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Telework Related Web Sites Outside Europe One of a set of pages providing commented links to telework related web sites. For each link we show: the date the linked site was last visited by a member of the ETO Site Team a link to other users' comments, where available an invitation for you to comment on the sites we have linked Your comments are warmly welcomed and will be very helpful to the site team and to other users - or you can choose for your comments to be seen only by the ETO Site Team. At the foot of the page you will also find an opportunity for you to add another site for listing in these pages. Thanks for your help in making this a valuable resource for all users. Sites Outside Europe The following sites carry useful local/national and/or general information about telework: 4Telecommuting.com (at 4Anything.com) Articles, FAQs and links about telecommuting. US-orientation but some International content and links. Last visited What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource 6FigureJobs Job search website for professionals. Individuals can post resumes (CVs) and search for free. Employers pay a fee to post vacancies charged for searching the CVs. The database allows for countries other than USA but the overwhelming majority of vacancies appear to be US-based. There may be telework jobs in there but no way to tell - the search is geographically oriented and the search terms "telework" and "telecommute" only produce results if the advertiser happens to have used that term in the job description. It would be useful for the site to give some kind of indications of the numbers of vacancies by category, so as to avoid making searches which yield no vancancies. Last visited 12 September 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource About.Com Telecommuting Site A wide collection of links and articles about telecommuting, including a web-based discussion forum. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource Ad4Me Site is difficult to access, too many pop up windows Service "will be available in about four months". Last visited 29 January 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource Advocates for Remote Employment and the Virtual Office (AREVO) A page explaining "Remote Employment" and "Virtual Office" concepts, benefits etc. and encouraging initiatives and actions in this field. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource AllAdvantage.Com Sadly, this - one of the few such schemes we felt able to recommend, having actually received payments from it - appears to have died. We'd welcome any background comments from participants? Last visited 25 March 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource AllCommunity Their "get paid to surf" programme is not yet active (January 2000), although their home page says "You can now get paid to surf the web". The current offers are "get paid to read emails" and "get paid to use a particular ISP" (in some countries - no list found). Claims to pay anywhere in the world, but minimum payment is $100, so first payment may be slow to come. Last visited 28 January 2000 Add your own comments about this resource ants.com ants.com started as a site matching projects to contractors but now this has been de-emphasised in favour of a software product (contact management). The site displays listings of contract projects submitted by employers, to which contractors can respond. Responses are also displayed online so the introduction becomes a kind of cost/quality auction. For example (May 2001) a database design project sized by the customer at 160 hours of work appeared to have bids ranging from £110 down to $5 - presumably these are per hour rates! Search interface shows categories and numbers of "open" projects, but detailed listing continue (irritatingly) to show "closed" projects. For example it suggested there are 1396 "computer" projects but only 42 of these were live (May 2001). Mainly USA based projects; not all are teleworkable. As usual some payment by results and business propositions. Last visited 3 May 2001 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource AT&T Telework Guide Useful material for corporate teleworkers and their managers and for those considering corporate telework. An excellent example of a commercial company presenting useful information in an accessible way and with the sales message effective but unobtrusive. Last visited 14 June 1999 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource BePaid.com Get paid to surf programme that says it will pay (by US $ check) in US, Canada, EU countries, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. "Up to $2 per check deducted for bank fees". "More countries later this year". Facility available from "tentative date February 2000". User selects Ads to view, ads visible 5-30 seconds, selected Ads pay from £20 per hour. We will test this service if/when it becomes live. Last visited 29 January 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource BigReferral A Get paid to refer others programme, plus cashback for purchasing. The site carries a "pre launch" graphic but the rest of the material implies the service is already running. We are investigating further. Last visited 16 February 2000 Add your own comments about this resource Canadian Telework Association A page about the Association embedded in the Innovisions Canada website. Includes a long page of links (but without descriptions); discussion of the Canada "telework scene" and the USA scene; some statistics and FAQs. There is a free membership form. Last visited 28 February 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource careers.wsj.com Backed by the Wall Street Journal, this started as a site for "executive, managerial and professional