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Private And Commercial Sites With Telework Interest 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. Private Sites (including commercial sites) These are sites that have telework or related information but don't act as national sites: 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 Advanced Workplace Associates UK-based Consultancy focused on flexible working and related premises and technology matters. Includes a news page and some case studies. Last visited 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 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 BIG guide to Government information age projects A more recent initiative from the useful Kable site, this is intended to provide a reference point for public sector Information Society projects world wide. There is a facility for users to "submit items". The range of projects is currently limited (February 2000), for example a search for "telework" yielded zero results. However a search for "tax" yielded three results from three different countries, all interesting. Last visited 16 February 2000 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 BlueTree.net Get paid to surf site, not yet operational ("expected launch March 2000). Plan to pay in US first, then Canada. Last visited 1 February 2000 Add your own comments about this resource BPT TELBANK S.A. BPT "TELBANK" SA is the telecommunication operator functioning in within the territory of the republic of Poland, in pursuance of the permission of the minister of Telecommunication.The range of activity of BPT includes providing telecommunication services and services in the area of installing, using and maintaining telecommunication networks and systems, as well as selling telecommunication equipment and systems. Last visited 26 November 1998 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 ClickWork (Netherlands) Job search and recruitment service in the Netherlands (in Dutch). Last visited 1 February 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource Crete Telework Network A useful site that lists hotels in Crete that offer teleworking facilities to holidaymakers and business travellers. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource Crew-Design A Get paid to surf programme. Not yet operational, promised for February 2000. Payments promised to be by bank transfer (SWIFT) or check drawn on a Dutch bank in US dollars (but with an admin charge of $7.50. $50 minimum payment. Higher than usual pay rate of $1.25 per hour. Their "What's new" page wishes us a Merry Christmas (February 2000). Last visited 1 February 2000 Add your own comments about this resource Cyberworkers : telework and internet Attractively designed site but with limited content. Although the home page suggests multiple languages much of the site appears to be in Frenc only. There is a (French language) discussion forum. Last visited 24 November 1998 Add your own comments about this resource Czech Republic national page at European Telework Online Pages of links and information maintained in Czech and in English at the eto site and also at a national site. Last visited 14 June 1999 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 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 DN.Jobb - jobsearch in Sweden Job search and recruitments site in Sweden (in Swedish). Last visited 28 February 2000 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 enter-by.net The organisation for Swedish teleworkers Now there is enter-by.net, the network for all self-employed teleworkers. Last visited 25 November 1998 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 European Forum for Work Organisation This is the website of ECTF (European Community Telework / Telematics Forum) and still appears to carry the same material as before, though recent printed literature now refers to The European Forum for Work Organisation and there is also now a new institution W.I.S.E. - Work, Information Society and Employment Forum - which is not mentioned in the pages at this site. The site appears not to be maintained? Last visited 29 January 1999 Add your own comments about this resource fish4jobs uk Job search and recruitment service for UK with a good flow of jobs. Specify location by region or by county (or "any"), search on job title or "category" (meaning sector). No mention of telework/telecommuting. A user has pointed out that one can use 'Work from Home' as a search term, but this actually yields any job that has the term "home" in its description. There is also a "job channels" feature that helps to narrow the job search. Last visited 16 February 2001 What others have said | 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 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 Freelancers.net UK based site at which freelancers (self employed specialists) can create a profile of their skills, plus a portfolio showing work completed, and can specifiy what types of contracts they are looking for (eg telecommute). Companies looking for a contractor can post information about projects and can search for contractors. The search is skills based and the skills are mainly ICT product skills with a strong emphasis on web-related work. There doesn't appear to be a search facility but the jobs can be listed by category. No evidence of the success rate. Last visited 31 March 2000 Add your own comments about this resource FreetimeJobs.com The idea at this site is that you have "a few hours to spare" and would like to earn extra money. You have to register to view the jobs database, then you bid for jobs selected from a single long list. Jobs are displayed ten at a time, in no apparent order (perhaps order of submission?). The registration lists most countries. A fair proportion of the jobs listed are really "business opportunities". There appears to be no follow through to find out what happened once an advertiser and a freetimer get together? We'd like to hear from anyone who has had paid work (as opposed to business opportunities) through this service please! Last visited 31 March 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource gazeta - jobsearch poland Job search and recruitment service. In Polish. Click on "What others have said" (below) for comments from a Polish-speaker resident in UK. Last visited 3 May 2001 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource GetStarted with BT A site providing advice and links for those starting a business for the first time, or considering this. UK-oriented but much of the content is more general. Many of the links are to chargeable services or products, but there is a useful page of downloadable pdf files on a range of business topics. