How do I get a job as a telecommuter/teleworker?
You don’t. You get a job to produce some useful output for an employer, with rewards to you commensurate with the results. At present, many potential employers do not want to risk working with an employee who doesn’t have considerable “face time” with them. That means that, unless you have skills so prized and scarce that the employer is willing to live with that uncertainty about your performance, you must spend some time in the employer’s offices before being allowed to telework. As technology improves, desktop video conferencing for example, and as employers become better accustomed to teleworking situations, that bias will relax. But right now the chances are that you’ll have to find an employer within reasonable commuting distance to get started. By the way, most employers of telecommuters are small- to medium-sized businesses. Unfortunately, we don’t keep a list of them. However, information intensive companies: banks, insurance, high tech developers, law firms, software companie
