 If you want to work from home, do this. Part one of two. The work from home movement got a big push from COVID-19. So we've all seen that. A lot of people are working from home. But you know, even before that, a lot of people were switching to working from home. If this is something you want to do, you're going to want to watch this video to the entirety and you're also going to want to watch part two. This is part one of two parts in a series on how you can work from home. So in this video, I'm going to show you how you can work from home for your present employer. And if that doesn't work, I'll even show you companies that will allow you to work from home and you could just go to work for them. And we're starting right now. Hey, I'm JR Fisher. Been selling online since 2009. Sold millions of dollars of both digital and physical products. And on this channel, I share with you ways you can start, run and grow a business online or just work from home from your current employer. 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Thanks to technology, things like Skype and Zoom and Google Hangouts and FaceTime and all these other programs out there, a lot of people are figuring out they can actually work from home. And you probably can too. Now the fact is, we know why it's attractive as employees. I mean, we don't have to commute, which is really cool. We can eat at the house, we can save ourself money, we can be around our family, we can be in our own comfortable environments. But the truth is, if it wasn't good for an employer, no companies would do it. Companies have figured out that you working from home can actually save them money. They don't have to have office buildings and offices and elaborate computer setups and electricity and heat and cooling and all those things that they're gonna have to supply to you if you work in a building. Additionally, they found that had reduced turnover. People who work from home have a higher job satisfaction. It also actually protects and insulates the company too because if there is a natural or man-made disaster and it affects that office building, well, you know, they're out of business. But if their employees work remotely all over the place then that almost has no effect on their business whatsoever. So it's really beneficial to businesses to let employees work from home. Now, to work from home, it is necessary that you have the technology that's gonna be required to do your job and that comes in many different forms. You, of course, are gonna have to have a workspace. You're gonna have to have internet connection. Now, personally, I end up at a Starbucks a lot. So, you know, I can work out of a Starbucks. They have the internet connection and there's the workspace right there. There's a table and a place to sit. So it makes it really easy. The next thing I will tell you though that this is where some people mess up is they don't have a good work schedule. You actually have to set times that you're gonna work and stick to it. Today I'm shooting videos. Today I shoot videos from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. That's what I know I have to do. I have to get up earlier than that and get some other work done prior to that and I'm gonna have to get some other work done after that. The thing is I have a schedule and I don't get interrupted. I don't do anything else. I stick to that schedule. If you're going to have to talk to other people in your business, you know, you gotta work out how you're gonna do that. You're gonna use Skype or you're gonna use FaceTime, you know, Zoom. What are you gonna use? You gotta get that all set up too. Now, obviously there's certain jobs that kinda lend themselves to working online like IT. IT, you certainly don't need to go into office and sit next to somebody. But also virtual assistants, any type of data entry, instruction and teaching can easily be done online. So there's a lot of jobs that really shouldn't be done in person. They should actually be done online. And you're gonna see a huge change of this from, you know, months ago before COVID-19 hit us because a lot of people are gonna realize that they can now work there because they've done it. They were forced into this test. There's a variety of really big companies that are now turning the page and having their people work from home. Companies like Amazon and Dell and Humana, Kaplan, Salesforce, they all have remote employees at this time and they have a whole lot more than they ever did before and that workforce is growing. Now on top of all the things like your technology and your internet and all that, you need to really get organized as to how you're gonna handle things. Things like your kids being around, your pets being around. How are you gonna deal with those situations? Up front, you know, with your employer, if you're gonna be working for an employer, you kinda gotta know the ground rules. What's expected of you? Is it a set amount of work or is it that you're available to answer calls from nine to five? We wanna get this set up right up front so there's no confusion. Make sure you're allowed to work on a public Wi-Fi that you don't have to have some type of secure connection. You know, some companies do require that and you may have to address that at the time. How are you gonna communicate with your fellow employees? Is it gonna be through Slack? Is it gonna be through Asana? How are you going to, you know, work on your different projects and everybody work on it and it all get organized? I would suggest if you're doing this with an employer, you wanna have some trial runs first because you're gonna run into issues. You're gonna have problems. You know, not everything's always gonna be smooth so you know, have some trial runs and figure out where you need to make some adjustments. Now, earlier I said set up a functional workspace. Now, not everybody's gonna have an office. This is my office in the house so I have this office here. That's really nice. I can sit here and work if I want. However, maybe you don't have a space like this but you do wanna have it removed from noise and interruptions. You know, maybe it's the corner of your bedroom. Maybe it's the corner of the living room. You know, maybe it's the kitchen table. I don't know where it is for you but you know where the best space is for you to get the type work done that you wanna do. If you don't have a designated space, it makes it really difficult because if you do have a designated space, it kinda puts you in the mindset that I'm working now, I'm doing this. But you know, if you're just sitting on the couch and you're thumbing through TV shows all day long and then doing some work and then going back to TV shows, you're not gonna be very productive. You really have to have the right internet speed. You know, I see so many people. Matter of fact, I had a call the other day with a business and the person was trying to pull stuff up and it was actually a nurse that I was talking to on the line and she was trying to pull