in the first year.
Our incentives are based on individual performance in both sales and partner transfers. Individual incentive payouts will fluctuate up or down based on business seasonality and personal performance.
3 – American Express
To find work-from-home jobs with American Express, go to their website and put “virtual” in the search tool.
When doing a search for “virtual,” I found positions for virtual customer care professionals, virtual platinum customer care professionals, human resource jobs, virtual travel consultants, account development managers, and more.
Visit the American Express website.
4- Customer Support Work from Home Jobs with Wayfair
Wayfair has virtual jobs for people who are located in certain areas. I found openings for a virtual customer service specialist (Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Texas, Nevada), remote customer service specialist (Missouri, Minnesota, Kansas) virtual team managers/customer sales and service.
Search The Wayfair website for the words “remote” and “virtual” to find work-from-home jobs at the Wayfair website at https://www.wayfair.com/careers. Wayfair jobs are also announced via Glassdoor and Upwork.
Get freelance, part-time, full-time, entry-level, executive level
work-from-home jobs
Find Remote and Flexible Jobs with FlexJobs today!
5 – Chat and Email Support, Online Support Agent, Customer Experience Agent, and More with Everlane
Everlane sells quality clothing online. They often have part-time and full-time freelance work opportunities, including jobs as online support associates, customer experience agents, and technical designers. Some are remote jobs and others are partial remote jobs with some office time.
I also found remote, part-time and freelance work, and Jobs with Everlane at Flexjobs and Glassdoor.
See https://www.flexjobs.com/jobs/telecommuting-jobs-at-everlane.
Find Remote and Flexible Jobs with FlexJobs today!
As a part-time CX online support agent, you’ll work remotely, answering questions from customers through email or live chat. You’ll troubleshoot issues like lost packages and damaged items, provide advice, and become an expert on Everlane products.
Check job openings at https://www.everlane.com/.
Transcription Work from Home Jobs
6 – TranscribeMe
http://transcribeme.com/
http://transcribeme.com/transcription-jobs
TranscribeMe is #14 on Forbes‘ list of the best work-from-home jobs in 2019.
TranscribeMe! often has remote jobs, freelance jobs, flexible jobs, and work-from-anywhere jobs. They offer part-time, full-time and flexible schedules for data entry, transcription, translation, and editing jobs.
This company is well known for providing transcription services and recruiting transcriptionists no experience required. They offer transcription in several languages and employ transcriptionists worldwide.
You don't need transcription experience to work for them but you have to pass their test. Their test is easier than that of similar companies. The company uses crowdsourcing. This means that you'll typically transcribe short audio files between 8 and 60 seconds long.
See my detailed review at
https://generaltranscriptionworkfromhome.com/blog/transcription-jobs-for-beginners-with-transcribeme/
If you are interested in learning more about transcription work from home, sign up for my FREE TRANSCRIPTION MINI-COURSE to find out if transcription is the right kind of work for you.
7 – Tigerfish Transcribing
Tigerfish Transcribing is an established transcription company that provides general, legal, and medical transcription. You don't need transcription experience to work for them. But you must be a US citizen or legal resident, have a good typing speed, accurate spelling and punctuation skills, and follow their style guide. If have those qualifications, you can apply with Tigerfish Transcribing and take the test. Their test is not easy.
You can read my review of Tigerfish here.
Customer Service, Support
and Call Center Agent Positions
8 – LiveOps Agent
LiveOps has many customer support positions. Jobs with this company range from inbound calling to insurance sales, claims, and more. They work with many well-known companies and hire educated and experienced sales professionals.
9 – Sykes
SYKES was named #15 on the 2019 list of Top 100 Companies with Remote Jobs by FlexJobs! They have customer service representatives working from home, team leads, and support positions.
This company prides itself on hiring military spouses, retirees, and parents to work at home answering calls. They also hire in Canada and are especially looking for bilingual workers.
10 – Working Solutions
Working Solutions partners with clients from different industries, providing them with educated and experienced professionals. From the Company:
Our agent workforce is made up of highly qualified independent contractors. Agents like working for us as evidenced by our #1 rating on Glassdoor.
They often have sales and customer service representative jobs
11 – Blue Zebra
Blue Zebra Appointment Setting
Blue Zebra Appointment Setting is a leading appointment-setting company. They are always seeking qualified cold-calling appointment setters.
They hire professionals for cold calling and appointment setting, B2B. This job entails cold calling or prospecting to get quality leads and set appointments for their clients.
All positions are work-from-home, telecommute, and independent contractor positions. See their requirements at their site.
12 – Travel Outlook
Travel Outlook
Travel Outlook provides voice reservation services for a select group of hotels.
As a work-from-home reservations specialist, you'll receive incoming reservation calls that are routed to you and you'll take reservations for hotel rooms.
Even though you'll work from home, you'll be an employee – not an independent contractor. This company received 4 stars from Glassdoor.
From the company:
We are a virtual company, which means that we all work from home offices. We take pride in the fact that in our industry, we’re the best – the first call center to be certified by the Kennedy Training Network, and answering calls with Forbes quality standards.
