Imagine a commute that is just down the hallway, a few minutes from your favorite gourmet coffeepot and the Monday morning news. You plug in your headset to the phone, boot your computer, and begin taking calls for your client. After 30 minutes of call time, you move on to a scheduled break to tend to a few errands around the house. You get another cup of coffee, finish a few small household tasks, and return to your desk to begin taking calls again. Your schedule is flexible, and you can have all the breaks you need from the comfort of your own home. You’re paid anywhere from .00 to .00 an hour, and you work not just the hours – but the minutes – that you choose.
Sound like another work from home scam? Or simply too good to be true? Think again. The rise of homeshoring employers has paved the way to legitimate work-from-home careers that allow flexibility for a whole new workforce – including work at home moms and dads, caretakers, military spouses, people with unique medical needs and the differently abled.
So, what is homeshoring, exactly?
Homeshoring, in its simplest form, is the use of home-based employees by businesses, big and small, to handle their call center functions effectively with the use of home-based workers. Homeshoring companies have made the decision to keep their call centers virtual – but within their own parameters, country and control.
Homeshoring moves jobs out of high-overhead call centers and into the homes of US workers, rather than out of the country. Homeshoring cuts costs, but not corners, when it comes to saving money and creating valuable contacts with customers.
So who hires home-based workers for their call centers?
Homeshoring companies range from outsourcing partners (such as Convergys and LiveOps) to large corporations looking to save operating costs for their call center components. Companies such as JetBlue send their workers home and have an added benefit when weather problems force call overflows – they can call on their home-based workers to pick up the slack. Other companies outsource their calls to Business Process Outsourcing (BPO's) firms such as Alpine Access or LiveOps. Office Depot and Virginia Atlantic outsource their customer service needs to virtual agent call-center firms, which are often small or midsize businesses. The call centers then hire home-based workers or create independent contractor agreements. Some virtual call centers only hire home-based contractors with their own business set-up, so that their workers can operate under their own small corporations or LLC's.
Homeshoring also provides a flexible and adjustable workforce for companies that often are sent into chaos with call overflow. The flexibility work for employees, too. Often, a homeshoring agent can schedule work shifts in time periods as short as 15 minutes.
According to the Gartner group, 10% of all call centers in the US plan on employing home-based agents in the near future. There are currently 112,000 home-based agents in the U.S., according to IDC. By 2010, there 330,000 home-based workers are expected to be working in the US alone. Homeshoring is here to stay and is expected to become a standard practice for companies that need to find new ways to retain excellent employees at a fraction of the cost of maintaining a brick and mortar call center.
A search online can uncover dozens of companies that hire homeshoring workers, but the top homeshoring (and most competitive) employers are listed below:
• Alpine Access, www.alpineaccess.com
• Arise, www.arise.com
• LiveOps, www.liveops.com
• Convergys Corp., http://www.convergysworkathome.com/Convergys/HAP/re_agent.nsf/webform?OpenForm
• West Corp., http://www.westathome.com/
• InfoCision Management Corp., http://www.infocision.com/Careers/Pages/WorkFromHome.aspx
• Working Solutions, www.workingsolutions.com
Frequently Asked Questions
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QUESTION:
How is this website 'Projectatm.com', which provides workfromhome KPO related work. Has anyone taken this up
This is done by Ripples Infolink in Chennai with MoU from Ma-foi..Let me know anyone is working on this and is it authentic WorkFromHome opportunity-
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That is the fake one. If u want guide to earn money on net, try the info in,
http://www.geocities.com/gopi2net/
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What are the various fields that can provide some legitimate workfromhome opprtunities?-
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Here is the web site that can clarify your doubts about legitimate work from home opportunities and to know how can you enter a work from home business try this link http://www.mlm123.net.
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What are the opportunities for students to workfromhome?-
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you will find many work from home opportunities for students for that just visithttp://www.workfrmhome.org
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Can anybody suggest me the tips to succed in Workfromhome?-
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To get success in work from buissiness you must follow some ways like advertising your produtct .
For more information follow this link http://www.mlm123.net.
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How can I search for offers to workfromhome on the net?-
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There are a number of sources that are avilable on the internet like the gollge search and other searching portals.But if You are searching solely and mainly for the work from home opportunities I suggest this site as the best:http://www.mlm123.net.details check in this link http://www.mlm123.net.
