This is a list of companies that hire telecommuters (for remote or virtual jobs) and companies that have hired telecommuters in the past – both as freelance telecommuters and remote workers as well as regular virtual employees.
When visiting the company websites, search for current job openings with the keywords “telecommuting”, “remote”, “home”, and “virtual”. Note that not all these companies are hiring telecommuters or remote workers at the moment and vacancies change often.
Aetna Life Insurance – http://www.aetna.com
Allegiance Health Care- http://www.baxter.com
AG Communication – http://www.agcs.com
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. – http://www.airproducts.com
American Airlines – http://www.aa.com
American Express – http://www.americanexpress.com
Ameritech – http://www.ameritech.com
Allergan – http://www.allergan.com
Allstate Insurance – http://www.allstate.com
Apple Computer – http://www.apple.com
Arbitron Ratings Inc. – http://www.arbitron.com/jobs/home.htm
Art & Logic – http://www.artlogic.com
AT&T – http://www.att.com/employment/cpa.html
Bank of America – http://www.bofa.com/batoday/batoday.html
Banker’s Trust – http://www.bankerstrust.com
Baxter Healthcare – http://www.baxter.com
Bell South – http://www.bellsouth.com
Beneficial Corporation – http://www.beneficial.com
Berlitz Translation Services – http://www.berlitz.com
Blue Cross/Blue Shield – http://www.bluecross.com
CFW Communications – http://www.cfw.com
Chevron – http://www.chevron.com
CIGNA – http://www.cigna.com
Cincinnati Bell – http://www.cinbelltel.com
CISCO Systems, Inc. – http://www.cisco.com
Citibank – http://www.citibank.com
Compaq Computer Corporation – http://www.compaq.com
Computer Curriculum Corp. – http://www.cccnet.com (Email: jobs@cccnet.com)
Connext Inc. – http://www.connext.com
Creative Freelance -http://www.freelancers.com
Creative Labs – http://www.soundblaster.com – Engineers.
Creative Freelancers- http://www.freelancers.com/
Dell Computer – http://www.dell.com
Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. – http://www.diamondmm.com – Software engineers, technical support, marketing and sales.
Digital Equipment Corporation – http://www.digital.com
Digital News – http://www.digitalnews.com
Digital Origin Inc.- http://www.digitalorigin.com
DSP TEchnology, Inc. – http://www.dspt.com – Software and application engineers.
DuPont – http://www.dupont.com
Ernest & Young, L.L.P. – http://www.ey.com
Eastman Kodak Company – http://www.kodak.com
EasyCom – http://www.easycom.com
Edify Corp. – http://www.edify.com -
Electronics for Imaging, Inc. – http://www.efi.com – Web developers and QA.
En Pointe Technologies – http://www.enpointe.com – Sales staff.
Equitable Life Assurance – http://www.equitable.com
Fannie Mae – http://www.fanniemae.com
Farallon Computing – http://www.farallon.com
The Federal Government – http://www.jobsingovernment.com
Gannett – http://www.gannett.com
GEICO – http://www.geico.com – They offer telecommuting and other flexible schedules.
General Electic Nuclear Energy – http://www.ge.com – Primarily looking for Engineers.
GTE – http://www.gte.com
GE Plastics- http://www.ge.com
Globalink Language Services http://www.lhsl.com/jobs/
Gymboree Corp. – Job Hotline 1-800-222-7758.
Hewlett-Packard – http://www.hp.com Software and hardware design engineers, manufacturing engineers, product marketing, sales development, finance and human resource professionals.
Hello Deny, Inc. – http://www.hello-direct.com
Honeywell – http://www.honeywell.com
Hughes Aircraft – http://www.hughes.com
Hypermedia Group, Inc. – http://www.hmg.com
IBM – http://www.ibm.com – programmers, user-centered design programmers, technical and customer service support., IBM also uses the services of contractors on a regular basis.
Inktomi Corp. – http://www.inktomi.com – Computer engineers.
Inprise – formerly Borland Inc.
/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm? area http://www.inprise.com/about/
Insignia Solutions, Inc. – http://www.insignia.com – Technical support, sales and customer service.
Intel – http://www.intel.com – Engineers.
Intellicorp, Inc. – http://www.intellicorp.com – SAP consultants.