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource Government Computing (UK) The website provides information about the magazine Government Computing (UK) but not the content of the magazine, which is available on a paid subscription basis - free of charge to subscribers in the target audience. Last visited 16 February 2000 Add your own comments about this resource Home Office Partnership UK consultancy specialising in telework and related applications. There are pages about flexible working; process improvement; organisation development; property strategy; technology strategy; web development. The technology page addresses general guidance about approaches, rather than specific technologies. Last visited 28 February 2000 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 HTMail ** Provisionally recommended by European Telework Online ** A UK-based pay-to-read-email programme. One of the few such programmes that declares the name and address of the owner. Payment is US $ 0.08 (or UK £0.05) for reading a message and double this amount when you visit an advertised site. For each message you have to visit either the home site or the advertiser to earn money. As with other email programmes their referral offer is one layer only, see our FAQ: "Getting paid to read emails - does it work?" We are testing this service but it is provisionally recommended. Last visited 28 January 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 IMT-2000-online IMT-2000 online is the ITU's name for the third generation mobile phones. Otherwise known as 3G, UMTS etc. This useful site has a large number of categorised links to information about 3G mobile communications. Last visited 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 InfoPol A pay-to-read-mail programme with two unusual characteristics. (1) It is based in Finland; and (2) their website shows a list of the countries with number of subscribers in each country. At mid-January 2000, there were 6727 total, with half of them being in Russia. The English language pages are rather messy and lacking in information, perhaps the Russian ones are more attractive, or perhaps this is the only such site with pages in Russian? Last visited 28 January 2000 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 Employment Studies The website lists current and recent research activities and publications and provides background to main research themes. 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 ITPA - Information Technology Professionals Association Website for the ITPA section of the large UK trade union MSF. ITPA has a particular focus on telework and other information society matters. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource Job Cafe This site may have failed - no content found as at May 2001? (it was) A site offering to match people to job opportunities. Linked with the StepStone group. There is an open jobs database that can be searched. Many of the jobs appear to have been on the database for a long time, so there may not be a purge process? There is a facility to list only "recently posted" jobs. No mention of teleworking? All in Italian. Any information please? Last visited 3 May 2001 What others have said | 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 Jobpilot (UK) A standard site that lists and searches job advertisements and enables job seekers to upload CVs. Jobs are classified as "permanent", "entry position" or "freelance contract", locations as "UK", "Euope" or "Worldwide". Ads can be posted and searched in different languages, which is an unusual and attractive approach to internationalisation. No mention of teleworking or off site working. Last visited 27 March 2000 Add your own comments about this resource JobServe (UK) A site focused on "IT vacancies in the UK", but with 10% of its vacancies outside UK. Job seekers can search for contract work or "permanent" employment and can specify the recency of postings, for example "within 5 working days". The search terms "home", "telework", "off site" may produce teleworkable jobs, but with no specific provision for teleworking. You may also provide a CV (resume) that will be circulated to recruitment agencies. There is also a directory of recruitment agencies. Employers are asked to "call the sales team". Last visited 31 March 2000 What others have said | 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 Kable A commercial site focused on news and information about IT and telecommunications use in and by the public sector in the UK. Weekly news update, links to Government Computing magazine, Events information, and a subscription based market intelligence service. Last visited 10 February 2000 What others have said | 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 mangomind mangomind is an Internet-based file sharing service that provides, on a per month service basis, multi-user, multi-point access to securely stored files. A useful feature is that users can work on files offline and the service automatically handles synchronisation when the user re-connects. There is a 30 day free trial. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource MIRTI - Model of Industrial Relations in Telework Innovation MIRTI has collected and published a valuable set of information about real examples of telework, focusing on contractual and labour relations aspects. Available online or as a CD-ROM. Site was not accessible at 17 June 1999. Last visited 17 June 1999 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 NeGRAL Corporation Information in English and Magyar (Hungarian) about IT development and related services offered by NeGRAL on a teleworking basis. This includes web site development. Pricing is in local (Hungarian) currency. There is a selection of their technology for downloading, plus a simple website voting facility. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource Net Profit Website for Net Profit, a non-technical newsletter about business on the Internet. Sample issues available online. Includes statistical information and analysis about e-commerce and related matters. Last visited 14 June 1999 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource Netherlands Telework Forum Homesite of the Netherlands Telework Forum. FAQs, discussion, knowledge base describing all known telework studies. Website is in Dutch; knowledge base contains English descriptions of some studies but access is in Dutch. There is some related information in English at http://www.eto.org.uk/nat/nl/index.htm (European Telework Online Netherlands page). Last visited 25 November 1998 Add your own comments about this resource NOTE - NOmadic Teleworking business Environment Website for the ESPRIT project NOTE. Describes the project's objectives and what it espects to deliver. Some pages (links, demonstrations) under construction as at 17 May 1999. Last visited 14 June 1999 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 PanEris The blurb here says "PanEris is home to a collective of web developers working together as a virtual corporation." Though its not overtly clear there appears to be an invitation to join. The site seems to be a working demonstration of the team's capabilities. Recently (February 2000 moved to a new domain, many of the "old site" pages hadn't changed since 1998 when last visited in January 2000. There is a collection of "message boards" at the site, but difficult to understand the connection between the message boards and the stated purpose of the site as a whole. The private discussions of the team appear entangled with public discussions, and it appears that anyone can join. Interesting . . . . for example, there is an apparently open discussion of "Sales Leads", including potential customers' phone numbers. Comments from someone connected to the Paneris "community" would be welcome please! Last visited 13 March 2000 What others have said | 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 $9.00. Last visited 29 January 2000 Add your own comments about this resource PaysU.com A Get paid to surf site. Not yet operational ("We will keep you posted on the exact date"). Payments promised in US$ or Sterling (UK £) or Euros (EU, Norway, Switzerland). Some novel ideas, for example credits for visiting the service's home page. ?UK based? (company details not obvious from site). Last visited 1 February 2000 What others have said | 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 Regus Regus provides office space and facilities in the same way that an international car rental company provides cars - you use the Regus office nearest to where you happen to be at any time. A wide range of related services includes video conferencing, physical and telephone reception and managed space. Last visited 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 sharkhunt UK-based Get paid to surf programme, payments currently made only to UK residents. Rate is £0.25 per hour. Last visited 29 January 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource smarterwork.com A UK-based commercial "finding work" site that is focused on contract work and where the mechanism actively favours a teleworking approach. The site maintains a register of "experts" able to work in particular types of projects, and enables "clients" to post project details against which experts can bid. A list of current projects with current lowest bid appears on the public site, registered experts get more detail. Project approval, payments and resolution of disagreement are handled by the service. Uniquely, so far as we have observed, the "experts" are screened through an online testing or an offline screening before being allowed to bid for projects. Of two tests taken our tester failed one but passed the other (you do get another chance and we passed at second try!). There are now ten categories of projects - Business Consulting, Research, Document Production, Web Build Support, Legal, Software Development, Graphic Design, Writing & Editing, Tax, Translation. In some categories projects are further classified by language (English, German, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish). One issue is the very wide range of bid prices at which "experts" offer to complete projects. For example one February 2001 project showed top bid over GBP4400, lowest bid below GBP40, a factor of 100 times. Last visited 16 February 2001 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 StepStone This review based on StepStone's UK service. Services appear to vary between countries, see for example Jobs Cafe in Italy, which has a very different interface and apparently a different approach. Other countries appear to run the same model as in the UK. Job seekers can register free of charge. The search includes local country and other European posts. Search response appears to be slow? Employers pay to advertise posts, and can include links to their own sites. Many advertisers are recruitment agencies. The charging rates are not disclosed at the site? No mention of telework or