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Workfromhome - Can someone please tell me the best way to work from home? Please no MLM, not interested.?-
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There are many ways to make money legally from home. Here are some ideas:1. Do e-books to sell
2. Do data entry on the net
3. design websites / blogs and sell them for money
4. becoming an A-list pro blogger
5. writing essays and writing literature papers and exam papers for students and teacher,s..,.
6. make money with google adsense, if you have the time and effort and inclination.
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I need the email adress of 'crdnlfn' i want to know the information abt workfromhome without investment
plz try to help me-
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for both of them just go to http://www.google.com and you will find the answer of your question.
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what are the companies that are hiring pepole to workfromhome?-
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There are several companies that are hiring people to work from home.The best being the Elance company.You can know more about the companies that provide work from home opportunities and their terms and conditions just log onto http://www.mlm123.net.
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Have anyone benefitted by workfromhome online?
When workfromhome promises 100 dollars a day why do they charge a membership fee? Why they dont detect the fee from the promised income? Are they not sure of their promise?
its surprising that none have benefitted form workfromhome online among the whole lot of yahooians. i havent got a single affirmative answer.-
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Usually something that requires you to pay up front for a job is a scam. I wouldn't trust it.
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Can I get a workfromhome job in the governement sector?-
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yes There are a number of work from home opportunities from the governement.There are a number of fields in which the goverenement is offering the work from home jobs.you can select the field you like depending on your interest by just clicking on this link http://www.mlm123.net.
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Has anyone heard about or know of Angela Penbrooks (workfromhome@urtica.net) offer? Is it a scam? or what?
This is in RE: processing at home (rebates) from thousands of companies that she says offers $ for filing said rebates up to ea. is it legit or ? Thank you!-
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it's a scam.
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what is a good workfromhome which is avilable worldwide?-
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There a number of work from home jobs avilable worldwide.And some of the best work from home jobs that are avilable worldwide can be found this sitehttp://www.workfrmhome.org
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what does workfromhome.com sell? what is the business?
I heard the commercial on the radio, my dad was listening to Glenn Beck and Glenn brought up workfromhome.com ... I went to the website and filled out the "necessary info" and it didn't say what the business is! SOOO what is it?-
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I don't want to say they are con men (although I WILL say Glenn Beck is), but they will try to get you to pay 40 bucks for a training package. Here's an excerpt from their site, www.wfhbusinesscenter.com/index.htm:"If after reading this, you still feel you need 'more information' before you purchase a guaranteed decision and training package, then chances are that this is not for you and you wouldn't meet our qualifications. If this is the case, then we wish you well, good luck in finding what you're looking for and thank you for visiting our website. Please do not e-mail a request for 'more information' as our time is needed to process legitimate orders and we will be unable to reply to mere inquiries."
A bit suspicious.
If you are interested in a work from home business, you might try a franchise that will explain their concept fully. Some franchise sites are:
http://www.homebasedfranchises.com
http://www.franchisesolutions.comIn any case, good luck.
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Are there any governement workfromhome jobs?-
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yes There are a number of work from home opportunities from the governement.There are a number of fields in which the goverenement is offering the work from home jobs.you can select the field you like depending on your interest by just clicking on this linkhttp://www.workfrmhome.org
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Are the advertisements offering fantastic money for doing simple dataentry/workfromhome projects/survey real?-
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NO!!!!
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Is www.workfromhome.ph.com a legitimate business? Can one make P 7000/day as their ad claims?
Ad from Job Finder, March 16, 2009-
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Do you know what a pyramid scheme is?
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http://google-workfromhome.blogspot.com, What is website?-
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It's a scam and it is NOT affiliated with Google in any way.
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How does work from home sites work?
How do sites like workfromhome.com and others that other like it work? I'm a teen, would i be able to use it as a way to get money?-
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How much money have you made online?
I create videos and write articles for Associated Content. They pay upfront - per submission. I've earned quite a lot with them lately.This shows the screen shot of what I've earned with AC as of 06-09-2007:
http://workfromhome.shoutpost.com/12372/so-how-much-have-i-made-with-acAnd this is a link to my videos and articles on AC:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/rafael-
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Right now I'm earning around ,000 USD Per Month depending of course of traffic and sales but that's about my average. I'm using as variety of different resources to do this but mainly affiliate marketing with some online wholesaleing and dropshipping as well as e-book sales. I'm not going to link you to my direct website but I do have a personal review-site with many of the oppurtunities I use aimed at providing an honest outlook on some home business oppurtunities.
