Virtual call center companies offer a great opportunity for those looking for a work from home job. For other types of work from home jobs, feel free to visit the work from home companies page.
What is a virtual call center?
Virtual call centers are call centers where the agents taking the calls do not work in an office together but instead all work remotely from home. Some well-known companies such as 1800Flowers, Uhaul, Nordstrom, and Disney offer virtual call center jobs from home but still obviously have office where they house other employees.
Virtual call center companies are beneficial to both employers and employees. It allows the company to save money in several different ways and allows those looking for a remote job to work for a well established company.
Other companies such as Sitel, West at Home, and Working Solutions are actual virtual call center companies. These types of companies get contracts with other companies to run their virtual call center on their behalf.
All virtual call center companies are different. Some assign you and train you on one client and you only take calls for that client. Others require you to take calls for a wide variety of clients. Most of them are customer service based but some require upsells or some sales skills. Almost all of them are incoming phone calls but there are a couple that ask you to do some outgoing calls as well.
For this reason is important to read the job description and do your research before applying or accepting a job so you know exactly what is involved.
Would a virtual call center job be a good fit for me?
If you begin your work from home job search without much experience then finding a position at a virtual call center company is a great option. Most only require a high school degree and some kind of customer service experience.
One big requirement most virtual call center companies have is a quiet work background. This is because most of these companies do not want the customers to know you are working from home. Moms with babies and toddlers at home may not be the best fit for these positions because of this unless you can work during a time they are sleeping or have someone to watch them in another part of the home during your shifts.
What do I do as a virtual call center agent?
The answer to this question varies by company. Most of these companies hire agents that take incoming customer service type calls helping customers place or check on their orders. Some of these companies are outgoing calls only and some do both. Most of the ones that do outgoing calls are more sales based and few of these are business to business sales. Before you apply with any of these companies decide what exactly you are comfortable doing as a call center agent and which ones would be a good fit for your specific situation.
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How much do I get paid and what are my benefits?
This also varies greatly from company to company. I would say most virtual call center jobs pay between $10-$12 an hour. Many of these companies bring agents on as independent contractors while others hire you as an employee. Being an independent contractor means a variety of things including the fact that you will have to figure out what that means for your taxes.
It also means you have the freedom to work for more than one company if you wish but that there are no benefits included in the job. Some of these jobs are full time but most are not. I know many people who work for a few of them to get the number of hours they desire each week.
Also, some of these companies pay by the hour regardless of how busy you are but some of them pay by the minute only when you are actually on a call. These are all factors you need to take into consideration when applying for one of these jobs.
Virtual Call Center Companies
- Alorica-Read our review-Become a Virtual Call Center Agent With Alorica
- 1800flowers-Read our review- 1800Flowers Work From Home
- Virtual Call Center Jobs With ACD Direct -incoming donation calls for PBS, etc., you do have to pay the fee to cover your background check if they decide to hire you-they can do this because you are a contractor not an employee. Some people do not want to do this which is totally understandable but it is a very legit company
- Accolade Support PC customer support agents- Read our review- Virtual Call Center
- Advanis-Take research surveys and perform data collection
- Make Money From Home with Amazon-customer service, inbound
- American Airlines-travel reservations
- American Express– Book travel for American Express card members
- American Support -customer service & sales, inbound & outbound
- Apple-customer service & tech support, inbound
- Home Based Call Center Jobs Working With Arise-depends on client, fees involved but company is legit
- Aspect(click on US- N/A under physical work location)
- Aspire-travel consultants, inbound & outbound
- Asurion -customer service
- Best Western Hotels– reservations
- BSG Clearing (This company does verification for sales calls-some positions are live operators who speak to someone and verify the sale and some are verifiers who listen to recordings of sales)
- Call Center 24×7-customer service and tech support
- Call Center International International virtual call center company who needs agents who speak a second language
- Call Center QA -perform mystery shops by phone
- Carnival Cruise Work From Home-take customer service or sales based phone calls
- Century Link-customer service and tech support
- Concentrix-customer service
- Contract World Jobs-inbound and outbound customer service
- Cruise.com-inbound customer service
- Customer Service Review hiring in home callers and evaluators that live in PA
- Cox Communications– customer service
- Cruise.com– customer service & sales, inbound
- Direct Interactions-customer service and tech support
- Disney Work at Home Call Center Jobs-take incoming calls for the Disney Store
- Ecallogy(only in the state of Utah at this time)
- Expert Planet-customer service
- Frontline Call Center – customer service
- GE Call Centers– customer service, inbound
- Grindstone– sales calls
- Higher One– customer service
- Hilton hires at home reservationists in Dallas and Tampa Telemarketing
- HSN(Home Shopping Network) (taking calls for items being sold on HSN)
- Infocision hiring call center agents in Ohio or West Virginia
- Intrep(some of their positions are business to business telemarketing appointment setting and lead generation, others are outgoing renewal calls to current customers)
- Intuit– customer service
- Ipsos NA– interviewers
- JLodge prefer to hire people with disabilities • http://www.specialdata.com/jobs.asp?category=5 (Florida residents only, answering incoming sales calls)
- Work From Home With Live Ops– inbound customer service
- Maritz Research– market research
- Micahtek OK residents only
- NTI Central(they hire people with disabilities to telecommute from home)
- NexRep– customer service & sales, inbound and outbound
- NextLevel Solutions– telemarketing
- Nordstrom– take incoming customer service calls
- Ocurrance– outbound sales
- Work from Home with OnPoint– advocacy coordinator positions
- Quest Diagnostics– interviewer
- Service 800– incoming customer service
- Sitel– customer service, inbound
- Smart Office Solutions– customer service
- Startek– customer service, inbound
- Starwood Hotels– reservations
- Working From Home With Sykes– clients vary may be inbound or outbound customer service
- Telcare Corp telephone survey agent, on site training in Boca Raton, FL
- Teletech-wide variety or work from home positions
- Transcom– customer service, sales & tech support, inbound
- Uhaul -customer service, inbound
- Verafast (work primarily with newspaper industry)
- VIPDesk– customer service and sales, inbound
- Westat(hire data collectors to work in their virtual call center doing research based calls)
- West At Home– customer service
- Williams Sonoma Work From Home– incoming customer service calls
- Working Solutions-customer service or sales based depending on client
- Xact Solutions– customer service, inbound- See our review at Work at Home Call Center Agent
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Meagan
Friday 17th of March 2023
What ever you do don't add The Virtual Call Center powered by Arise and owned by Toya Younger. That place is a scam, a joke, and a disgrace taking advantage of honest people that are looking for a real honest job.
lucila zambrano
Saturday 5th of February 2022
hi i am looking for call center job, i life in colombia, but i from venezuela. i have part time free. me english is medio. thakns
Diane Denise Brooks
Friday 14th of January 2022
I am looking for a work at home job as a Call Center Rep or Customer Service Rep and I am disabled but have a lot of experience the Medical Billing Field and Customer Service Field
Need a job asap
Youlandi
Friday 4th of June 2021
Please consider me to work from home.
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