temporary/contract posts, this is an online facility for conventional recruitment. At March 2000 the UK site reported 15000 UK vacancies and 77000 "in Europe", across a wide range of sectors, with 60,000 job seekers' profiles. Last visited 13 March 2000 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 SW2000 Teleworking Studies Site presenting the work and interests of Noel Hodson, a UK based Telework specialist who has done widely recognised work in the field of telework business cases and quantification of benefits. Last visited 14 June 1999 Add your own comments about this resource T4D Telework Platform Mainly for people with disabilities (pointed out by eto user Miranda Hodgson). Main facilities are a database in which teleworkers can enter offers of services and skills and potential employers can offer work opportunities. When tested (13 May 1999) there appeared to be some 4-5 such offers in the system. At 16 December 99 the registration link (supplied from another site) seemed to be inoperative). Last visited 14 June 1999 What others have said | 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 TeleAdapt Online TeleAdapt. Mobile connectivity solutions for the laptop traveler Last visited 28 November 1998 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 2000 A UK project investigating the potential impact of telecommuting on transport use, congestion and environmental damage. Last visited 8 February 2000 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 TeleMart Website of a European project about matching employers to teleworkers. Confidence is not helped by the fact that (a) the "News" page at January 2000 promised that Telemart "will be opening for business in November 1998." and (b) key links such as the "Teleworkers Forum" don't work. This was still the case in March 2000. If you cannot move from the home page. look for the button to the bottom right of the page (hidden in a narrow window). Last visited 13 March 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource Telework Unlimited Telework Unlimited provides a free of charge service in which teleworkers can post their offers of skills and employers can post offers of work. The offers of work are relatively few in number but some appear to be both genuine and current. Most offers are in German. The site owners also undertake telework related projects. Alhough most menu items are in both English and German, most of the detailed content is in German only. Last visited 25 November 1998 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource The (UK) Teleworkers Web Site This is a site run on a voluntary basis by Mick Trott to help UK-based teleworkers find work opportunities. Teleworkers can upload their personal profiles into one or more skills categories, prospective customers or employers can search for skills they need. No records are kept so we don't know about its success or otherwise. The site also has helpful ideas about selling your services as a teleworker. Last visited 1 December 1998 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource TimeSmart (BT) A website targeting "mobile and flexible workers" but most of the material and links are either fairly general or are promoting specific BT services. The services promoted are mainly UK-specific. The site has an tendency to over-use pop up windows, which some will find irritating. 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 Tolson Messenger (UK) - Insuring the Homeworker Provides specialist insurance advice and services for teleworkers and home based workers. Online facilities for requesting quotations. 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 UMTS Forum Not-for-profit association of companies focused on UMTS/IMT-2000 ("third generation") mobile communications systems. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource UNI (Union Network International) Formed 1 January 2000 through the amalgamation of several existing international trade union federations. Site carries press releases, information about UNI events and policies. Last visited Add your own comments about this resource UniversalScience.com [This site appears to be in suspension as at September 2000. Any news please use the "Add your comments" link below] A Get paid to surf programme. No set payment rates ("members will be paid thirty percent(30%) of all the profit of the program"). Payments quarterly. Lots of (very) small print. FAQs link actually goes to a sign up page. Not clear whether any payment has actually been made. Nor the geographic spread. Last visited 20 September 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource UNTPDC - UNCTAD Tradepoint Development Center Support centre for the United Nations Trade Point programme. Some of the descriptive material here appears rather dated. Trade Points use ETOs (Electronic Trading Opportunities). Last visited 26 November 1998 Add your own comments about this resource urge2net Not yet operational (January 2000), "In the coming weeks . . . ". Will pay in "$urfDollar$" that can be redeemed for cash in US and Canada (but not Quebec!) (at January 2000). Payment rates variable. 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 Work-At-Home-Dot.Com A no-charge site with many links to information and services related to opportunities for home based businesses. USA focused. Many of the links are to "get paid to surf" or "make money working at home" types of "opportunities". Last visited 13 March 2000 What others have said | 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 Zeus: Teleworking in Greece In addition to a links page and some explanations of teleworking, the site invites visitors to "join the Greek Teleworking Network", which appears to be part of the Telemart programme, but the Telemart programme itself appears to be defunct. Further comments welcome please? Last visited 13 March 2000 What others have said | Add your own comments about this resource