Finding a work from home job proving difficult

It is proving difficult to find work from home. And if I want to work part time too that is even more difficult. I use a couple of job search web sites to hunt for work.

These have "work from home" or "home based" jobs. There are also IT jobs for which I have the required skills and experience, but so far not both. I apply for several jobs for which I am qualified per week using jobsite, stating that I wish to work from home but could spend 1 day a week on site. I rarely get any feedback. This may also be the case for applicants who do not wish to work from home.

When I speak to an agency and say that I want to work from home (but that I could do 1 day per weak on site) they sound pretty unhopeful. If I add that Id like to work part time (e.g. 28 hours per week), it becomes even less likely that they can find work for me.

I accept that some jobs just can’t be done from home e.g. if they require regular use of paper documents, telephone answering etc (although there are call centres which use home workers or tele-workers with calls routed to the employee's home somehow).

For people working from home, there is the temptation to keep on working, especially if deadlines have to be met. That is ok if there are also times of less work which even themselves out. Apparently reports suggest that home workers are more productive and more committed to the employer than office based staff. It can be useful for the employer to have someone who can work out of hours and it can be argued that they save on accommodation although this could be insignificant if only a small number of employees work from home regularly.

There is the issue of trust i.e. the employer has to trust the employee to get on with work. This can make it easier to work from home for an employer who already knows you.

It is lovely to avoid commuting every day. I think different people like different aspects of home working e.g. working in jeans and t shirt. Some of the possible disadvantages for employees include the lack of social contact, being overlooked for promotion or training because of being out of sight.

A particular job search web site currently has 31,621 IT jobs within the last 7 days. A search for "work from home" returns 75. A search for "home based" returns 119.

Some of the "work from home" and "home based" jobs require attendance on site for more than 1 day per week.

Oh well... I guess I’ll keep searching.

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you have to be careful stuffing evelopes etc can often end up a scam, tread carefully

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lisa - 11-Oct-10 22:50

This really made me laugh, the agencies at present, have no jobs for "working from home" or otherwise. Every job that comes up for whatever site, all the agencies are running after it and offering the lowest price possible, which you cannot blame them! That is why the same job is advertised on nearly every different site, differently worded though. I have sat for the last 6 months trying to get a job and every day I have a different agency ringing me up and then asking permission to forward my cv and then nothing. Obviously they went in to high priced and got nowhere. There are hardly any jobs out there at present anyway, so working from home is not an option, if it were I would be doing it! Good luck anyway but you are a bit deluded!

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Maza - 1-Jul-10 13:17

Maybe if your attitude wasn't I want to stay at home and pretend to work rather than do a proper job companies may be willing to get you in the door for a interview. How anyone can think they can speak to a recruitment consultant and state 'Oh I don't fancy driving in to work, is there any jobs where I can sit in my under crackers all day and watch Jeremy Kyle, while feigning work. Pretty Please'. Most companies that do let employees work from home generally like them to work from the companies site for a period of time first so they can see how you perform in a realistic environment. Some people really are deluded especially in today's economic climate

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dannydoesdallas - 23-Jul-09 13:55

im looking for homeworkers to input data on computer alan.forrest2@gmail.com

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homeworker - 23-Jul-09 12:28

I am looking for a job addressing envelopes or stuffin envelopes

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jo jo - 27-Oct-08 17:14

I've worked from home for the last two years and it's great, I have done internet marketing, setting up ppc campaigns for local companies, I have been a UK agent/administrator for a stock photo agency, I've done medical audio transcription, I've done telephone research.

I think the big issue is people getting their head around what the terms for working from home all mean and critically analysing their own skill sets and the skills required for the jobs. Right now I'm concentrating more with freelance working and I use http://www.jobsforfreelancers.com which has freelance jobs, real home working jobs and has good information on other things I'm interested in to do with homeworking.

Working from home isn't an easy option, you do need a proper space to work from, even if that means setting it up and putting it away every day. You need to be quite strict with yourself about working, setting routines and not leaving things until tomorrow.

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Homeworker - 14-Aug-08 13:01

You need to get a grip, working from home means..............getting up at 10am (maybe), watching crap on TV (in bed I suspect), having a bath, making yourself some lunch and then around about 3pm switching on the computer to 'check' e-mails......... but making sure its swicthed off to watch golden balls easy really, wish I could 'work from home' as well.

