I do sales at the remote call center I work at, and I get paid a whopping $16/hr. I’m good at sales and always meet the sales goals. I want to go into a commission only position, but I’m afraid it’s a bad idea

Hello all! I am looking for a wireless headset that I can use at work, going on walks, and when gaming.

I know most headsets would serve this function, but I am looking for something that would be easy to mute myself at a whim (unsure how that would work wirelessly) and something that goes over the ear.

There’s so many different headsets to choose from, at such a wide range of prices, so I am hoping for some recommendations from fellow work from homers.

TIA! 🙏🏻🙂‍↕️

The beauty of using Google Meets when working from home is that when you click on a Google Meets meeting invite, it takes you to a preview page where you can see who is in the room already. If you don't like whose in the room, you can choose to not go into the actual meeting. HAHA.

So my new role is great, I love the flexibility to wfh. However, it's been pretty easy and I have a lot of free time. Now, I don't feel like i'm working toweard anything, grinding for anything, heck lacking purpose. Do any of you have any advice on like finding new things to work towards outside of work or finding like more purpose and things to grind towards?

I live in Canada and WFH. We've had two separate providers for our mobility and internet, mainly for historic reasons and deals. Now, prices are barely different and I wonder about picking one provider for both to ease things up and maybe get a bundled deal. One issue with WFH is that sometimes one provider at a time as some local outage in our area (live in a MCOL/HCOL urban city) so one reason to have two separate is to avoid risks - if internet goes down, I can use data from phone to do emails and attend meetings and vice versa.

Anyone go through this dilemma and any advice on this matter?

Curious if anyone has found a decent warming pad that covers the back and butt area.. and lasts for more than a few months. Everything I see seems to indicate thin cords, dont heat well, etc. I dont really need a massager in it.. just something to keep my back side warm while working to avoid expensive heating bills.

I’ve been going right into work after waking up and I’ve recently found that that’s detrimental for my mental health. Do you have your morning routine(going for a short walk for example) before work, to increase productivity and help with your mental health?

Do you guys have any idea how I can seperate my mind from work and rest? For context, my workstation and bed are in the same room (It's a loft with the work and gaming station below then the bed is above).

I live in a small house with other people so I have no other choice (I'm already thankful that I have my own room)

This is causing me to go nuts and was wondering if anyone has the same setup.

I have only one day off a week. Moat of the times it's spent on chores. I work between 48 and 60 hours per week. I can't quit for many reasons I won't go through here.

What to do? I used to be passionate about this.

My WFH job promoted someone but growth takes a long time here and is VERY limited, and they do prefer you to be within a certain area since you'll be traveling a lot to the main HQ. L

My friend's company only promoted her if she agreed to move near an office as well.

Wondering if WFH = stuck?

also keeping in mind that the economy is just shit right now too, so maybe this is just what I've witnessed in the last 4 years as that's when I began becoming remote.

Starting with a new company and thinking about the equipment allowance. Not my first WFH so I already have a decent set up. I'm thinking of getting a screen I can hang on the wall for 2 purposes - a calming focal point while working and watch movies while exercising. Can't buy a TV but a monitor is basically the same thing right?

Any recs for the monitor and hanging hardware?

Hi everyone,
I works since Feb 2021 in IT for a Fortune 500 consulting company. It's stressful but I really like what I do and they pay well. When they hired me they told me that the project is fully remote for now but it's possible that the client will change idea in the future and I will have to adapt. Until the start of 2024 we were full remote, but in the last 6 months they asked us to go two days per month in the office.
I love what I do but I really dislike the office environment (it's impossible to focus on anything). Now, two days per month in the office is not a problem, but my fear is that those days will increase sooner or later.
My question is: do I start looking for a full remote work now, leaving something that I genuinely like, or do I wait hoping that the office days won't increase and, if they do, I'll look for something else then?

EDIT: thanks everyone for the replies. I'll start looking for another job, even if only to understand the current market for WFH.

