Work At Home Call Center – Can you get a stay at home job from a call center?
Work At Home Call Center
Question by King: Can you get a stay at home job from a call center?
The call center I want to work for usually has there employees work in there building.the work seems like something I can do from home .is it typically possible to be able to work from home for a company that usually employs people in an office?who do I ask about everything?
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Answer by Pal
You would need to be able to connect to their phone system and that would be prohibitively expensive. Quite possibly there would not even be sufficient band width in a residential area to install that kind of high capacity phones.
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Because full hip extension is just that important.
Altogether this stand-up desk setup totaled around 0:
– IKEA Galant: around 0
– Box stands: plywood (4’x4′ birch), plus or so for screws, glue, sandpaper and spray lacquer, plus an afternoon of tinkering.
– Monitor stand: shelf, legs
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Yes you can. Certain companies will have a program where you can work from a computer from your own home. Hope this helps! Good luck! 🙂
If you’re looking for an at-home call center job, I currently do exactly that for Enterprise holdings (the car rental company). They’re working on expanding the at-home options in various states, and have the listings on their website under the career sections. Without knowing which company you’re looking into, I’d recommend talking with the HR people there (generally the recruiting personnel) to determine whether the company has at-home positions available.
Like a previous answer stated, this sort of thing tends to be prohibitively expensive to arrange on the large scale, but I’ve also worked at one small company that had the arrangement to access your physical computer remotely so we could do extra work at home when the opportunity was available. You definitely want to do your homework – research the company itself and verify the listings for the position with the company directly, rather than clicking ANYTHING that has been e-mailed to you without you putting in a request for them to send you the information. I can personally verify the Enterprise at-home jobs, and I’ve seen at least one listing for Amazon.com for at-home call center work for veterans in Oregon.
Things to keep in mind when looking for / researching an at-home job:
-Verify the legitimacy of the company itself. If it’s something major you’ve been seeing ads for since you were a kid, it’s still probably a good idea to make sure they don’t have a history of screwing over their employees. websites such as glassdoor.com have listings of employee reviews and often an estimate of income.
-Verify the legitimacy of the job listing. Anyone can put an ad on Craigslist. Just because it says you’ll be doing work for major corporation _________, that doesn’t mean that company has any clue about people touting this position. A lot of the time you can look up the HR # on the company’s website and they can tell you if they have a third party doing some recruiting for them. If you can find the job listing on the company’s website itself, even better!
-Working at home is still working; you’ve essentially just removed the commute and the dress code. It can be a difficult thing to keep yourself focused during training with your personal diversions around, and most companies will require a dedicated (during business hours) work space with doors that can be closed and other things, such as not being the primary caregiver for children during work and no-noise policies for when you’re on the phone. You still have to work hard, you’re just generally more comfortable when you’re doing it.
-There are technical requirements for this sort of thing. In my specific situation, I have my own computer that meets their specifications, and I’m expected to maintain it in good working order. I also have a VPN phone that takes a LOT of bandwidth, so they’re liable to turn down anyone with a connection less than cable internet. There are security requirements, and it goes beyond passwords – There are lots of those, but you also have to bear in mind that you should be properly disposing of any personal or company information when you’re done with it. I use a small whiteboard to take notes instead of normal pen and paper, but a shredder wouldn’t be awry in most cases. And, finally…
-Working at home is a lonely thing. While I love that I no longer have the sad kitty trying to catch my by the ankle when I leave her to go to work in the mornings (this has been replaced with being able to pet and hug her when I get a mean person on the phone), the cats can’t talk, and you’re not supposed to have anyone who can in the room. No banter with coworkers across the cubicle walls (though I must say, Enterprise is doing what they can to make the at-home agents included in everything), no birthday parties for people in the break room, and your only non-work social interaction is what you take the effort to obtain or what you have with whomever you share a dwelling.
While most these days are a scam, the big companies seem to be catching onto the idea that good people could do call center work from home, and are heading in that direction. If it’s right for you, do your homework on the place you’re looking into and work hard to keep it!
Good luck 🙂
I like your setup 🙂
Thanks for the notes, was curious about a few items 😛
How long do you find you can continue standing at this setup? Wondering if it would force you to have more frequent breaks from programming or whether you can just stand there for long periods? I have a setup that I could modify to try this out, but I’m wondering how it’d go when I need to just stand there doing uni readings vs when typing uni essays vs having coding sessions?
ps: tempted by a quad-core i7?
Hey, Nic! Good questions, there.
Adapting to the standing setup definitely took a few days of somewhat less-than-optimal productivity. During that time I would take a lot more breaks to sit down, but that wasn’t a huge loss because it meant more thinking and contemplation about what I was working on. It took a few more days after that to get used to standing up straight and looking straight ahead at my monitor.
These days I can easily go for hours at a time when I’m in the zone. I don’t know quite how many hours, because I’ve also removed all visible clocks from my workstation 🙂
My breaks flow pretty naturally along with the pace of my work — if I get out of the zone, I’m more inclined to go do something else away from the computer, rather than waste time on RSS and Twitter.
The Air is rather conducive to moving around, too. I’ll go visit a local coffee shop a few afternoons a week to mix things up. And CrossFit trainer Kelly Starrett’s Mobility WOD videos are great for breaking down the mechanics that ultimately motivated me to get back to a proper stand up desk.
And the Air’s awesome battery life, form factor, and SSD, are exactly why I’m not tempted by a quad-core i7 🙂
Let me know if you go with something like this, and how it turns out!
after a few months of working like this…if you took the center of your monitor and compared it to yourself, where would it fall -sternum, nose, adams apple? I’m wondering how high is should place mine. Thanks for sharing
My eyes are about at 1/3 down from the top, so I suppose the center is about at my nose or a bit lower. Basically I look straight ahead while using the monitor.
thanks!
Six months later, I ditched the monitor stand and am now looking slightly down at the monitor. Apparently I either prefer this or am neutral because I haven’t felt the urge to put the monitor stand back in yet.
@nic: ten months later, and now I am very much tempted by a quad-core i7 ;-P
This particular Air is great for the reasons I mentioned, but I think my next system will be a maxed-out iMac for heavier stuff like compiling, unit tests, Photoshop, virtual machines, and Diablo 3 😀
@nick: I’ve continued to be constrained by a machine that is portable, given I do a lot of programming in a local cafe. However, I’m considering going your route and doing an Air for that, mainly code writing, and a maxed out iMac for home where I can do more grunt work. Given my coding is all iOS now-a-days, grunt is generally desired in order to make a compile not take forever, so it may vary depending on compiling needs? I haven’t spent any money for almost 2 years now on my setup, but I’m not about to jump into anything, at least not until new refreshes come out. 😉
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