Just a few months after the first case of the deadly COVID 19 outside China was announced, social distancing and lockdown became common household terms. Everyone has no choice but to stay at home. A couple of weeks became months; roads that were once filled with cars and commuters now look like ghost towns. Working from home suddenly became the new norm.
For those who are still looking for work options while on lockdown, here is a list of companies that offer real work from home jobs.
10 Companies That Offer Real Work From Home Jobs
1. VIPKID
VIPKID is a company that pays ESL teachers from the US and Canada to teach English lessons to kids in China via video calls.
To date, there are 100, 000 teachers that connect to more than 700,000 students through this platform. Kids aged 3-14 attend a 25-28 minute class online. Teachers get to set their own schedule with no commitment and no minimum hours to get paid between 15-22 USD per hour, for two 25-28 minute classes.
Interested to join? Here’s how you may start teaching with VIPKid:
- Sign up to create an account and complete a simple form.
- Do a short demo lesson.
- Do a mock class with a current teacher (they’ll help prep you for the real thing).
- Sign your contract and get teaching!
2. TTEC
TTEC helps global brands provide a great experience to their customers, build customer loyalty, and grow their business. The company also promises to provide exceptional experiences for their employees.
TTEC Home associates use the company’s technology to support and assist customers with a range of customer service, technical as well as sales needs. These roles require them to help customers over the phone, via chat, or on social media.
Flexible jobs offered by the company include: Bilingual Customer Service Representative.Technical Accounting and Financial Reporting, temporary trainer, Temporary Team Lead, Inside Sales Representative and Customer Service Representative.
Thinking how employees at TTEC feels about working there? Here’s what one of the Home Agents have to say:
I love working for TTEC@home. I get to interact with and help others from the comfort of my own home. (Have you ever been in Houston traffic rush hour? That says it all!) Plus, they have some of the most amazing people I’ve ever had the privilege of working with. They aren’t just here to draw a paycheck. They truly care about their co-workers. I work many miles from the brick and mortar buildings, but I have a sense of security that my coworkers have my back and I’m not alone. — Karen G.
Head over to this link to check the available flexible jobs available at TTEC.
3. DELL
Dell was formed by customer-obsessed, industry-leading visionaries. The company promises to offer unparalleled growth and development opportunities to their team members.
This unique family of businesses provides essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future, transform IT and also protect their most important asset – INFORMATION. DELL Technologies services customers across 180 countries with the industry’s most comprehensive and innovative portfolio from the edge to the core to the cloud.
This link lists remote jobs offered to job seekers from the following locations: Belgium, Canada, Mexico, Israel, the Netherlands, Romania, UK, and the USA.
4. KELLY SERVICES
Kelly Services, an American office staffing company, has about 1,100 employees at its corporate headquarters in Troy, Michigan, and around 6,800 employees globally. The company was founded by William Russell Kelly in Detroit on October 7, 1946, and first operated as the Russell Kelly Office Service. It was renamed Kelly Girl Service in 1957, and then Kelly Services® in 1966 to reflect the growing services of the company.
Today, the company offers a full suite of outsourcing, consulting, and staffing solutions to their clients all over the world from over a 70-year heritage of dynamic talent innovations.
Here are just a few of the awards and recognition that this company earned through the years:
- Kelly Outsourcing and Consulting (KellyOCG) in India named a Great Place to Work-Certified company.
- Listed as one of Flexjobs 2020‘s “Top 100 Companies for Remote Jobs” (listed for the seventh year in a row, landing the #6 spot)
- Received the 2019 Thompson Hine Diversity Achievement Award.
- SeniorAdvice.com Names Kelly to their list of “America’s Best Companies for Seniors”
- 2018 Intel SCQI award for Supplier Achievement with distinguished performance in the Safety category
- America’s Top Corporations for Women’s Business Enterprises (WBEs) Award
5. WILLIAMS-SONOMA, INC.
Williams-Sonoma is a multichannel specialty retailer of quality home products that was established in 1956 by Chuck Williams. The company operates retail stores throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. It is noted to be amongst the largest e-commerce retailers in the U.S.