What does "business update" sound like to you? 👀

I don't know what to expect...why do they do this to us? LOL

I just started working from home about 2 months ago. I started this because I have a toddler at home and I wanted something where he would be able to be with me. When we were using teams during training, no one heard anything at all with my noise canceling headphones, but since I've started taking calls, the caller has mentioned my son in almost every call when he was with me. I'm looking for headphones that are really good at canceling background noise so they can't hear him in the background. Does anyone know of any good ones?

Hi, I’ve been WFH more recently and back is getting murked by being in a fixed position for so long. I was surprised at how reasonably priced electronic riser desks are online. Can anyone recommend one?

Regards

I always thought if I set my Teams status to “busy” I’d be good to go. Then I had a manager who made a comment in a team meeting about people being “away” for large parts of the day. I hope it wasn’t just me, but I’ve been jiggling ever since.

I’m struggling using the computer and get headaches and backaches constant.

Title is, I am finally experiencing freedom from retail!!!

I’ve been a pharmacy technician for my entire working career 16yo-40, and my last day is TUESDAY!!

My friend hired me on to do title insurance examining to start and I’m getting cross trained yadda yadda.

From you pros who also have a stay-at-home wife, any tips on balancing work/home life while maintaining sanity? I’ll be counting my blessings every day in this new role by looking back at 24 years of customer interaction (no phones either!!)

Found this SR and yay! TIA

Does anyone else have trouble focusing on Fridays? I'm still getting stuff done, but it feels like no one else is working and I need more breaks to be productive.

hey - so i started about 3 weeks ago and get to wfh on fridays, with it changing to 3 days a week after my probation period.

i finished all the work they gave me for the day about 3 hours ago, an hour after i started. there’s no clocking in or productivity tracking on my pc - i could, theoretically ask for more work, but it’s just busywork.

i’m new to wfh and worked retail all my life. is it just this easy? my boyfriend is telling me this is just how working in an office is, but i dont want to get in trouble lol

Hi everyone,

I’m currently in a fully remote contract role earning around $135K per year. There’s no health insurance, no paid leave, and if I don’t work, I don’t get paid. The startup has been surviving on last-minute cash injections all year, and recently I had to cut my hours in half due to budget issues.

The work culture isn’t great—micromanaging CEO, negative environment—but the product has potential and could take off in the next few months.

I now have an offer for a hybrid role (3 days in office) with a 20% pay bump, healthcare, and gym membership perks. It’s closer to big tech, so it seems more stable, but I’d lose the flexibility of being fully remote.

Is it worth making the switch? Anyone been in a similar situation?

I currently work as a cybersecurity engineer making around 140k, while not fully in person, I work in the office 2-3 days out of the week with occasional international travel of up to two weeks at a time. My office location is about an hour and 20 minutes away each way or 50 or so miles. I received an offer for $95k with a $10k yearly bonus paid out quarterly. I’m heavily conflicted as this is a huge pay cut and I’m struggling finding work from home jobs and this is the only offer I’ve received that’s fully WFH. I also currently pay 5% in state taxes as I work in an adjacent state but my home state has no income taxes. I also do not need the health insurance as I get veterans benefits.

What do you all think?

I'm curious what folks are doing for work from home work who maybe don't have a company that they work with. I am someone that used to do call and research related work from home, but took some time to do various gigs for a year after that company went under. I haven't really found anything else like it.

I was trying to decide whether to commit to taking another crack at understanding how to code, and figured I'd pop in here to see what folks are doing from home these days. I always missed the old real estate days of just filling out speadsheets for relatively little pay.

It wasn't much, but it was satisfying. Buying, fixing, and selling small electronics is fun, but the income doesn't really cut it.

Is there an equivalent of a "starter" situation these days?

Finding myself working a lot of overtime to meet deadlines due to the excessive amount of meetings. Is this true for yall?

Especially now that it's getting colder! I live in an east coast city.

I'm looking to invest in some good loungewear that I can wear in and out of the house and still look decent in. Stuff that's not frumpy looking and isn't swallowing me whole and making me look like a bag lady.