Interactive Systems – http://www.interactivesystems.com
Intracorp – http://www.intracorp.com
JCPenney – http://www.jcpenney.com
Jet Propulsion Laboratory – http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/hrext/employment/
John Hancock Insurance – http://www.johnhancock.com
Johnson & Company – http://joandco.com/about/helpWanted.html
Journal Graphics – http://www.journalgraphics.com/Jobs/Current.htm
Knight-Ridder Information, Inc. – http://www.krinfo.com -
San Jose Mercury News – http://www.sjmercury.com -
LAM Research Corp. – http://www.lamrc.com -
Lanier Worldwide Inc.- http://www.lanier.com
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – http://www.llnl.gov – Computer engineers and optical electrical engineers.
LINK Resources Corporation – http://www.linkresources.com
Lucent Technologies- http://www.lucent.com/work/culture.html
Lumisys, Inc. – http://www.lumisys.com
Macromedia Inc. – http://www.macromedia.com
MacWEEK – http://www.zdnet.com
Maxtor Corp. – http://www.maxtor.com
McGraw Hill – http://www.mcgraw-hill.com
Meridian Data, Inc. – http://www.meridian-data.com
Merrill Lynch – http://www.ml.com/
Microsoft Corp. – http://www.microsoft.com
Molecular Devices Corp. – http://www.moldev.com
National Association of Insurance Commissioners – http://www.naic.com -
NEC Electronics, Inc. – http://www.nec.com – Telecommuting program handled on a case by case basis.
Netframe Systems, Inc. – http://www.netframe.com – They are looking for hardware and software engineers.
Netscape Communications Corp. – http://www.netscape.com The jobs hotline is 1-415-937-2783.
NewsBank – http://www.newsbank.com/
Newsbytes News Service – http://www.newsbytes.com/
Nike – http://www.nike.com
Nortel (Northern Telecom) – http://www.nortel.com/
Oacis Healthcare Systems – http://www.oacis.com – They are looking for
software development, clinical system and applications engineers.
Oak Technology, Inc. – http://www.oaktech.com – IC design and software
engineers.
Octel Communications Corp. – http://www.octel.com
Oracle Corp. – http://www.oracle.com
The Olsten Corporation – http://www.olsten.com/employ/index.html
Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical http://www.oracle.com
Pacific Bell – http://www.sbc.com
PC Week – http://www.zdnet.com
Peoplesoft, Inc. – http://www.peoplesoft.com – Software developers, support, consulting and trainers
Prime Computer Systems: http://www.primecomputer.net
Philips C&P Division – http://www.philips.com
Quantum Corp. – http://www.quantum.com
Quintus Corp. – http://www.quintus.com – Looking for quality assurance
engineers, professional services consultants and technical support engineers.
Radius, Inc. – http://www.radius.com
The RAND Corporation: http://www.rand.com/careers/
Raytheon Systems – http://www.raytheon.com/rsc -
Remedy Corp. – http://www.remedy.com
Rockwell International Corporation – http://www.rockwell.com/jobs
Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. – http://www.sco.com
Sears, Roebuck & Co. – http://www.sears.com
The Seattle Times- http://www.seattletimes.com/
SEEQ Technology, Inc. – http://www.seeq.com -
Siemens Business Communication Systems, Inc. – http://www.siemens.com -
Sprint – http://www.trudge.com
Sun Microsystems – http://www.sun.com
Symantec Corp. – http://www.symantec.com
Tab Products Co. – http://www.tabproducts.com
Texas Instruments – http://www.ti.com
UMI/Data Courier – http://www.umi.com
Unigroup Inc. – http://www.unigroup.com
United Press International – http://www.upi.com
Vanstar Corporation – www.skillnet.skillset.com/inacom
Verifone, Inc. – http://www.verifone.com
Verizon formerly Bell Atlantic – http://www.verizon.com
VirtualStaff – http://www.virtualstaff.com
Xerox – http://www.zerox.com
Xyratex- http://www.xyratex.com
Zitel Corp. – http://www.zitel.com
Filed under Allstate by on Feb 26th, 2011. Comment. 
Everyone hears the news and knows healthcare in America is a hot topic with politicians. It’s no secret we need better insurance, more regulations on prescription drugs and reasonable healthcare costs. Regardless of your stand on this issue, health insurance is a valuable commodity to wait on avoid financial disaster due to illness or disease but there is another way to alleviate this situation. I’m sure you’ve seen the AFLAC commercials advertising money to attend pay bills if you’re laid up. What that crazy little duck is talking about is Disability Income Protection Insurance.
Based on your salary and the amount of coverage you elect, DI coverage will allow monetary relief payable to you in the instance you are disabled either short or long term and is coverage you maintain even if you purchase the policy through your employer. Therefore, if you leave your job due to illness or disease or are receiving Workers Compensation due to an injury on the job, you can still receive your DI benefits.