Eligible employees receive competitive benefits, including a 401(k) plan, healthcare, employee discounts, quarterly sample sales, commuter benefits, as well as time off for volunteering. Williams-Sonoma offers remote and flexible work options and usually hires in the areas of art and creative, marketing, customer service, retail, and manufacturing.
Brands that the company offer include some of the most recognized names in home furnishings, such as Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, PBteen, West Elm, Williams Sonoma, Mark and Graham, and Rejuvenation.
6. WORKING SOLUTIONS
Working Solutions was founded in Dallas, Texas in 1996. The company provides on-demand customer service and sales agents who work from home. It serves the energy, retail, communications, travel, financial, and healthcare industries with expertise in customer-care operations, development, technology, recruiting, security, and analytics. Working Solutions values transparency and a healthy work-life balance for its contracted agents and employees.
The company maintains a network of more than 110,000 registered agents who work as independent contractors. It considers workforce scalability “critical to its foundation and the reason the company was created.” Working Solutions contracts with a range of independent agents who reflect the diversity in the customers and clients it serves, including military spouses, stay-at-home parents, career-change professionals, and seniors.
For flexible job opportunities across the US, visit this link.
7. LIVE OPPS
Companies all over the world has been relying on LiveOpps for its cloud contact center and customer service solutions since 2001. The company maintains offices in Dayton, Ohio; Portland, Oregon; and Redwood City, California, but its main headquarter is in Scottsdale, Arizona. LiveOpps frequently offers work from home opportunities in the areas of customer service, medical and health, insurance, and sales, and so on, to entry-level and experienced professionals with role-related skills and qualifications.
The company connects more than 20,000 independent home agents with businesses all over the world and has processed more than 100 million customer service interactions. It serves a variety of industries, including the financial, high-tech, retail, healthcare, and insurance sectors.
LiveOpps was recently awarded the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility. The company displays its dedication to environmental sustainability as it manages the “world’s largest cloud contact center,” that allows opportunities for reduced fuel consumption and office space expenses.
8. GO TRANSCRIPT
One of the largest online transcription and translation agency in the world, GoTranscript, was founded in 2006 in Edinburgh, Scotland. To date, the company has earned 1763 customer reviews and more than 20,000 happy customers.
9. CROWDSTRIKE
CrowdStrike is an award-winning, global provider of cloud-delivered security technology, threat intelligence, and next-generation endpoint protection that was founded in 2011. The company has received several industry recognition, including the following:
- Listed in Inc. 500‘s list of American’s Fastest-Growing Companies
- Forbes magazine’s Most Promising Companies
- Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500
- Distinguished for its innovative technology and business model
- Appointed one of MIT Technology Review Magazine’s 50 Smartest Companies
- Top 100 Finalist on Red Herring’s list of the most innovative companies in North America and Europe
This company is also considered as one of the Best Workplaces in Technology by the Great Place to Work Institute.
CrowdStrike has posted a wide variety of remote jobs, including flexible jobs in computer and IT, software development, project management, education and training, operations and so on.
Some remote jobs are open to applicants based anywhere in the US, while others are specific to U.S. cities and other countries like Australia, Germany, Romania, and the Netherlands.
Some of this company’s well-known clients are as follows: ADP, Shutterstock, Sony, Tribune Media, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sega, Natural Gas Partners (NGP), and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
For available jobs that can be done remotely, check out this page.
10. AMAZON
Amazon is the largest online retailer in the world. This Fortune 500 company offers traditional and e-books, furniture, household items, apparel, electronics, music, movies, and a wide variety of other products. Its Founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, continues to serve as chairman and president of what is now a content creator, e-commerce and publishing partner, development platform, and digital platform innovator.
Amazon employs around 92,000 employees all over the globe. It has offered part-time, seasonal, as well as remote job opportunities in the past. In addition to corporate, fulfillment center, and university employment, Amazon also maintains a work from home program designed to cater to international candidates who are qualified to work remotely.
Its clients also get to register for its Amazon Prime program for a minimal monthly fee to access exclusive benefits like free, two-day shipping on all Prime-eligible products and also access to an online library of streaming content. Those who would like to make money with Amazon, may opt to register a business, advertise products, self-publish, sell products, apps, and services through its platform.
This link lists the remote jobs at AMAZON at the moment.
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