Teaching Jobs from Home
13 – VIPKid
Become an Online Teacher / Online ESL Teacher
Earn up to $22/hr. teaching English online.
VIPKID offers ESL services to children in China and focuses on providing high-quality English education for children up to eight years old. Teachers teach one-on-one English classes to children in China through the company's online platform.
Teachers can work from their home or from anywhere and choose their own schedule. They can teach as many or as few hours as they prefer.
VIPKID offers a competitive salary, ongoing paid training, and professional development opportunities. The pay with VIPKid is great (up to $22/hour).
VIPKid is mentioned in the top 50 Innovative Company by FastCompany and is on the Forbes Flexjobs Top 100 Remove work companies.
14 – Elevate K-12
If you have a teaching certificate and teaching experience, you can teach online. While you have some control over your schedule, Elevate K-12 asks that you are available between 8AM and 4PM each day.
This company partners with schools and school districts to provide live, online instruction and manages the instructional quality and outcomes for students.
15 – Ed2go Network
https://www.ed2go.com/TeachWithUs.aspx?tab=Introduction
You need a degree to teach. With this company you can write and develop courses and get online teaching jobs. The kinds of jobs that are available vary but they are always taking applications.
How much money you can make will vary too but they say on their site not to quit your day job. You can combine this with other opportunities to make a full-time income.
16 – ETS
http://www.ets.org/careershttp://www.ets.org/scoring_opportunities
ETS offers scoring and writing jobs from home. You’d be scoring advance placement tests and other types of proctored tests that students take for advancement or certification. The website says that they offer employee positions. When I searched their site for “remote” jobs, I didn't see any results for work-from-home jobs.
All the companies mentioned here are all legitimate companies that offer real opportunities to work from home. Some take experienced workers while others will take new people too. Hopefully, you can find a work-from-home jobs from this post that will work for you.
Another Way to Teach: Create and sell your own courses
If you can teach a skill (e.g. writing, marketing, painting, etc), you can create your own courses and sell them on online platforms such as Udemy and Thinkific.
Healthcare Telecommuting Jobs
17 – UnitedHealth Group
https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com
UnitedHealth Group offers a variety of telecommuting positions in healthcare, including senior customer service representative, clinical administrator coordinator, client service specialist, marketing specialist, payment integration product manager, and software engineer.
Telecommute jobs with UnitedHealth Group are often listed on Flexjobs, indeed, ZipRecruiter, Glassdoor, and Linkedin.
18 – Remote and Flexible Jobs with Google
Flexjobs mentions the following on their job board:
“Google jobs include flexible work options for part-time, freelance, temporary, and up to 100% remote opportunities.
At the time I searched Flexjobs for Google jobs, there were no remote jobs with Google listed at Flexjobs. Past flexible jobs at Google include several jobs as Field Sales Representatives, Account Representatives, Account Executives, and Technical Account Managers.
You can find remote positions and more at FlexJobs.
Technology Jobs
19 – aPPEN
Current remote jobs at Appen
From the company: We are a global leader in the development of high-quality, human annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. We partner with the world’s leading technology companies to improve their machine learning based
When you join Appen, you’ll be part of a collaborative, diverse organization, where we value entrepreneurship, and enjoy a flexible work environment. We look for a variety of skill sets, from those who use social media regularly to candidates who have college degrees in linguistics.
Appen has tons of remote jobs worldwide and is seeking candidates in different countries and languages for a variety of work-from-home opportunities. These opportunities range from simple surveys that can be completed in less than one hour to ongoing projects that last for months or longer.
Remote jobs anywhere include work from home search engine evaluators, social media evaluators, speech evaluators, bilingual english/spanish linguists, linguistic consulting, data collection
and annotation, transcribers, translators, linguists, internet analysts and more
Appen was recognized by FlexJobs as #1 on their list of the top 100 companies that offer remote jobs in 2019.
20 – Dell Technologies
https://www.flexjobs.com/jobs/telecommuting-jobs-at-dell
Dell Technologies is a multinational technology company that offers multiple opportunities for flexible work and remote jobs through its Connected Workplace program. Flexible work arrangements provided by Dell Technologies include flexible schedules, remote work, job-sharing, part-time schedules, and compressed workweeks.
Remote positions with Dell include accountant managers, sales executives, account executives, systems consultants, command center specialists, data engineers, user experience researchers, and many more.
From Flexjobs
This company utilizes pipeline listings in their hiring process. This means a single job posting can represent a substantial number of openings, potentially hiring hundreds or thousands of candidates for a single listing.
The company recognizes that technology is driving workplace transformation and making it possible to work from almost anywhere, so it provides team members with the freedom to choose “the work style that best fulfills their needs on the job and in their personal lives.”
Learn more about Dell's Connected Workplace by watching this video.
Work from Home Resources
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Thank you for your feedback Susan. Good luck in your work from home venture.
Thanks for a great advice 🙂