Making Money Online: Companies Assisting Telecommuters

Tap these resources to help you land employment in a genuine telecommuting job or to help convince your current employer to give you a telecommuting benefit. Telecommuting and work at home fee-based "opportunities" are not listed here. Telecommuting is also called teleworking.

Articles & Resources

National Telecommuting Institute
Nonprofit organization that helps disabled Americans train for and find telecommuting jobs, primarily work-at-home customer service jobs in the private and public sectors. You must prove your disability to land one of the telecommuting jobs.

Best Workplaces for Commuters
U.S. companies and government agencies that join this voluntary program must offer at least one commuter benefit, such as free transit passes or telecommuting benefits. Browse a list of the member companies and agencies by clicking the appropriate link. See also

Best Companies to Work for. Many companies listed offer telecommuting among their employee benefits.

Can I Find Work As a Teleworker?
From European Telework Online, questions to ask yourself and much more about teleworking.

Find a Family-Friendly Workplace
How to find a company that offers family-friendly benefits, such as flex hours, telecommuting, child-care programs and generous maternity leave. Courtesy of TrueCareers.com.

Smart Valley Telecommuting Guide
A comprehensive, downloadable and printable document that you may give to your boss as a hint. It's a practical guide for all aspects of telecommuting.

Telecommuting: A Matter of Trust
Tips for avoiding the scams and landing a genuine telecommuting job. Includes many of the resources listed here.

Telecommuting and Work at Home Books
This site lists inexpensive but authoritative books "carefully selected for the integrity, experience and recognition of the acclaimed authors who wrote them." Topics include working from home, telecommuting, and starting a home-based business. All of the books received good to excellent reader reviews.

Ten Advantages to Telecommuting
For employers, from conserving energy to reducing job hopping. Give it to your boss to convince him or her to grant you a telecommuting benefit.

Telecommuting & Flex Friendly Companies
A comprehensive, alphabetical list of U.S. companies known to offer telecommuting benefits, flex hours or both. Well maintained by Catherine Roseberry, the Guide for Mobil Office Technology here at About.com. See also Catherine's list of Computer Telecommuting Jobs.

Customer Service Telecommuting Jobs
Customer service telecommuting jobs are on the rise, including technical support. Discover where to find and how to land legit customer service telecommuting jobs.

Paid Surveys - Are Online Paid Surveys Scams?
Paid surveys are nothing new, despite the recent bombardment of paid survey ads on the Web. Market research companies and the like have been paying consumers to participate in surveys, focus groups and such for some time now. But several questionable "middleman" sites have jumped on the paid surveys bandwagon. Are they running online paid survey scams?

Work-at-Home and Telecommuting Job Scams
Work-at-home and telecommuting job scams rip off thousands of people annually. Here are tips for avoiding them.

Interagency Telework Site
Under the guidelines of public law, eligible Federal employees must be allowed to telecommute. This, the U.S. Federal government's official telecommuting site, offers tips and resources to help Federal agencies establish telecommuting programs under the guidelines. Also offers tips and resources that help Federal employees to telecommute.

Telework Library
A collection of private-sector and U.S. governmental telecommuting resources, maintained by the General Services Administration.

Telework Webguide
AT&T started Telecommute America, the first nationwide program for telecommuting in the US. It has since evolved into this comprehensive guide for getting started. Incidentally, AT&T offers telecommuting benefits to its employees, as do many telecom companies.

Aetna Life Insurance - http://www.aetna.com

AG Communication - http://www.agcs.com - This company offers flexible scheduling, onsite childcare and telecommuting.

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

Art & Logic - http://www.artlogic.com

Arthur Andersen Consulting - http://www.arthuranderson.com

AT&T - http://www.att.com/hr/