Most major insurance companies (State Farm, Allstate, etc) offer this type of coverage, so whether or not you like the AFLAC duck or your employer does not participate in a plan, you can still get a disability income protection policy.
Credit Life insurance is normally connected to a specific loan (ie; auto or home). Nearly every loan out there offers credit life and/or disability insurance that will kick in and pay your brand in the instance of disability or will pay off the imprint in the occurrence of death.
Advantage: Although your note will increase by the amount of premium, you don’t have to worry about this particular bill in the instance of death or disability.
Disadvantage: As the principle of the loan decreases, so does the face amount of the policy without a change in premium.
In most cases, it is wiser to purchase a Term Life policy to cover the face amount and length of loan – especially on a long-term loan such as a mortgage. This diagram, if your mortgage starts out at $100,000 for 20yrs and your policy is a 20yr level term for $100,000 as the principle of your mortgage goes down—your policy remains the same, leaving everything extra to your beneficiary.
For short term loans (auto, signature, etc) adding this protection can mean the difference between maintaining your good credit and filing bankruptcy. Even credit cards offer some type of credit life and/or disability protection.
Accidental Death and Dismemberment insurance is the type of insurance often connected to a checking and/or savings yarn and pays a death serve only in the instance of accidental means. It is usually pretty cheap and provides a shrimp extra coverage for pennies. However, this is not the type of insurance to rely on to protect your family’s income in the instance of your death.
If all these types of insurance (life, health, disability, auto, home, flood, etc) serve only to confuse or frustrate you, visit your local insurance professional. He or she can clarify everything and guide you in purchasing adequate protection for your family.
Remember the bible talks about “getting your house in order” and insurance protection is one way to do this.
Filed under Allstate by on Feb 24th, 2011. Comment.
In 2001 our school spring break occurred in the second week of April. I took my children to visit my folks for few days and returned to my Victorian home in a small town in central Illinois on a Thursday. We went to bed kind of early but I woke up in the middle of the night sensing that something was wrong. My room seemed the same, there was no funny smell or sound, but something was wrong. It was red. Or orange. Everything was a funny color. And then I realized that the color of the world outside my bedroom window was red—something was on fire. It had to be the bathroom at the back of the house and I woke my husband as I jumped from the bed and ran toward the door. But the bathroom was not on fire, the garage across the alley from our garage was and we could leer it from our bathroom window.
I called 911 as my husband went to hose down our garage roof. The volunteer fire department was on its way and within an hour the fire was out. The other garage was destroyed but ours had been spared destruction—just the roof on the north side and the two sections of wooden fence next to the garage were beyond repair. Pretty lucky. Or so we thought as we returned to bed.
We had lived in our house for 11 years at the time and had always carried homeowner’s insurance. This, however, had not been our fire so we filed a claim with the other people’s company for $1800. We dutifully got an estimate on roof repair but only claimed enough to do the work ourselves. Their agent called and wanted some information from our fire chief which I gave him. When I didn’t hear anything I called him back. He was, to say the least, brusque as he informed me that it was not his insurance which had to pay, but ours. Well that seemed silly so I called our agent. He informed me that, indeed, it was our agency which had to pay and they would do so. They did and we repaired the roof ourselves that summer (believe me when I say repairing a roof is not pleasant work).
That tumble we chose to move our auto insurance policies to a different company and were informed just after Christmas that our homeowner’s insurance company was dropping us. They gave two reasons for this: 1) we had had three claims ($250, $300 and $1800) over the last 11 years, and 2) they were no longer going to insure those who did not have multiple policies with their company. What a sham! We had paid these people over $6000 and they were refusing our policy because of a fire which wasn’t even on our property! Well, righteous riddance to bad rubbish. We would just accumulate a new insurance company.
Or not. I made several phone calls and was informed that because we had a fire on our represent most companies would not insure us. I started to feel like the town indigent and turned to the time honored practice of ignoring the issue. Time passed and we continued to live with no insurance. Our bank told us that fire insurance would be placed on our home. That sounded good because, really, fire was the biggest threat so having that covered would be a huge relief. We lived with that for awhile. When we received an offer of homeowner’s insurance from the National Education Association, of which I am a member, I thought we were all set. I called and the very nice man told me that we didn’t qualify (thanks to our fire), but for the first time someone did take the time to explain to me that our insurance record showed that the fire claim was under abrogation—which meant that our old company was level-headed holding out hope that they would retrieve the claim money from the neighbor’s company. He suggested I call them and explain everything and ask if the claim could go away if it wasn’t going to be settled. He also said that if they said no the record should go away on its own in five years. Great.