jobs". Locations are USA (each state) plus a single "International" category. There are linked "global partners" in UK, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, Sweden. There is no reference to teleworking/telecommuting. The site has now linked with FreeAgent.com (a contract work site, see separate review) and with FutureStep, the online service of headhunters Korn Ferry, see that review also. Last visited 12 September 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource CashSurfers Current service is standard "paid to surf" but site promises additional options, "not available yet". Rates variable according to their advertising revenues, couldn't find current/recent rates at site. Claims to be "available all over the world". We have raised some questions about this. Had system problems during December 1999. Last visited 28 January 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource ClickDough Site seems very slow. Basic payment is said to 50% of advertising revenue but reading between the lines the advertising revenue has been disappointing. You are urged instead to follow through on "Member Offers", eg "Sign up with Amex Blue Card and earn $20". Some of these offers are probably inaccessible outside of the USA. No FAQs visible and generally little detail. To understand the system you have to plough through "Founder's letters". We find it difficult to understand why there isn't an explanatory set of FAQs, but maybe the system changes too frequently? Last visited 29 January 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource ClickMail An unusual Get paid to surf site. Their description of how it works and how payments are determined is difficult to penetrate! Last visited 1 February 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource Darter Telecommuter Telework/Telecommuting site in Africa run by an individual consultant. The first pages are very "busy" with lots of graphics, making them slow to download - to date we have not been able to achieve a fast enough link to properly review the site. There may be lots of good stuff here, difficult to tell. An option of information pages with much less graphic clutter would be helpful . . . Reviews welcomed please! Last visited Add your own comments about this resource Desktop Horizon Not yet operational (January 2000). Online since mid-1999. Available "shortly". Payment is in credits (DHCDs) not in cash. "Will not be redeemable in cash during first few months". Last visited 28 January 2000 Add your own comments about this resource DesktopDollars.com This facility is active but not yet paying - "You will begin accruing time for regular payment on February 15, 1999". Earnings are credited to a "ClixCard" that can be used at "ATM machines around the world and withdraw money in your local currency"- a good idea, but only "when it becomes available" and it will then cost $1.50 deducted from any credits. Last visited 28 January 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource Discover CBT Discover CBT was set up by a group of telecommuters to produce computer based training courses. These courses are designed for telecommuters. They can be downloaded over the internet onto your PC. One course, 'Time Management for Telecommuters' is downloadable as a sample free of charge. Note: the file is about 2.7 Megabytes and the site doesn't warn you about this! Last visited Add your own comments about this resource elance Site for matching "buyers and sellers of services", or freelance contracting work. Buyers post RFPs (Request for Project), Sellers can respond to these or post their own "Fixed Price Services" looking for customers. The bids appear to be on public view, leading to potential price warring. Oddly, the site still carries a "beta" label one year after the "public launch of full version", which was reported as August 1999. Quite a few messages in the elance forum about bad experiences with non-paying or otherwise suspect customers/projects. Elance does run a payments system, but this is available only to those with a USA credit card (according to their help page, August 2000). Last visited 8 August 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource Eoffice USA-based service that handles contractual, invoicing, collection and tax reporting for freelance contractors. Part of FreeAgent.com (which see). Membership costs $274 a month. Strongly US-oriented. Last visited 16 February 2001 Add your own comments about this resource ePIPO New site, with their "surf window" currently on "restricted availability" (January 2000). Planned deployment is USA then Canada then UK then ??? Proposed basic rate is $0.60 per hour online. Last visited 28 January 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource Euro-Med Net Conference Report [Note: site not accessible, 25 March 1999] The EuroMed Net ’98 Conference on “The role of Internet and the World Wide Web in developing the Euro-Mediterranean Information Society” brought together over 350 delegates from the European Union and Mediterranean countries. The conference was held in Nicosia, Cyprus, organised jointly by the European Commission, the Government of Cyprus and the University of Cyprus. Last visited 25 March 1999 Add your own comments about this resource Fleming LTD Web site of David Fleming (Fleming Ltd) Telework Consulting in Davis, California, USA. Regular guest commentaries, news, and a good page of telework links. Last visited 29 November 1998 Add your own comments about this resource Free Telecommuting Jobs.com This site now has a quite effective search facility, clustering jobs within categories. However there appear to be very few jobs! There is also a facility to post a CV (Resume), but with relatively few resumes loaded. Perhaps the site is not being promoted effectively enough? Last visited 16 February 2001 