It goes without saying that these are difficult and unusual times. The number of Americans that have filed for unemployment has hit over 6.6 million and many more will be adding to that number in the coming weeks. In March alone, 701,000 jobs were cut by employers in the United States.
A Job Quality Index, developed by Cornell Law School and others, finds that 37 million jobs may be at risk. A
ccording to the study, “The list assumes that the COVID-19 crisis does not ultimately result in widespread, long-term, layoffs of goods-producing workers (i.e. that the crisis will be of modest duration). It focuses on those workers in sectors that are effectively being forced to shut down as a result of social-distancing recommendations or shelter-in-place requirements.”
While everything is changing around us every single day, something that remains a constant is a fact that people need money. Online businesses, delivery services, grocery stores, and the like are busy like they’ve never been before. As a result, a number of companies within these industries are looking to hire people immediately.
We even have our own Facebook Group dedicated to remote work, Remote Digital Jobs.
Check out the list below to see 34 companies or search sites that offer remote jobs currently open:
• Aetna
• Amazon
• AngelList
• A Place for Mom
• Apple
• BMarko Structures
• Bellhops Online Service
• Collage.com
• CVS
• Dollar General
• Domino’s
• DoorDash
• GrubHub
• Humana
• Instacart
• Intuit
• Kelly Services
• Kroger
• Lionbridge
• LiveOps
• Nielsen
• Outschool
• PagerDuty
• Papa John’s
• Pizza Hut
• PepsiCo
• Publix
• Redox
• Rosetta Stone
• UnitedHealth Group
• Walgreens
• Walmart
• Williams-Sonoma
• Worldpay
• Xerox
• Zoom
Additionally, Get Hired via LinkedIn is continuously updating who is currently hiring. According to the description from curator Andrew Seaman, “Companies from industries spanning from technology to retail are hiring to meet increased demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Below is a regularly updated list of companies hiring right now.”
As noted, the list above are all companies and sites offering remote/work-from-home positions. The Get Hired list may include positions that require on-site work.
Staff Writer, Taylor Leddin is a publicist and freelance writer for a number of national outlets. She was featured on Thrive Global as a successful woman in journalism, and is the editor-in-chief of The Tidbit. Taylor resides in Chicago and has a Bachelor in Communication Studies from Illinois State University.
