Chat jobs are some of the most sought-after non-phone work at home positions. It seems there are almost as many people who want to do this at home as there are people wanting to do work at home data entry!

Sadly, there are not as many opportunities out there for this as there are work at home phone jobs. 🙁

But, if you have small children at home with you, the majority of the phone-based jobs may not work. This is because of the “no background noise” requirement these companies typically have. So chat and/or email based customer service positions do seem ideal if that's your situation.

I've dug around today and compiled a list of the companies that hire (at least occasionally) for chat jobs. Please note the companies listed might not be hiring now for these positions.

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Chat Jobs From Home

Apple Chat Jobs

Apple regularly has openings from work from home iTunes chat advisors. This is a good position that pays well where you are considered an employee. You get paid training and benefits! The rate of pay varies from person to person depending on background, experience, and geographic location. However, I've never seen anyone claim it's a low amount and I believe for most it is in the teens. There is a lot of competition for these positions. Therefore, your chances of landing employment improve if you know at least something about Apple products. Apple will also send you an Apple computer to do your work on if you are hired.

Read my review of the Apple chat position here for more details.

Best Buy Home Based Chat Support Jobs

Best Buy has occasional work at home chat support openings. The work involves tech support, and you must have some experience providing tech support for Apple and Microsoft products as well as mobile apps. The position is open to all US states apart from California, Washington, Alaska and Puerto Rico.

You can go here to check and see if this position is listed.

Site Staff Chat Hosts

Site Staff occasionally hires work at home chat hosts. The nature of the chat support you provide will depend on the client. Pay is around $10 an hour and shifts last roughly four to five hours each. Note – Do not ask them about their work at home employment via the live chat on their site. You will get a canned response saying they do not respond to employment inquiries via chat.

WAH Adventures actually wrote up a thorough review of Site Staff here if you want to check it out. 

Needle Chat Shopping Support

Needle agents come to the aid of shoppers for various brands via chat. When this opportunity first came about, the pay was hourly and everyone was excited about it. However, I recently learned this company has now switched to a points system, which makes it an extra money opportunity only. And I say “extra money” loosely, because the only way to actually get money is to redeem your points for Visa gift cards. Definitely don't sign up for this if a steady income is what you need.

We have a review of Needle chat jobs posted if you'd like to learn more.

The Chat Shop Chat Jobs

The Chat Shop is a company based in the UK who provides chat agents for major companies. Even though they are based in the UK, it states on their job description for chat agents that your location is not important. However, you must have native-level English skills to qualify. Additionally, they require that you are able to put in 35 to 40 hours of work per week.

You can visit The Chat Shop here to see if this position is open now, or read our Chat Shop review for more details on how it works.

Ginger.io Mental Health Virtual Chat Jobs

This company offers comprehensive, 24/7 care for stress, anxiety, and depression. They hire work at home chat agents to live chat with people who are suffering from these problems. You do need to have experience and a degree in the mental health field before they will consider you for employment.

You can go here to check for openings at Ginger.io. This position is not always open.

Sedgwick CMS Email Support

Sedgwick does have an e-support (email support) and fax work at home position, although most of their at-home work is primarily phone-based. I did some reading though and apparently this e-support position is very hard to get in on. To check if they are hiring for e-support, visit the Career Center link and select Customer Service/Call Center in the “Area of Interest” drop-down. Then, hit the “Search” button and scroll through until you find the “E-support” position. If it's not there, keep checking back because they are sometimes in need of e-support reps.

Read our Sedgwick CMS jobs review to learn more.

Arise Chat Support

Arise apparently has a  lot of clients that are chat and email only, although much of what they have is just phone-based work. You can read this thread at Work Place Like Home to see which clients they have that offer chat/email work. One thing you should know about Arise is that it's not like your typical home-based phone job. You actually have to pay to incorporate yourself because it's sort of like you're starting a business. That said, Arise is NOT a scam. A lot of people conclude that it is because of the fees, but it isn't your run of the mill home-based phone job.

You can also read my write-up on Arise that explains how it works (including the fees and what they're there for).

Live Sales Staff Chat Jobs

Live Sales Staff is another company that offers chat-based customer support. I can't find a ton of information about them, but one thing I have learned is that they require you to work very long hours (12 hours shifts) and that the pay is not all that great. Their website doesn't have an application to fill out, you just have to email their HR department and contact them via chat.

Go here to check for openings at Live Sales Staff.

My Live Pro Occasional Chat Job Openings

My Live Pro is a company that offers chat services for website owners, and they claim to occasionally hire home-based chat agents to handle these chats. I've known about this company for a while, but their website always say they don't have openings. Apparently when they do have openings, they share it on their Facebook page, so you may want to follow them and set Facebook to alert you with a notification when this company posts anything so you don't miss it.

WAH Adventures has a review of My Live Pro here if you want more details.

Operator Shopping Chat Support

Operator hires people to work for $10 an hour plus commission, helping people make shopping decisions through their app. You chat with people real-time who have signed up to use Operator's service and help them find what they are looking for, then make the purchase for them.

Go here to apply or here to read our review of Operator.

Other Companies With Occasional Chat Jobs

Most of the companies I'm about to list are best known for their work at home customer service/phone support jobs, but they have all occasionally had some chat openings. So keep tabs on the openings at Sutherland, Teletech, Amazon, and Sykes.

Always use the phrase “work from home” in quotations in the job search boxes for these sites to see openings if you are prompted to search the jobs. This makes it easier because lots of times there will be many, many jobs listed.

A Few Tips For Finding More Chat Agent Jobs

You may want to keep your eyes on freelancer sites like Upwork for chat/email support positions because sometimes companies and individuals recruit workers for chat jobs through there. Also, you can do your own search for chat work at home via Indeed.com and FlexJobs.

Looking For More Legit Work at Home Jobs?

Here are a few things you can do (or do all 3!).

• Check out my e-book with a list of 150 companies that regularly hire home-based workers.
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• Visit my work at home job leads page to see what companies have had work at home openings recently.

Good luck in whatever you choose to do!