stuff up and she kept saying, I'm sorry, it's slow loading, it's slow loading. I said, are you working from home? She says, yeah. I said, do you just have normal internet? She goes, yeah. I'm like, well, there's the problem, okay? If you're gonna be working from home and you're gonna need to access stuff on the internet, normal home internet is not very fast and you're gonna have some issues. Now, in our home, we have a business internet. It's a business level internet so that we can get our work done because if you're staring at your screen waiting for, you know, half hour, 45 minutes overall throughout the day, that's gonna waste a lot of time. So, you know, you spending another 20, 30, 40, $50 a month can save you a tremendous amount of time and this is something you wanna address maybe with your employer too if you're working for an employer and they're having you work remote. Make sure you set up the right phone apps. This is one thing I see where in businesses there's maybe 10 or 20 or 30 employees and they're all using different ways to connect. So, you know, if one employee always uses Skype and always has Skype open and I'm another employee and I like to use FaceTime and I never have Skype open, they're not gonna be able to get a hold of me. So you have to have some ground rules. What are we gonna use for communications and we have to have those apps open at all times so that we can communicate with each other? You also wanna minimize distractions. You know, if you have dogs barking and if you have jackhammers going outside and construction all that, that can be very disruptive to the person that you're talking to. You wanna use some noise cancelling type of headset or iPod, pros, earphones, something that's gonna knock out that outside noise. If you have kids around, they can disturb you too so you may wanna make a deal with the husband or wife. You know, who's gonna watch the kid at what times? I have an employee that is at home a lot and he works nights and his wife works days and they take off time to watch their child. They can do that because they both work remote. So make sure you plan that out in advance. If it's not planned in advance, then there's always gonna be arguments. There's always gonna be problems for you. Plan extra social interactions. Now I know a lot of people like the idea of working in solitude and getting their work done, but we still need that human interaction. So make sure even if it's not offsite where you meet somebody at a restaurant, something like that, but make sure that you are connected with the people you work with. Do some video chats, do some Skypes with your video camera on, do some FaceTimes with your video camera on and take those breaks to talk to other people on your team and it'll make it a whole lot more organized and you will be more productive if you take those little mental breaks. Now it used to be, yeah, the people that worked for home, it was kind of hokey. Maybe it was an Amway, some multi-level company, something like that, where they were trying to keep their costs down. So they said, oh yeah, you get to work from your house. But many major companies now are having their employees work from home. As a matter of fact, work from home employees over the past couple of years has gone up 39%. That's huge. That is huge. So the availability of work from home jobs is actually out there. On the site flexjobs.com, they actually vet the companies that have people work from home. They check on them and see if the employees are happy and if they're earning a good living. And they do regular surveys to make sure that those companies that are offering jobs on their site are real work from home jobs. They're not some type of multi-level scam. You know, a lot of healthcare providers now, Humana, CVS Health, United Health Group are having their employees work from home. Yes, even nurses can work from home. They don't necessarily have to take vitals when a patient in an office, they can actually interview them through questions and find out what's going on and they can actually help that patient. This also goes for their insurance workers. You know, they don't need to have a person in their doctor's office doing the insurance. They can certainly do that over video chat. They can do that over the telephone. So that allows these people to work from home too. Now there's a ton of companies out there that you can actually get a job from and work from home. One of the biggest ones is Amazon. Amazon.com is hiring a lot of people to work from home. At the time of this recording, Amazon has 750,000 people working remote for the company. Another big company that's doing this is Dell. You can check with Dell. Dell.com has tons of people that work from home. If you wanna work in healthcare, Humana is a great company to work for and they have so many remote positions that's another company you may wanna try it with. So even if your company's not gonna let you, I'm gonna give you some that will. Atna, Atna Insurance is another big company that will let you work remotely. They're out there and they're hiring right now. American Express is always looking for people. Go to their website, check out their job board there and you can find, you can get a remote job from them. Also Kaplan. Kaplan is a great training company from K to 12 programs and they need people to work remotely. Another company is Salesforce.com. They're in the Fortune Magazine Top 100 Best Companies to work for and they'll let you work remote. ADP, which has a lot of data processing, right? They will let you work from home. Check out ADP. Let's not forget the big giant, Xerox. Xerox has so many positions available now for people to work from home. And there's so many different positions. There's data entry, there's translators, there's virtual assistance. There's so many different positions that you can get and work from home. Why not check it out? Even if you're gonna work a call center, something that's not as skilled, you can work a call center from your house. So that should give you some ideas of things you need to do and if your company won't let you work from home, there are companies that will let you work from home and you can certainly go apply to those companies. I really appreciate you watching this video. Put your comments below. What did you get out of this video? What did you learn? Are you working from home? Tell me all about it. Tell me how it's going for you in the comments below. So like I said, I appreciate you watching but you gotta subscribe. You gotta hit that subscribe button. You gotta ring the bell. You gotta turn on all bell notifications. It's super important that you do that. Now, in the next video, I'm gonna talk about companies you can work for at home and avoid scams, because there are some scams out there. See, as you type in, work from home, believe me, there's some scams out there. Stay away from those. I also have a $97 Ecommerce course. You can get absolutely free. 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