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource Free2net.com A "get paid to surf" programme - currently (June 2000) USA only. The site lacks a FAQ section so you have to search around for the details. Payment is in "Ad$ points" per hour for up to five hours a day. Hour 1 = $0.30, hours 2 through 4 = $0.20, hour 5 = $0.10 (average = $0.20). Referrals are unusual at $2.00 per referral one time commission. Minimum payout is $30 in a "PayPal" account (see separate report). Or you can wait and get $50 by check. Last visited What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource FreeAgent.com Online service for "freelancers, consultants and independent contractors". No charge to individuals. Includes profile online, project search. When searched in August 2000 there appear to be plenty of contracts but many of them are "on site" and almost all are in the US or Canada. Quite a high proportion of the jobs are really "run your own business" opportunities or commission only posts. Last visited 16 February 2001 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource GetPaid4 Appears now to be operational (April 2000), but there appear to be some technical issues, since the "GetPaid4 bar" is being updated very frequently. Minimum payment is $15. One novelty is that there is an "administration fee" deducted from earnings ($2 a month). If in any month you earn less than or equal to $2 your earnings are cancelled off. FAQs say that they will send US dollar cheques anywhere in the world. Payment rates not fixed, but dependent on their income from advertisers - information needed please from anyone who has actually clocked up any earnings from GetPaid4??? Last visited 28 January 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource GoToWorld.com This one presents national flags for available countries across its home page and presents national sites. Listed are N America, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Japan, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, UK. However, the FAQ says "We are only able to pay US and Canada residents at this time". We are checking this out as there is some inconsistency in the impressions given at the site. Last visited 28 January 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource Home2Work.com USA-based (and USA-focused) site where job-hunters and employers can post advertisements. One attractive feature is that the types of "classified ads" are clearly categorised and the numbers of ads in each category is shown. However this needs re-thinking for categories reach a high volume of postings. For example there is a category for "Job Listings - Telecommute Full Time/Contract Nationwide" (for USA but not for global telecommuters). At 16 February 2001 this section listed 147 postings, by 1 May 2001 it had split into two, with 242 in one and 59 in the other - quite a task to crawl through on the off-chance that there might be something suitable to your skills. Also there now (May 2001) appear to be two near-identical categories of this type. The first few "full time jobs" we looked at were not paid employment, they were of the "get rich quick" or "run your own business", payment-by-results type. Some ads from people looking for work are mixed in - better editing needed! Last visited 3 May 2001 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource HotYello98.com A "Get paid to refer new participants" programme. You sign up for a "free website", and you website carries a banner offering free website and other services. If someone joins through your site you get commission. If they or people who join through them buy products or services through HotYellow98.com you get further commission. Sounds good. But when you sign up the "validation process" takes you through a long, hard sell that attempts to get you signed up to the "executive programme" - in other words to "send money". We are testing out the "free" service. USA-based - no indication of geographic or other focus or limitations, but their forms only work if you claim to live in a US state. Last visited 28 February 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource ignifuge A site that pays users on the basis of visits to the site. US and Canada only, "we plan to make ignifuge.com available all around the world". Not clear whether the programme has really started ("We are still in negotiation with advertising agencies to get the highest rates"). Last visited 1 February 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource Independent Homeworkers Alliance Main purpose of site is job search for home based work. A paid subscription is required and soliciting subscriptions is a dominant feature of the site. Subscription includes an up-front payment (around $30) and a monthly fee (around $10). Last visited What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource InnoVisions Canada InnoVisions Canada is consulting organisation focused on telework, telecommuting and flexible work. Useful information and links relating to telework in Canada. Also host site for Canadian Telework Association. Frequently updated news snippets on home page. Last visited 3 May 2001 Add your own comments about this resource InnoVisions Canada Jobs Bank This is a badged "front" linking to monster.ca, a generalised job search engine focused on jobs in Canada. No recognition of teleworking/telecommuting, since the first "selection" criterion is "Location"! Last visited 3 May 2001 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) at MIT The website provides access to research across the work and employment spectrum, much of which has relevance to telework and telecommuting. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource Interagency Telecommuting Program This website brings together a range of links and materials supporting telecommuting programmes both within the US administration and in US industry generally. