Are you interested in a job that allows flexible hours but doesn’t require you to invest in costly “getting started” programs, inventorying products, recruiting a “downline,” or sinking your hard-earned cash into one of the many “get rich quick scams” populating the Internet these days.

Then, take a look into the business of “homesourcing.”

Also known as “homeshoring,” homesourcing is the transfer of service employment from traditional offices to home-based locations that are outfitted with the required facilities including telephone, Internet connectivity, etc. Consider it the combination of outsourcing and telecommuting. According to researching firm IDC, homesourcing opportunities are expanding by about 20% a year and are on track to explode.

Companies are feverishly looking for ways to cut labor costs and many employees like you are looking to apply their skills outside of a traditional office setting. As a result, these go-between companies are popping up to screen prospective employees and connect them with employers with some handling monitoring and billing. Up to just recently, homesourcing companies have focused mainly on staffing call centers where workers handle help-desk inquiries and other customer service issues, but now many are beginning to broaden their scope to find jobs for those skilled in areas such as software programming, technical writing, graphic design and more.Advantages of Homesourcing
Why is homesourcing on the rise? Because of the many advantages it affords the employer and employee including-

• Promoting worker loyalty and stability. Homesourced workers often need to work from home or strongly prefer to work from home. They appreciate the opportunity, and as a result can be very loyal.
• Reducing costs for the employer as homesourced workers often provide their own telephone equipment and computer systems. Employer also saves on cost of office space.
• Using homesourced workers that are local to the area where they are calling minimizes the difficulty that is sometimes encountered from regional accents, rates of speech, and other cultural differences.
• Providing potential tax advantages for the worker using part of their home for business purposes.

Homesourcing Firms Following are a list of some of the more popular and established homesourcing companies -

• Alpine Access Headquartered in Golden, Colorado; started in 1998.
• Arise Virtual Solutions Formerly WillowCSN, headquartered in Miami, Florida; started in 1997.
• LiveOps Headquarted in Palo Alto, California; started in 2000.
• oDesk Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California; started in 2003.
• VIPdesk Formerly Capital Concierge, headquartered in Alexandria, VA; started in 1987.
• West Corp Headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska; started in 1986.
• Working Solutions Headquartered in Plano, Texas; started in 1996

Let us know about your experiences with these homesourcing firms or any others with which you have worked by commenting below. And please let me know if this was a helpful article in your search for legitimate work at home opportunities.

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