Candidates

You could spend countless hours tying to find everything you need to start work at home. However, if you want a work at home job, and you want to know everything about it, One Recruitment is your surest shot at success.

1. Register with us as a Homeworker
2. Apply for a homeworking position
3. Our home working specialist will call you, and take you through the interview and selection process.

Homeworking Advice
Homeworkers have their jobs (usually practical work) based in their home. Teleworkers also do their normal (but usually office-based) work from home. Both kinds of homeworking have potential drawbacks and advantages.
A homeworker is anyone who only works from home. Many homeworkers in the UK are employed in manufacturing, making a wide range of items from footwear to car components.

Employment rights
As a homeworker, your employment rights depend on your legal status. There are three main categories: 'workers', 'employees' and 'self employed'. You should be aware that this isn't always the same as your tax status (so you can be self employed for tax purposes but be a 'worker' for employment rights purposes).

The National Minimum Wage
If you are a worker or employee, you will normally be entitled to the national minimum wage. Your employer may pay you by the amount of work you do, rather than by the hour ('piece work'). In that case you're entitled to the minimum wage rate either for all the hours you work or, if the 'fair piece rate' system is in operation, for 120 per cent of the hours that the average worker working for your employer would take to do the work you do. The effect of the system is that all except workers who are much slower than average, earn at least the minimum wage rate for the hours they actually put in.

Health and safety
If you're an employee working from home, your employer must make sure you're safe. They should carry out a risk assessment of where you work, identify any health and safety risks and take steps to reduce them.

Homeworkers must be careful when:

• handling loads
• using equipment from work
• using electrical equipment
• using certain hazardous substances or materials (for example, glue or adhesives)
• working with Visual Display Units for long periods

All homeworkers, whether self-employed or employed (especially new and expectant mothers), should take care if working on their own for long periods.

Bogus job offers
Some adverts for homeworking jobs are scams. Real jobs don't come with a fee, so never send money up front to people or companies who claim they can give you work at home.

A common scam involves adverts about addressing and stuffing envelopes which ask for a registration fee. If you pay the fee, you get advice to place adverts like the one you saw, but no actual work. Another asks for money for home assembly kits and promises your money back and payment for completed kits. However, the advertiser will pocket any money you send, claiming the kit you assembled didn't meet the required standard.

If you've been the victim of a homeworking scam, contact your local Trading Standards Department.

Teleworking
The main difference between 'homeworking' and 'teleworking' is that teleworkers, who may work full-time from home, are usually doing office work rather than practical work and frequently make use of computers and other electronic devices to do their work and communicate directly with their office base. Some teleworkers spend part of their week working in the office and part working at home. As with homeworking, your rights will depend on your employment status, if you are an 'employee' you will have the same rights as any other 'employee'.

Pros and cons of teleworking

Benefits include:

• more flexibility about the hours you work, allowing you to meet commitments at home, like childcare
• freeing up time and money that might be spent travelling
• helping to reduce stress

Drawbacks include:

• the possibility of feeling isolated
• missing out on office-based learning opportunities
• your employer may insist that you're available at home during normal working hours, so you may lose some of the flexibility which working from home can give
• you may have to sacrifice living space to set up a work station which will satisfy health and safety standards
• your employer is likely to insist that they must inspect your workstation to make sure it's suitable, meaning you'll have to let them into your home

Security risks
Data security may be at risk if you use a personal computer, so your employer may provide you with one. You will have to make sure that any visitors to your house don’t see any sensitive material you’re working with.

Typical Work At Home Jobs

We currently require home working candidates for the job categories listed below:

Data Entry
Document Coding
Virtual Assistants
Legal Transcription
Medical Transcription
Customer Service Reps
Technical Help Line
Freelance Writers
Proofreaders
Editors
Translators
Telemarketers
Online Tutors