Biggest load of tosh ever working from home, get up early and get yourself into work

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Lottie - 29-Jul-08 12:53

Am looking for a job like Addressing Envelopes or stuffing envelopes

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hayleyk - 29-Jul-08 02:29

Am looking for a job like Addressing Envelopes or stuffing envelopes something on the computer work

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Belysagal - 14-Apr-08 08:36

hi iam looking for work at home like packing any thing

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manjit - 26-Jan-08 13:36

You might find it easier if you were to work in an office for a while first, and build up that trusted relationship. I have been with my employer for 8 years now, and I now have an 'agile' work environment - meaning I can park myself at any desk in the office, or work from home if I need to.

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Devon girl - 15-May-07 12:57

It is nice to know that I am not the only one struggling. I am in the position that I have a 10 year old, for whom I want to be around when not at school. I also find that I am so bored at home during the day and have all these hours free that I could work. I credit controlled for 10 years & have been in an office environoment, around all ages, this has given me great experience but the moment you talk to the agency and say you want part-time, term time the shutters go down.They don't realise that we are very reliable and would take a job like this on for many years!

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DT - 24-Jan-07 10:29

What a load of clap-trap! Workinf from home is the most productive way to work. Only idiots and stupid, pathetic managers are too short-sighted to see this and want you in the office to play silly emire building games.

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Jon Morgan - 12-Dec-06 23:53

I started a home based PR consultancy last year, because I wanted to work from home. I enjoyed being my own boss, but was getting stressed out over finding enough work to pay the bills and chasing late payments. I also didn't have enough money set aside for a pension, which was worrying. I then 'discovered' network marketing five months ago, which I have found to be just the right thing for me. I have already made some good progress and will be earning a very good income from showing other people how to build a significant part-time income, without affecting what they are already doing. The best thing about it is that I will be able to earn a 'royalty income' in the near future, which I can leave to my kids, should anything happen to me.

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Cilente - 12-Dec-06 14:46

I wanted to work from home on a part-time basis, and the only way I could do this was to go self-employed. It was a big gamble, but thankfully, it seems to be working out. It is frustrating when employers are so short-sighted and inflexible. It was assumed that my job couldn't be done this way, but I'm proving that it can.

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SW - 11-Dec-06 11:23

My supervisor gives each worker a set amount of work to do in a set amount of time,just get it finished.With some of us working at home the office atmosphere is quieter and less hectic which works better for her.

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dragon42 - 4-Dec-06 03:45

As an employer I am interested in the concept but it is difficult to find those with the specific skills needed who might be interested and if you only need the odd one or two working from home then it can be expensive to find them. I am a director of a company (and work from home myself) that needs at least one person to work part-time from home but we need someone with good typing skills and preferably with experience in preparing important documents. There has to be such people out there who want to work just a few hours a week from home but they are not easy to find. If you know anyone who might be interested by all means get them to email associates@richmondehouse.com and if we are still looking we would love to hear from them.

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Bob Cullen - 29-Nov-06 16:58

My husband works from home (hes self employed). Its OK in one way, but he used to spend mist of his day answering phone calls from cold callers (we now have resigtered with he mail preference service).
His work time seems to manage to creep into evenings and weekends when hes trying to meet a deadline and the biggest drawback is that he never gets 'home from work', meaning his customers seem to think that they can ring him (to pick his brains or for a chat) or call in at all hours, so this can be rather frustrating for the family. So you can be taken advantage of more when you work from home, (especially if you are kind natured).
The other thing he misses is the social side, as most days the only people he sees is his family.
Homeworking can be great, but you must be disciplined and you must realise that boundaries need to be set and that its not all 'fun and games', it needs some serious consideration.

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Kiwigirl - 7-Feb-06 10:42

Why not have a room that you do all the work in with one or more cams veiwing you doing your work, then sending your hours of work to your employer.

If you work from home you are reducing resorce wasting and less travel (meaning travel money on fuel or transit) thus if there is an accident in traffic and/or transit and you are holded in that area by force while you are on your way to work, you can loose your job. If you worked from home turned on the news and see that transit and/or a traffic jam is showned on the news you have nothing to worry about because you worked from home.

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BohnnyK. - 29-Dec-05 03:41

Working from home.. translate, thats like a holiday 90% of the time and whilst you're in the office for a day you do your 10% of work for the week.

Nice...

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G.R. - 1-Dec-05 20:37

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