Right now my biggest issue is how cold the mornings and evenings are, and how it's getting cooler during the day. I feel like I'm changing outfits multiple times per day to walk my dog, which leads to the inevitable pile of clothing that's covered in dog hair.

So much stuff I look at looks thin and cheap, and a pair of leggings doesn't keep me warm when it's below 60. Looking for stuff that is warm enough to walk in in low ~50s during the day, and easy things to layer on top in the mornings/evenings.

Feel free to share any more of your must haves when WFH with your dog.

Thanks!!

I dislike my role, but it pays well and has decent benefits for someone like me without a college degree. I have no interest in climbing the corporate ladder. I was in management for a decade prior to getting this role 6 years ago and I don't ever want to manage other people again.

I survived 2 layoffs in October 2022 and again in January 2023. My role is in the mortgage and real estate industry, but I mostly do odds and ends stuff that no one else in the company wants to do. I call it a Frankenstein role. A little bit of accounting, some sales, a pinch of marketing, customer service, even some legal stuff that I'm super uncomfortable with. But ya know, I'm the catch all role so I'm pretty sure that's the only reason they kept me around.

My husband also makes about the same income, but if either of us lost that income, we'd be screwed and savings would be drained in about 2 months.

We're heading into the slower winter months and Friday, Monday, and Tuesday, there was nothing to do. While I dislike my role, I still need a paycheck and I worry if they wise up and realize they don't need me, I'll get canned.

Just curious on y'alls thoughts and if anyone else out there has anxiety like I do on this topic. I'm open to a little tough love and real talk. Misery loves company.

Edit for spelling error.

Holidays and WTF are different from working in-office (unless you are being ruthlessly tracked.) When everyone else is gone and there’s no chance of getting pinged, do you ever consider saving PTO and “working” during the holidays? That seemed to be an unspoken rule with a former manager, who seemed to have the attitude of “why burn PTO when literally nothing is going on.” I don’t have that level of comfort at my current situation and am curious how others will be handling the upcoming holiday season.

I’ve been WFH since March 2020 and my setup is not great. I have an office space set up in the corner of the master bedroom because I need a space where I can shut a door. The other two bedrooms are occupied by my kids. Since I’ve been working from a desk that is 5 feet away from my bed it’s getting more difficult to shut off work mode at night.

The first floor of the house used to be open concept but at some point a brilliant idea was had to build up partial walls. So the ceilings are 12 feet but the partial walls end at 8 feet.

We have a semi-enclosed area that was created with these partial walls and I could add a door but it doesn’t fix the issue of sound traveling over the walls. Any thoughts or suggestions on how I could make this work? I can’t build additional walls because I don’t own the house, but there has to be a way of sectioning off a space.

My ideas so far consist of building a “cubicle” within the space and putting a sheet of plywood over the entire thing as a ceiling, along with another piece of plywood to serve as a door, but this gives strong “tree house built of scraps” energy.

Hi everyone-long time lurker, first time poster! I work at home adjusting insurance claims for a living. We were given 11 different options of shift choices for next year. I currently work 8:00-4:30 and I don’t mind it, just can’t figure out if I feel like any of these are a better option. What would YOU guys choose? And what would you recommend for me? I am a 29 year old woman living in Chicago, no kids

I have everything I need already, I’m a UX designer and researcher. Also, all the productivity apps I need for work are already paid for.

This is a U.S. based company and I live in India. So, $1500 for me is quite a lot! I’ve never had this before, Indian companies directly sent you whatever you needed in welcome kits, and the other remote jobs I worked for never really had these benefits. I asked already what it can be spent on, this is what they said -

“You can buy things like: work chair, table, monitors, headsets etc and claim them under this stipend.

We usually reimburse twice every year - so add your expenses to this sheet”

Since the year is about to end, I’ve been told to add mine before December.

Next year I’ll be getting $2000!

What would you spend it on? What else do you think I should ask my manager?