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Work-at-Home Company Profile: Fonemed

Formed in 1996, Fonemed provides telephone triage services to physician practices, managed-care organizations, third party administrators, disease management providers, private employers and associations throughout North America.

Summer Activities: Water Play

Water play for kids sounds messy but is fun for kids. So much so it is a great summer activity for a work at home mom to add to her list of things to do this summer.

WAHM Kids’ Activities: Bubbles and Balloons

Bubbles and balloons are kids activities that can add some fun to a WAHM kids' day. They're inexpensive and don't need a lot of help. What else could a WAHM want from a toy?

Work-at-Home Job Profile: Google Ads Quality Rater

Work at home for Google as a Google ads quality rater. These legitimate work from home jobs are often bilingual jobs, but there are English-only quality rater jobs as well. See the full profile about these telecommuting jobs, which includes how to apply and how much they pay.

Work-at-Home Company Profile: U-Haul

U-Haul jobs include work at home call center agents who provide customer service, make reservations offer roadside assistance in the U.S. and Canada. Read this profile on U-Haul's work from home jobs for more information.

Work-at-Home Company Profile: 1-800-FLOWERS

1800FLOWERS jobs from home usually start as temporary full time agents during the Christmas or Mother's Day season, but can turn into permanent jobs. 1800FLOWERS hires agents from only a few states. Read profile of 1-800-FLOWERS jobs to learn more.

Job Profile: Virtual Call Center Agent

Virtual call centers are work at home jobs in which people work for companies that either utilize their services themselves or contract to provide telephone support services for others. Find out more about the salary, skills and education required for virtual call center jobs.

Work-at-Home Company Profile: Alpine Access

Outsourcing company Alpine Access hires its call center agents as employees and offers benefits like a health care plan and 401K. Learn more in this profile of Alpine Access. Based in Denver, CO, this company, founded in 1998, provides call center outsourcing to clients using only domestic home call center agents, aka homeshoring. It employs more than 3,500 work-at-home agents in 39 states.

Work-at-Home Company Profile: GE Retail Finance

GE Retail Finance hires virtual call center agents to review credit applications and provide customer service in Texas, Ohio and Arizona. Read this profile on GE Retail Finance work from home jobs for more information.

Work-at-Home Company Profile: West at Home

Outsourcing company West@Home hires its call center agents as employees, read on for more information about home call center jobs at West at Home.

Work-at-Home Company Profile: Cloud 10

Headquartered in Denver, CO, Cloud 10, a division of Transcom, is a call center solutions company that offers clients the services of its "at home professionals" (AHP), or virtual call center agents.

Work-at-Home Company Profile: Amazon

Amazon.com uses virtual call center agents to field customer calls. The employment positions are based out of a few states. Read this profile on Amazon work from home jobs for more information.

Work-at-Home Company Profile: TeleTech

TeleTech@Home the virtual call center division TeleTech,a global business process outsourcing (BPO) company that hires hires associates to work from home as call agents and in other fields. Benefits include paid training, 401k.

Work-at-Home Company Profile: Convergys Careers

Use this profile of Convergys to learn more about Convergys careers. Find out how to apply for its work at home call center jobs in the U.S. Canada and United Kingdom (U.K). And start your Convergys career now.

Work-at-Home Company Profile: CenturyLink

CenturyLink is a provider of broadband, entertainment and voice services to consumers and businesses in 33 states that offers work at home call center jobs. Use this company profile of CenturyLink to learn more about home-based jobs at CenturyLink. Find out how to apply for its work at home call center jobs in the U.S.

Work-at-Home Company Profile: New Corp

Based in Stirling, VA, work-at-home employer NEW Corp. (pronounced N-E-W Corp) is a worldwide provider of extended service contracts and product protection programs. It hires both work-at-home and office-based call center agents to troubleshoot and provide customer service for its clients. The company's clients include Best Buy, Lowe's DirecTV, Walmart, GameStop, AT&T and Gateway.

Work-at-Home Company Profile: Working Solutions

Find out what it takes to work from home for home call center company Working Solutions as an "Agent OnDemand." This profile of the Working Solutions provides details of pay, benefits and application process.

Work-at-Home Company Profile: HSN

Find out what it takes to work from home for HSN (Home Shopping Network). This profile of the HSN jobs at home gives details of pay, benefits and application process.

Kids’ Activities Series: Photo Crafts for Kids

Photo crafts for kids not only are fun but they make great gifts too all the while keeping little ones busy while mom gets some work done. There are a wide range of photo crafts and activities. The kids’ activities in this series of profiles need little adult help but are fun for kids.

Work-at-Home Job Profile: Apple At-Home Advisor

This jobs profile outlines the duties of Apple At-Home Advisors, who work from home in the company's AppleCare division giving customer support for iPhones, iPads, MacBooks and other Mac products.

Work-at-Home Job Profile: Online Tutoring

Job profile of online tutoring lays out where to find these positions, how they are structured, what the education requirements and qualifications are for jobs in online tutoring in K-12, high school and college.

Work-at-Home Job Profile: Instructional Designer

This profile of instructional designer jobs profile gives information on telecommuting, salary, education and experience for instructional designers. Instructional designers work in online education, distance learning, e-learning, training, etc., in business, government and non-profit settings.

Work-at-Home Job Company Profile: Lionbridge

Global localization company Lionbridge offers both bilingual and English-only work at home opportunities. Jobs range from translation to Internet assessor. See this profile of Lionbridge for more details.

Work-at-Home Job Company Profile: Leapforce

Leapforce hires independent contractors to perform research tasks for its clients. These jobs are similar to Google as quality raters and Lionbridge Internet assessors. Many of these work at home jobs are bilingual.

Work-at-Home Profile: Google Employment

While there is huge interest in work at home Google employment, unfortunately there are not nearly as many telecommuting Google jobs. But the high interest in employment at Google has sparked a number of work at home scams purporting to offer at home Google employment. That said, there are a few legitimate Google jobs for "Ad Quality Raters."

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