Working from home offers numerous advantages, such as saving time on commuting, enjoying the comfort of your own space, and reducing expenses on professional attire. Despite these perks, a relatively small percentage of people currently work remotely. If you’re considering making the switch to a more flexible work setup, here is a list of remote job options that provide great flexibility and convenience.
Content Writer/Copywriter
Freelance writing comes in a few different forms, managing written content for businesses, which can include a variety of mediums. They’re responsible for writing the text or copy for marketing and promotional materials. With freelance writing, you have the option to work for one company, multiple clients, or even sell blogs and articles.
Customer Service Representative
When you get past the chatbots and automated customer service systems, there has to be a real person at the end; this person could be you! Many companies allow for flexibility in your work schedule as they need to maintain a live human option 24 hours a day. So, next time you use these services, remember that the person on the other end of the line might be sitting at home in their underwear.
Business Development Manager
Companies are always looking for growth opportunities; this is where business development managers come in. They’re responsible for driving business to a company through their network of contacts, marketing strategies, and other growth projects. They also analyze sales projections and forecast revenue, all of which can easily be done from home.
Data Analyst
This is another one for the highly left-brained. Data analysts can make serious cash for evaluating a company’s data, often remotely. They take the information they find and transform it into something easily used by the company to understand how the company is doing in a variety of realms (marketing, income, spending, etc.).
Virtual Assistant
Love administrative work? Hate offices? A virtual assistant may be the job for you. As a virtual assistant, you work as an independent contractor, providing administrative services. The client will usually give you remote access to tools you’ll need, such as calendars and other planning documents. These positions can easily be found on gig-work sites like TaskRabbit and Upwork for around £20 an hour.
Sales Representative
For those who love talking on the phone, a remote sales representative is the job for you! As a remote sales representative, you do the same work as a regular sales representative—sell products and services to customers—just from the comfort of wherever you are. Sales representatives often work for a base salary plus commission.
HR Consultant
Sending someone to HR may be a little difficult when their office is at home, but many companies hire human resource consultants to come in for project-based work. This can include conducting research to identify issues and then creating a plan to resolve them. It can also consist of creating strategies for recruitment and training and implementing HR technologies or handbooks.
Web Developer
If you’ve always had a knack for web design, don’t waste your talents in a corporate office. If you went freelance, you would be amazed at how much more money you can make compared to working for a company that isn’t paying you fairly for your efforts. However, bear in mind that, even remotely, you’ll be all on your own in terms of management and discipline.
Online Tutor
A great way to earn some extra cash remotely is through online tutoring. Kathy Kristof, founder and editor of SideHusl.com, says “There’s no shortage of subject matters you can teach: algebra, contemporary literature, history… There’s also a range of non-academic subjects you can teach, like tambourine and Dungeons & Dragons.” You’ll likely be tested for your knowledge and aptitude on the subjects you wish to tutor in, though.
UX/UI Designer
UX design involves managing the user journey as they interact with a product or service, while UI design focuses on the actual construction of that product or service’s interface. UI design is usually considered part of the UX design process and is very important these days, even if it wasn’t really around 20 years ago.
IT Support Specialist
Much like customer service representatives, a live IT support specialist will eventually tell you to unplug and re-plug your computer to see if it will work. In all seriousness, an IT specialist helps employees and customers troubleshoot technical problems via the Internet or a phone call, charging around £25 an hour on average.
SEO Specialist
A search engine optimization or SEO specialist tests, analyzes, and changes a website so it’s optimized for search engines, and the website subsequently ranks higher in the search results on major search engines. It goes hand in hand with copywriting, so if you have a way with both words and numbers, this could be the remote job for you.
Social Media Manager
You already spend a big chunk of your day on the internet and social media, so why not make money doing it? A social media manager works for one or more companies, managing their social media presence by interacting with their followers and implementing a social media strategy. According to ZipRecruiter, the average social media manager makes around just under £50,000 a year.
Digital Marketer
Moving a little more in-depth into the field of social media and other internet marketing are digital marketers. Digital marketers typically require a degree in marketing. They are tasked with analyzing data from social media insights, website analytics, and email campaign metrics to plan and optimize campaigns for their clients.
Graphic Designer
If you’re visually minded, graphic design may be the field for you. Graphic designers communicate ideas that inspire, inform, and captivate consumers with visual concepts. Many artists who struggle out there turn to graphic design, because it’s just as creative, but much more stable.
Accountant
You may think of accountants as sitting in a cubicle with their calculators and pocket protectors, but for those who are good with numbers—especially ones with dollar signs ahead of them—accounting could be the perfect work-from-home job. According to research from Flexjobs via FinancialCents, “accounting/finance is now the sixth most popular industry for remote work, with hybrid or fully virtual work options for CPAs, tax preparers, bookkeepers, and auditors.”
Medical Transcriptionist
With some training and a love of medical jargon, you can become a medical transcriptionist at home. A medical transcriptionist takes recordings of medical reports via secure electronic communications and puts them in written format. It can be a difficult job, requiring attention to detail, great ears, and quick typing skills, though.
Video Editor
Video editing is typically done on a freelance or contract basis, but some companies will have video editors as part of their in-house creative department. For anywhere between £10 an hour and £100 an hour, they finalise movies, television, and other visual media products from raw footage.