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Where is a cheap & relatively safe place to stay for 2-3 months? Mexico/Brazil/Thailand.....?
I am looking for a cheap town/city to stay for 2-3 months for a holiday as I workfromhome. I have considered Acapulco(Mexico) but am thinking of other places? (Im Australian in Canada)-
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We lived in a great place in Bogota for three months and it was very inexpensive. What a great city! And, I understand that Cali and Medellin are even better, despite the hype from times past.Get a copy of Lonely Planet Guide to Colombia and see what the author says.
Lonely Planet Guides started in Oz, BTW.
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how to find a workathome program?
many workfromhome program are scams,
how to find a certificated,real,reliable ones to make money?
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I've used http://payperpost.com and http://socialspark.com and http://smorty.com
In my experience, they've been reliable and I've made ,000 from the sites. However, in order to use the above sites, you need a blog of some sort. They pay you to write advertisements on your blog. You can make between - 0 per advertisement you write.
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Does this website look legit to you for making money?
Im not sure if its legit, it seems like it but im not sure!!
heres the link
http://newsdaily7.com/jobs/workfromhome.php?&t202id=61799&t202kw=new160kct2-
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Emergency Video Recorder Manual Help Please?
I have 2 Video Recorders that there manuals have disappeared. I'm looking for anyone that can either email me a copy of the manuals or if anyone has a link to a Free download to a manual. Here is my model #'s. Sony Handycam CCD-SC5 & SamSung SCL700. WorkFromHome@Ameriplan.net Thank You!!-
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did you try going to sonystyle.com
then on the top of the page you will
see Customer Care and then on the
far right of that page you can search
for manuals by model #'s
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is this work at home thing a scam?
http://workfromhome-job.com/i was wondering if anyone knew if this was a scam or not?
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This is not a work at home job. This is a company you hire to find a work at home job for you. It looks like you fill out something telling them your skills, then they find the right work at home position for you. I have no idea if it is a scam, I just know it is not a work at home job.
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how do i know if a website ,true or false?
i want to participate in a (workfromhome )website but how do i know that are not lies?-
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If it's on the internet theres a good chance that it's fake.Remember, if it's too good to be true...then it's usually false.
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Does anyone else have an ebay account and sell on ebay?
This is how you can start your own business on ebay:Directions:
1. Goto www.ebay.com and open up a sellers account if you do not already have one. It is a proven fact that people who sell on ebay either part time or full time make more extra money than anyone else at a flee market. Ebay is big time and selling on ebay is near free (you pay 25 cents an auction). Ok after you open up your free ebay seller account :
2. Visit http://www.subliminalsales.com/workfromhome.html and get the ultimate work from home kit for .00 so you will have plenty of products to sell. There is over 100 products for you to sell with the ultimate work from home kit so you will always have something that someone wants. There are ebooks, software programs,games,and other goodies in the ultimate work from home kit that you can resell and all of the contents have been sold before. People make all kinds of money everyday without leaving their houses on ebay by selling software and ebooks...
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eBay is the largest online marketplace and one of the most popular ways to earn an income from home with a PC and internet connection. Selling on eBay is inexpensive and easy to start. Ebay has a number of tools for sellers to maximise sales. These are eBay Pulse, Hot items report, merchandising calendar. By sourcing products at a low price, you can increase your profit. Check out http://tinyurl.com/rygsh for more details.
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Working from home, can anyone help?
Does anyone know of a site, THAT IS NOT A SCAM OR MONEY RISK, that is a work from home site? I was going with workfromhome.net but they switched owners over and are not owned by the same people. I moved to a new state a few months ago and I'm having a horrible time finding work here. I'm not looking for something you dump money into. I know there are sites out there for telemarketing and such from your home for stay at home moms, I'm just not having luck at finding them. Does anyone know of some good work at home sites to recommend or some solutions? Thanks a lot!
Man west is the company that I was applying for before I moved but they are not hiring for my current location T_T I am not interested in a job that requires you to put money into even including avon, granted you can make money with avon it also requires more time than most people have and you don't actually make much money doing it. I need a steady job from home that doesn't require travel-
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I know a couple places that an article was written on home based jobs. I'm not sure about telemarketing where you call out, but I think my friends who have worked for them said it's incoming calls. Other places that have data type entry, but you have to have 40 WPM and a few other things in order to qualify for the position. A few different places named in this article. If you can qualify for their positions, then you should look into applying there.
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