Work from Home Jobs by Remote Staff Philippines

October 15, 2008

Domesticating Work – the Remotestaff.com.ph Advantage

Networking companies lure members by emphasizing self-responsibility. Among the thought-provoking questions often thrown at us are: Would you like to work from home and earn more? Would you like to be your own boss and be responsible for yourself? Would you like to have a growing career and profit through your network?

These questions would surely entice employees who long to earn extra, fresh graduates who look for a shortcut to high gains and self-employed who are willing to invest their money and see it multiply.

On the other side of the fence, greener promises are offered by reputable and well-established corporations, such as call centers. They attract job hunters with a periodic salary, benefits ranging from health care to car incentives, high-percentage commissions, and possible promotions to the corporate ladder. In a nutshell, its primary charm is financial assurance, thus giving networking companies a stiff competition in luring people from the workforce.

Any member of the workforce whose focus is the achievement of his goals would find both options to be very alluring. Thus, he has to carefully look into not only the advantages but also the disadvantages. Let us proceed then to our investigation.

Multilevel marketing schemes, also known as networking, promote the following benefits:

Work from home. For most people, the home is the most convenience and comfortable place to work in. During lunch breaks, one does not have to eat at an overcrowded pantry where your elbow room is the size of your plate. He may just proceed to the kitchen and scour the fridge for some ready-for-reheating food or prepare a fifteen-minute meal recommended by Rachel Ray. Moreover, one can avoid anxiety attacks brought about by deciding on what to wear the follwing day or the next week to prevent fashion redundancy. He may just wear his peejays at home and start work. Lastly, one does not have to go the extra mile in extending kindness and patience to irksome colleagues because working from home lets him take advantage of the solitude and bliss.

Work stress-free. Apart from the convenience of working from home, stress can be relevantly reduced. No more wasting two hours of your life spent on whining over the traffic congestion in every street of Metro Manila. No more overloaded buses and MRTs with nothing to offer except SROs. With less stress, time and energy are better spent on a more active lifestyle and quality bonding with the family.

Be your own boss. With great power comes great responsibility. Well, it may not be a superpower, but being your own boss still comes with responsibility. You become responsible of your time leading you to learning time management. You become accountable to your decisions resulting in wise decision-makings.

Network marketing vs. Offshore Staffing

Bright as the benefits might appear to be, disadvantages also abound in such arrangements. To have higher profits, one has to sell more of the company products that may vary from discounted beauty products to unbearably priced food supplements. What’s more, he has to recruit more people so as to exceed, not just meet, the high-leverage quotas set on a monthly basis. Another disdvantage is the few success stories of networking members. Hundreds of networking companies promise high profits. What contributes to the dearth of such success stories (despite the numerous testimonials) is the get-rich-quick marketing and recruiting schemes that easily demoralize a member who lacks patience and suddenly realizes the impossibility of such a scheme.

On the other hand, the rise of business process outsourcing or BPOs in the Philippines also increased a Pinoy’s awareness to improve his English proficiency and the interest to have financial assurance.

Below are just some of the advantages of being employed becoming an outsourced staff:

Enjoy a regular salary and several benefits. If you do freelance work (read: you’re the boss!), cash flow may not be as regular as what companies can offer. If you are hired by a company, say a call center, as an entry-level employee, you will receive a semi-monthly pay unless stated otherwise in the contract. This way you can easily schedule the payment of your bills, bank transactions, and shopping, of course.

Stay at par with competition. Your competitive spirit will surely be pu to the test once you are hired by a company. As you work with your colleagues, you will realize that some, if not most, can be more talented, skilled or intelligent than you are. So you tend to outperform the others who appear to be better. If viewed optimistically, competition can be healthy and may result in mutual cooperation.

Ascend the corporate ladder. One of the opportunities presented to you as an employee is of career growth. From the ranks, you may find yourself rising to the managerial position. This vertical movement upgrades not only your salary but also your workload. Working from home where you are the boss cannot give you such an opportunity – to visualize yourself clawing your up using your skills and knowldge with a lot of help from perseverance and determination.

Being an employee of such corporations, you are tied not only to your contract but also to the drawbacks. You will be more exposed to stress – time observance, colleague competition, overtime for more profit, corporate standards, payroll deductions and others.

In philosophy, a thesis will always have an antithesis. A concession between the two will lead to a synthesis. Most Pinoys will think that the synthetic solution to enjoy self-responsibility and financial assurance is to look for overseas employment (or romance!). Once they have moved abroad, they become responsible of and to themselves. As an employee, they are also assured of financial security. However, the major disadvantage here is one has to be away from his friends, his family, his home. Thus, the ultimate synthesis to take advantage of all the benefits is opting for the offshore staff career path.

Based in Sydney, Australia, RemoteStaff.com.au provides offshore staff to several companies in Australia using the internet and softphones as the primary means of communication. Applications and matchings between offshore staff contractors and Filipino professionals are done online. As a virtual staff, you can enjoy the benefits of working from home (self-responsibility) and a periodic salary (financial assurance).

In the succeeding articles, you will find out the advantages far outnumber the disadvantages of becoming a contracted offshore staff under RemoteStaff.com.ph

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