I called the old company. They told me that it was indeed, under abrogation, but that they had no hope of ever actually getting their money back. So I asked what I thought was a life-saving question: could they, then, remove it from our record? Well, no, she said, because then it would look as if it were settled and it wasn’t settled. “But,” I pointed out, “you unbiased told me it isn’t going to be settled.”
“That’s right it isn’t. But we can’t just act as if it was never on your recount.”
“But why not? It wasn’t even our fire? ”
“I’m sorry, but we just can’t.”
Well that was that. Then one day in the summer of 2003 I saw a sign for the fire insurance company our bank had placed us with and I hatched what I thought was a luminous notion. I would just go ask them to insure everything. After all, they already had the most dangerous part of the gamble covered. The woman who spoke with me was very kind as she explained, noteworthy as you would to a five year old, that their company did not actually insure our home for us. They insured it for the bank. If we ever had a fire the bank’s loss would be taken care of—we would get nothing. Now I felt like a listless indigent. However, she did suggest that I call the Illinois plot insurance board and ask them what to do and she even gave me the number.
I called and the guy told me that we were aesthetic much out of luck. He said we might be able to get one company to insure us because they specialized in uninsurable cases, but that it would cost a lot—and a lot we didn’t have. He also told me that whomever had told me the record would go away in five years was sadly mistaken—records were kept by a company out of Atlanta and might go on deep background but never actually went away. And he didn’t think fire even went on deep background. He was also kind enough to inform me that if a fire is not arson then the owner of the damaged home is almost always responsible for their own damage (a fact our fire chief was surprised to learn) and, furthermore, that our home would be probably be uninsurable for future potential buyers as well.
My husband and I could not believe it—and no one else did either. It was like a bad movie or the book of Job and it wouldn’t end. We lived through another winter and the fourth tornado season with no insurance. And then in April our Allstate agent sent us a letter requesting that we switch our homeowner’s insurance to them. They had already rejected us once but I sent a detailed letter and informed them that they were more than welcome to insure our autos as well as our house but that they didn’t appear to want to. The agent called two days later to say that Allstate would gladly take on our home.
The saga ended when, two months ago, they removed the money from our escrow chronicle and agreed to cover us. The message I have since been shouting to anyone who will listen is simple: unless you have suffered catastrophic loss do NOT file a claim—even very small ones can lead to a company refusing to insure your home and all of them, especially fire, go on a permanent narrate. A colleague recently told me they had a branch fall on part of their fence and were going to claim $1000 from the insurance. I just looked at her and shook my head. Good luck.
Filed under Allstate by on Feb 22nd, 2011. Comment.
I recently received a mail from MetLife Insurance. It had information about why insurance companies racks up the price of your insurance even though you’ve been with them for years. MetLife is sure that they can beat any competition with their benefits and prices. So I thought to myself, “Why not call? It’s worth the try.”
So I grabbed my cellphone and dialed the number given. I waited a couple of minutes until someone was able to assist me. She sounded very nice and seemed like she’s willing to help. I’ve had my share of terrible experiences with insurance companies so this actually was a great start for me. So I started giving her all the information she needed to write a quote. After that she started discussing all the benefits MerLife offers.
New car replacement for a totaled vehicle. Their standard insurance policies automatically has this. It means that if you total a car within a year or the first 15,000 miles, whichever comes first, they will give you the full replacement cost with no depreciation. That means that they will not charge with the use of the tires, bakes, batteries, transmission, etc. I work for an insurance company and this isn’t one of the benefits that we offer. So that is such a great deal for me.
Free glass repairs. They will repair or waive your deductible of your windshield is chipped or cracked.
Guaranteed Repair Shops. Impartial like most insurance companies, they work with repair shops where they can guarantee the work done on the vehicle. Of course, it’s up to you if you want your car repaired at that shop.
There are other great benefits that she told me about but these three appealed to me more than the other ones.
After it was all said and done, she had their underwriter write up a quote for me. I waited about ten minutes on the phone, which wasn’t so bad. When she came abet she told me that the it was $700+ for six months. That’s almost half of what what I’m paying for with my current insurance policy with Allstate! Of course, I immediately signed up for this.
I haven’t filed a claim since I signed up with them so I really don’t know anything about their claims department. But all in all, my experience with MetLife was sizable! The insurance is very cheap and everyone I have spoken with is very helpful.
Check them out and I’m sure that you won’t regret it.
Filed under Allstate by on Feb 17th, 2011. Comment.
