10 Companies that are Seeking Virtual Employees, You Could be Next!
Pay can be better than most as well. With earning potentials as high as $25 an hour for just a few hours a week. You can deny it, working from home could be GREAT for many of us who are tired of those boring, same ole 9-5s. We have found some companies among FlexJobs that are hiring everyday for people looking to work from home.
10 Companies Hiring Virtual Employees
Basecamp: “Basecamp is a company spread out across 26 different cities around the world. Our office is in Chicago, but everyone at Basecamp is free to live and work wherever they want.”
Batchbook: This company helps small businesses manage and grow customer relationships. And it’s happy to let staff work from home, but it has a few rigid requirements: “Must love the Internet, having a flexible schedule, and donut cake.”
Buffer: One of the perks listed on Buffer’s jobs page is that staffers can “move or live anywhere” and its values explicitly say, “You choose to be at the single place on Earth where you are the happiest, and most productive, and you are not afraid to find out where that is.” A beautiful approach to work and life.
FlexJobs: Yes, FlexJobs is a completely virtual team! We have 40 staffers working from home offices throughout every time zone in the U.S. Most of us also have flexible schedules so we can better balance our lives. FlexJobs’ Director of Client Services, Jeremy Anderson, knows why working from home is so great: “It’s hard to boil it down to one thing for me, but I would sum it up in one word: freedom. Freedom from a commute and from office politics. The freedom to get work done without the typical office distractions.”
Lullabot: This proud distributed team details some of the “highly effective habits of our intercontinental team,” including getting dressed for work (even when you work from home), drawing boundaries between work and home life, taking time to be active every day, and taking advantage of the comforts of working from home. The company also openly admits that they’re all nerds, but swears that’s completely unrelated from the fact that they all work from home.
Mozilla: The maker of Firefox, Mozilla is a nonprofit organization with a distributed team and a lot of remote workers around the world. As the company says, “We have 13 global offices and people working in more than 30 countries. If you work best from home, that’s not a problem. We can support you anywhere.” Most of the open jobs on the company’s career page right now are remote positions.
Tessitura Network: Specializing in technology services for the arts and culture industry, this organization is committed to virtual working. “We are virtual and open to our team living and working where they want; thus, we do not force people to move.”
You Need a Budget: Founded by a husband when he and his wife were broke students just starting a family, You Need a Budget (YNAB) is a budgeting system and service that aims to help people understand and control their finances. The team, now with 25 people, is distributed all throughout the U.S. and even Switzerland.
Zapier: Zapier is open to job candidates from any location as long as they’re based in the U.S. As the company says, “We’re open to a lot of different working arrangements, as well. Zapier is a distributed team, currently spread across Missouri, Colorado, California, Illinois, and Nebraska. We have worked with full timers, part timers, contractors, and interns.” Zapier is one of FlexJobs’ virtual companies that offers a variety of flexible work options.
These companies are primarily virtual, yet there are plenty of big name companies that offer virtual employment opportunities nationwide. You can also check out a cool little site called FlexJobs Guide to the Best Companies for Flexible Jobs, a searchable database of over 23,000 pre-screened, legitimate employers that embrace and offer telecommuting and other flexible work options.
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