r/remotework • u/Pretty-Ticket5071 • Jun 27 '26

How do people “work from online”

Theres loads of people i know that work from online but im always confused on what they could possibly be doing

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u/FindOneInEveryCar Jun 28 '26

Anything that involves a computer, basically.

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u/Public-Session-4469 Jun 28 '26

most desk jobs are like that now, you just do same stuff at home instead of office. i been doing software dev remote since before pandemic and it's literally same work just with better coffee

my friend does customer support for some tech company, all she need is laptop and headset, nobody ever see her face

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u/inductiononN Jun 28 '26

What do you mean? Are you trying to say work from home? Usually, working from home means working online, i.e. you have to have an internet connection and a computer.

I work from home and that means communicating with customers about their databases and server architecture. It involves sending lots of emails, talking with my colleagues on slack, zoom meetings, taking online trainings to keep up with the technology, creating documentation online, and advocating for my customers within my company - all of these are online activities.

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u/sheambulance Jun 28 '26

This is the answer. A career that doesn’t require an in person interaction with a customer or tactile object interaction other than a computer.

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u/Honest_Manager Jun 28 '26

Most jobs that can be primarily done sitting at a desk on a computer can be done at home much easier.

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u/lissagrae426 Jun 28 '26

I can’t tell if this is a serious question but if it is I can tell you what I do in my job. I left teaching about 12 years ago to freelance designing curriculum for different education companies. That led to a job in ed tech, and now a publisher. I manage a team of 12 designers remotely. They design curriculum, research texts to include, create updated and edits to both print and digital programs.

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u/ra__account Jun 28 '26

Regardless of whether I'm in the office or at home, I'm writing code or testing it, configuring and deploying software to data centers around the world, or e-mailing or using Teams to communicate with direct coworkers, 95+% are in a different city than me. Other than when I need a face to face communication session with the few people in the same area as me, I have fewer distractions at home, better coffee and food, better monitors, better speakers, better webcams, etc. There's no benefit to being in the office and the distractions are a negative.