Working from home has many advantages. No more traffic jams, no more travel time, but working from the place where you feel comfortable: your own home. What does working from home entail?
The benefits of working from home
The benefits of working from home are of course numerous: no more travel times, no traffic jams, and working from the place where you feel most comfortable. An ideal solution for people with children, but please note: if you have to make a phone call for work, for example, it is a requirement to be able to sit in a different room. It is of course not the intention that your customers on the other end of the line are inconvenienced by your crying baby, your screaming toddler, your barking dog or the postman who has just delivered a package to you.
Work from home: beware of scammers
Working from home; a popular vacancy. There are plenty of providers of homeworking, but it is important to separate the wheat from the chaff. Too many advertisements promise you mountains of gold, but in the end you only end up with a lot of frustration and an empty wallet.
How do you recognize unreliable home work providers?
A scammer obviously does not put on his/her site that he/she is a scammer. But using your EBV (Simple Farmers’ Sense) works wonders. Just consider:
- Have you ever heard of someone who made thousands of dollars a month by reading emails and taking surveys? No? That’s not surprising, because it simply doesn’t exist.
- Is it realistic to first incur (high) costs and/or make expensive investments, just to receive vacancies?
- Why should you call a 0900 number to register as a homeworker?
- What can people do with the information you enter? For example, your BSN number (former social security number) or the number of your bank or giro account?
- Why would a packing center from Delfzijl hire people from Maastricht? A company, when it has to bring work to the people, prefers not to travel too many kilometers… Unless you pay for those kilometers.
- Is it advisable to do business financially with people/companies for which you only have an email address and/or a mobile phone number (or: 0900 number)?
- Why would a potential employer pressure you to decide NOW? What does he/she have to lose if you want to sleep on it? Wake up!
Scammed by a work-from-home provider… What now?
We hope that you have not incurred too high costs, because in many cases it proves to be all too difficult to get your money back. To get started, you first need to know where to get it. This is the biggest risk when you do business with companies where you do not know who is there and where the company is located.
The next point is in the disclaimer that many home work providers put on their site. You know, a disclaimer is one of those things that contains all kinds of general terms and conditions that you have to click on separately to read. Something that too many people don’t do – unfortunately. Such a disclaimer may include text such as:
,Although we personally believe that you will be successful if you follow our instructions and use our products and services, we cannot guarantee that you will achieve any degree of success or income ,
Any income potential listed on our sales pages is for informational purposes only and should not be taken literally, nor should it be an indication of what you will earn.,
This indemnifies the company against the losses you suffer and the fact that you don’t earn a single cent, so that they do not have to pay you back according to the letter of the law.
Source: Logo of quality mark
Looking for reliable work from home
If you are looking for reliable homeworking, please get detailed information first. Google is your best friend. Checking a company, via the Chamber of Commerce, can also be a way to find out whether a company is reliable. But, again, using your common sense is the best advice in this case. Scammers promise you mountains of gold, reliable work-from-home organizations offer you a way to earn some extra money. Home work organizations that have the Home Work Quality Mark have already proven that they actually offer work from home. The Home Work Quality Mark is shown here.
Conclusion
Working from home can be a nice way to earn some extra money, but it won’t get you rich quick.