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource International Flexwork Forum Website of an organisation that supports and promotes flexible working ideas and actions in Japan. Useful material about telework in Japan. Sadly, the website appears not to be maintained up to date (at least this is true of the English language version). The "Hot issues" currently (September 2000) is a newsletter of March 1999. Last visited 14 June 1999 Add your own comments about this resource International Teleconferencing Association Membership organisation for those interested in teleconferencing on a professional basis. Appears to be mainly organisations. Subscriptions from $6250 (sponsoring member) to $125 (individual) and $35 (student). Site appears not to be very active - as at 25 March 1999 an event from 8-11 March is the main feature, forecast with "more information soon"! Last visited 29 November 1998 Add your own comments about this resource International Telework Association and Council A membership organisation (individual subscription $45 annually). There are other classes of membership eg telework manager ($125), Consultant ($165), Government/non-profit organisations ($350), Corporate (from $1,000) and Sponsor ($5,000). The website provides a question-answering service, buyers' guide and some links to other telework-related sources. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource Internet Home Employment This site presents a long and busy home page, with links to pages selling advertisement space. However the main offer at the site itself is to sell you a set of get rich quick guides. When we first reviewed the site it sold an "electronic book" called "Legitimate Home Employment" - on sale at $19.99. By February 2001 it had gone to $35.00, "reduced from $50"! Now (May 2001) there is another "special offer" - if you buy before midnight tonight (2 May) you get lots of ebooks and other goodies for only $49.99, reduced from $99.99. Need we add that the "value" is claimed to be $700. All with lots of capital letters and exclamation points!!!! Be interesting to see what the offer is next week. We asked for comments from those who had bought in, the two respondents to date wrote rave reviews . . . but perhaps they bought in to the reseller scheme? Last visited 3 May 2001 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource ITAC The International Telework Association and Council (ITAC). A membership organisation, annual subscription from $45 (teleworker) to $165 (consultant) and also corporate membership schemes. The website seems to be undergoing redevelopment (February 2000) with some sections no longer operational (eg events, links, faqs, discussion). Last visited 28 November 1998 Add your own comments about this resource itadsUp Not yet operational, the ads server was released in beta form 8 January 2000. First advertising contract signed December 1999. Claims to pay by US check "to most locations" (subject to legal restrictions?). Last visited 28 January 2000 Add your own comments about this resource Job Options (also known as deja.com Career Center) Users can search for job advertisements, search for an employer, post a resume (CV). Also "career tools" that are strongly USA-centric. Jobs mainly USA - there was an "international" section but with (apparently) few jobs when we looked in February 2000. In March this section seemed to have disappeared. Last visited 13 March 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource Jobvertise This system provides a resource through which any website owner can add a "jobs page" to their website, as well as providing a fairly typical job search facility direct to users. Four of the first five "jobs" found when browsing the "most recent 100" were actually commission based or run-your-own-business types of jobs. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource Jotter Jotter is an unusual kind of "get paid to surf" offering, in that it has a number of user functions as well as running advertisements. Otherwise the programme appears similar to AllAdvantage. We have asked about geographic limitations, which are not mentioned in the jotter site. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource Kasamba! A question-answering service. Visitors post a question, "experts" answer the question and may offer their services for a fee, which they determine. Anyone may register as an "expert". The idea is that clients will search for the expert they need and start a dialogue leading to chargeable work. Lots of experts signed up, there appears to be no way to know how many clients have appeared. But the "public board" carries very few questions, a year after it was launched. Last visited 3 May 2001 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource KeyChange A commercial consultancy services that has some content about teleworking and some about e-commerce. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource KeyChange Outsourcing Register (Australia) A facility in which contractors can enter a personal profile that can be searched by prospective clients. The search is based on keywords entered into fields, would be greatly improved by adding some self-declarative information about the database contents, eg how many people there are in some obvious categories. Keyword search is not an effective way to search for skills/experience. Last visited What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource moneyformail.com Pays a good rate for receiving and looking at emails (between $.20 - $2.50 they say), requests (but no longer requires) USA social security ID for validation check. Non-USA residents can join but the company confirms that they are not yet paying outside US and "not actively seeking International (meaning non-US_ advertisers. Referral programme is only one layer (See our FAQ: Getting paid to read emails - does it work?). Last visited 29 January 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource mValue Get paid to surf programme paying $0.50 per hour, effective start date was 24 January 2000. Payments only to USA residents. They also provide an "mPrivacy" facility that they say enables users to selectively prevent visited web sites from collecting information about the user. Last visited 29 January 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource Nevada, Missouri: America's First Telecommunity The Nevada Telecommunity Project is a rural economic development initiative that was launched in 1995. Its goal is to create new economic opportunities in Nevada, Missouri, through the use of advanced telecommunications capabilities. The home page was last updated April 1999. Last visited 28 November 1998 Add your own comments about this resource NuAspect.Com A facility for contracting out elements of software development to programmers through NuAspect as an intermediary. There is a membership fee (company or programmer $20, consultant $200 - the consultant acts as a project manager should the customer need this). At March 2000 the introductory free offer was still open. There were 207 programmers registered for work. Last visited 13 March 2000 Add your own comments about this resource OfficeTech A web based "virtual staffing" service offering to match employers with teleworkers on a contract or employee recruitment basis. Teleworkers can register without paying any fees or subscriptions, employers are charged a finders fee for successful introductions. Teleworkers "world wide" are invited to register. When matched to an opportunity the teleworker has to negotiate terms with the employing company direct. OfficeTech charges the employer an introduction fee. The specialisation listed for teleworkers are a mix of office/clerical tasks and some rather generalised professional tasks such as "Information Technology" and "Web design and development". Last visited 13 March 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource Open World Partnership A programme to develop (in developing economies) "economic environments in which firms of all size can flourish", with a strong emphasis on e-commerce. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource PayBar Get paid to surf programme, currently paying only in the USA. $0.60 for viewing 1000 ads, maximum 15000 ads per month, ie $9.00. Last visited 29 January 2000 Add your own comments about this resource Perpetual income This is a "Downline club" - see other FAQs for definition. Nothing happens until . . . Last visited Add your own comments about this resource prizewindow.com A get paid to surf service based in Ontario, Canada and currently with active availability in US, UK, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and New Zealand. Payment is logged in "prizepoints" that are then converted into money ($ US) at a variable rate dependent on how much advertising revenue has been received and how many total prizepoints were gained. One user's experience suggests the rate may be rather low (see review). Last visited What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource Rainbow Light This is an "affiliate marketing" programme - you earn commission on sales of their products (food supplements), using the Internet by referring people to their website. Available only to people who have a USA "mailing address" (as at February 2000). Last visited Add your own comments about this resource Regulus Consulting Also called "RemoteWorkCentral.com. A USA-based company providing a range of outsourcing services on a teleworking and non-telework basis, plus consulting and services for companies adopting telework methods. There is a "Careers" section that describes the range of types of work available through Regulus and example profiles of current opportunities. Projects may include "full-time telework, on-site work or travel". The job search facility claims to search many databases but doesn't come up with any telework jobs? You can submit a resume but see "What others have said" below. Last visited 3 May 2001 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource sendmoreinfo.com ** Provisionally Selected by European Telework Online** A pay-to-read-email system. You have to open the mail and click on a link to drive the counter. Payment monthly, minimum $10 (at 0.05c per message, by US dollar cheque (you can change this if $10 is an unattractive amount because of local banking charges). Referrals system is one level - this seems common in email programmes - see our FAQ: "Getting paid to receive emails - does it work?" We are still testing this service but it is provisionally recommended. Last visited 29 January 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource SmartGroups.com A web-based facility supporting group collaboration online; includes forums, calendar, messaging, document sharing, voting. There are public groups at the site but anyone can join and start a group. