Types of work at home positions that fit into many different categories may
include work at home massage therapists, work at home physicians and other
health care workers and consultants, and work at home trainers.
Other work at home jobs related the manufacturing and/or wholesale industry include
technical support personnel who provide phone support from home for a wide range
of products and services such as internet service, computer and other hardware,
cable, phone service, and much more. Technical support people who are
allowed to work at home usually communicate by the internet and phone and are
allowed to work virtually 100% of the time at home, being required to attend
occasional meetings at the main office. Help Desk personnel are related to
technical support personnel but can provide a wide range of various types of
help to clients on their own internal customers (who also work for the company)
or to external customers.
Virtual call center agents can take a virtually unlimited number of types of
calls at home and are used to handle sales and service for everything from auto
club membership to airline reservations. Most call center agents who work
at home are required to log in a certain number of hours per week and at
pre-agreed times, but they are often free to select the times that they work.
Customer service representatives are also sometimes allowed to work at home.
Today's phone technology allows calls to be re-directed
in seconds. This technology obviously helps the work at home movement
continue to grow. In fact, hundreds of thousands of employees who work at
home work for telephone-related companies.
Virtual administrative support personnel for all types of businesses can include virtual secretaries,
virtual assistants (the home-based version of the traditional administrative
assistant), research assistants and many others. Some of these work at
home positions also require time with the employer in one on one communication,
but these types of support personnel can provide a great deal of service to
his/her employer by working independently and communicating bottom line
information to his/her employer by fax, phone and/or the internet.
Other support personnel might include legal assistants, researchers, data
entry clerks, envelope stuffers, analysts, special event coordinators, travel
planners, public relations personnel, general assistants, freelance artists,
appointment setters, reservationists, writers, consultants and many more.
While many sales people still need "face time" with their customers in order
to do their jobs effectively, they are still able to work at home for a major
part of their job because they can make calls, analyze information, do research,
put together proposals and send emails and other correspondence from home.
Thousands of sales people do work at home. Sometimes these sales people
are independent representatives who may represent many different companies,
although many other traditional sales people are also working at home. The
support staff for the sales person... the telemarketers, appointment setters,
lead qualifiers, order takers, secretaries and sales assistants also work at
home very frequently.
The human resource department of many different companies can include recruiters,
clerical workers, background checkers and verifiers who are
frequently allowed to work at home.
Technical computer-related work at home jobs may include such positions as
programmers, system analysts, network technicians, internet security
consultants, systems analyst, systems operators.
Read more about work at home jobs in real estate.
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work at home jobs in the financial industry.
Read more about creative
work at home jobs.
Read more about work at home jobs in insurance.
Read more about work at home jobs in
the services industry.
