Reputable Work at Home Options?

chuwo
Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:58:43 +0000

I work for a large insurance company and have been a full-time teleworker for five years. I’m a data analyst, and as long as I have a phone and a high-speed internet connection I can work from pretty much anywhere. My entire team is work-at-home, including my manager who is in another state, and some colleagues several time zones away. In my experience telework works best when all or most of the team-mates are work-at-home. I had a short-term assignment recently where I was the only work-at-home and everyone else was together in an office on the other side of the country. It was excruciating, and although they all bent over backwards to include me in their day-to-day, I was happy that turned out to be a limited assignment.

The company I work for is very supportive of telework, encourages it in fact (saves on real estate costs), with a goal of wanting a certain percentage of workers as WAH. There are a lot of WAH opportunities for nurses, especially if you are an RN. I don’t think any of them will be part-time though, there’s the rub.

You can PM me if you would like additional info