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource SPEDIA A get paid to surf programme that pays so long as users visit "at least on new url per minute" (typical European Telework Online users visit the site for an average of 12-14 minutes and stay on a page for 1-3 minutes}. We have asked what is meant by "new url"! There is no fixed payment basis, it is "a percentage of advertising revenue". The most recent rate declared as at February 2000 was the October 1999 rate, equivalent to $0.47 per hour. Payment is in US $ to users "anywhere". Last visited What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource surf2web.com Australia-based Get paid to surf site. Payment programme promised start is 10 February 2000. Payments in Australian dollars, minimum 40 (=$25 US) "mailed to anywhere in the world". Variable rate, target being AUD 0.60 per hour. Claims 90 advertisers. Last visited 29 January 2000 Add your own comments about this resource Surfing2Cash The FAQs say (for USA) "it will be a couple of weeks before you are able to download your Cash Console and get paid to surf" and for others: "hopes to have the Cash Console available to Canadian, Russian and UK members in early February" and "will be available to over 50 country’s in the near future" (all as at January 2000). Pay rate for USA is $0.60 per hour. Last visited 29 January 2000 Add your own comments about this resource TeknoSurf This is another name used by GetPaid4. Not yet operational. Last visited 1 February 2000 Add your own comments about this resource Telecommute Magazine Once you get past the big graphic that is the home page, and worked out that you click on the image to get into the site, there are lots of features, including a forum and a links page, plus a facility for loading your profile and a job search facility, which links to HeadHunter.net, JobBank USA and Workaholics4Hire.com. Last visited 13 March 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource Telecommuting Jobs Job seekers can search a database of jobs. The job description is written directly by the job advertiser, enabling direct contract. Most of the "jobs" we examined appear to be freelance contracts rather than employment, and usually at fairly low (or undisclosed) pay rates. The job lists generally show only a one or two word title so you have to look at many to see whether they are suitable for you. Employers almost all USA based. At 13 March 2000 there was a confusing advertisement on the home pagefrom IHA (The Independent Homeworkers Alliance) - it looks like the site's search facility! Last visited 13 March 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource TeleTask (Australia) TeleTask is a website marketing the skills of teleworkers and other freelancers. There are also some FAQs for teleworkers, some of which are derived from the European Telework Online FAQs. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource Telework New Zealand A cleanly presented website with a well-indexed range of short items covering a wide range of telework-related issues and questions. For the outside visitors it would be useful to have some more about telework in NZ? Last visited Add your own comments about this resource TManage Inc.: Isn't it time someone delivered on the promise of telework? TManage is a commercial operation offering support services to North American enterprises to assist their telecommuter programmes. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource Total e-mail A pay-to-read-email programme. Not yet operational (? but their FAQ said "should all be finished by January 1, 2000" - at mid January!) Open to members in "any country that supports the English language, so long as their laws permit it". However, "Details on payment options, such as minimum balance before you receive a check for members in countries other than the USA are still being worked out". We have asked about this and the timetable. Last visited 29 January 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource unWIRED: unwiring the world Proposals - jointly promoted by Media Lab at MIT and the Costa Rican Foundation for Sustainable Development - to bring Information Society and Networked Economy benefits to remote villages in developing economies using wireless technologies. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource ValuePay Claims to be the largest payment-for-time facility. Confusion about non-USA availability, one FAQ says "Yes, all are welcome", another says "it will be released in countries outside USA a few weeks later". We have asked for clarification. Payment rate variable. Ads delivered can be targeted to individual user. Monthly payment, minimum $50. Last visited 29 January 2000 Add your own comments about this resource ViewDot.com A Get paid to surf site. Not yet operational (promised for "mid-February 2000"). Pay rates US $0.55 per hour. "Anyone if the world can join". We have asked about this. Last visited 1 February 2000 Add your own comments about this resource VIPBenefits.com New and not yet operational, but pages slow to load (poor html design). "Available in a few short weeks" at mid January 2000. Proposed $0.60 payment rate. "International rollout will begin in a couple of months". Last visited 29 January 2000 Add your own comments about this resource WantedJobs The site provides a free downloadable software package that assists job-hunting. Focus is employers in USA, there is also and International version. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource Web Staffers This is a subscription based site, specialising in home-based employment/work. They "create a resume (CV) for you" and "submit it to thousands of employers who are looking for people to do home based work". Subscription ranges from $US 29 to $US 65. If you try out this service or have already tried it we'd like to hear about your experiences. To date we have had one favourable and one very negative comment (see "What others have said" below. Last visited What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource Workaholics4hire.com A jobs database. USA oriented. In order to search you are required to complete a profile and subscribe to an email newsletter. There are some added value services for employers, and a discussion forum. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource Working Moms Refuge Lively, well presented USA site targeted at working mothers. Telecommuting is juts one of many topics featured. Last visited 8 February 1999 Add your own comments about this resource