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There are so many ways to find jobs online, whether in your local labor/retail market or remote work/telecommuting, but Google has just made looking for a job easier in the most streamlined way.

Google is smart, no doubt about it, and getting smarter every day. While Google prefers job posting sites to pay for their job postings, many have circumvented the pay-per-click feature, and just exploit the search engine’s organic results at no cost.

No problem, then Google should get full credit for providing those customized results to Google users looking for work, either in-person or working from home, whatever suits you. A few tweaks to the search algorithm and voilà, you have Google’s brand of ultimate job postings board.

All you have to do is to go to Google and type jobs near me in the search box and hit enter (or click the magnifying glass) there you have it: A preview of the top few jobs will show, but if yu look below the sample list and click on “100+ more jobs” BAM! All the local job postings near you from all the job boards pop up in one convenient listing of search results.

Want to refine your search even more add a quantifier to your search query, such as “part time” would look something, like this:

You can select jobs from pre-determined categories or refine your search query even more.

And if you are looking for remote work, just add “telecommute” to your query and see everything you can apply for today that you can perform your work from home.

If you have the inclination to surf through the top 10 rated job posting sites for 2021, then take a look at these:

The Top 10 Best Job Search Websites of 2021

Indeed: Top job search engine
Monster: Classic monster job searches
Glassdoor: Excellent resources for employer data
FlexJobs: Telecommuting and remote jobs galore
The Ladders: For managers and leaders on their way up
AngelList: For upstarts and new businesses news
LinkedIn: Recruiters’ and head hunters’ top resource
LinkUp: Up-to-date job search listings
Scouted: Scouts in search of college graduates
Snagajob: Hourly job resources

CraigsList

But that’s not all, craigslist is another resource, though it is not considered to be one of the top ten job posting boards, it still receives over a million job postings per day. Originally, job postings were free, so the offers were not that good and included a lot of spammy or scammy offers. Since they started charging for job postings, it has helped to filter out the riff-raff.

Facebook Jobs

Whether you are a fan of Facebook, or not, whatever you think about Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 billion fortune, his job posting service on Facebook is becoming a contender in the job search arena, and you might like to check it out at https://www.facebook.com/jobs/

We Work Remotely

I have a friend and associate who has been working remotely for years, he is a nomad, travels around in his RV around the USA, free as a bird, yet is always employed whenever and from wherever he wants. He uses We Work Remotely for all his teleworking gigs.

This seems a natural fit for telecommuters looking for side-gigs for a little moonlighting adventure in their professional lives.

As much as you have sought to make all the accommodations so that your staff can work from home, even so, your remote worker is looking for another job online. The HR departments of all surviving employers are out there raising the bar, offering more perks and benefits to entice your employees to jump ship, and your people are taking notice.

And if you are thinking that your employees are looking forward to returning to the grind of showing up at your office every day to report to work, be forewarned, an overwhelming percentage of your telecommuting employees would gladly take a pay cut for the chance to continue to work from home following the lifting of pandemic restrictions. Remote work is the future.

If you subtract state, federal, and municipal telecommuters from the equation, 80 percent of teleworkers are looking for a better deal online. Your competition knows this, and they are making their intentions known, because if nothing else, the pandemic has alerted your staff that their earning potential is no longer limited by location. They can now work anywhere in the world, while never having to leave their homes.

And for those workers who were restrained to metropolitan living to accommodate their daily commutes to and from work, they are moving away from the hustle and bustle. Why? They are seeking a better life, freedom from the stress and strain of being a part of the rat race, reduction in the cost of living, and to relocate closer to the families they moved away from to seek grand employment opportunities.

This is forcing small businesses who are doing their best to adapt and survive throughout the lingering effects of the coronavirus outbreak to focus on increasing benefits to telecommuting employees to retain the current workforce.

You are going to have to reevaluate your incentives to stay competitive and increase employee retention during these unprecedented times.

Here are some ideas you can up the ante for employee retention:

1. Loosen the Reigns

If you’ve been tracking your remote workers like the Dickens, then you might start thinking about other methods of tracking your employees’ performance while they are working from home. Teleworkers are not fond of thinking they are being micromanaged or spied upon. Other firms who empower their employees to be responsible for themselves in delivering the goods are consistently seeing record-breaking results from their work-from-homers.

2. Health Benefits

Medical insurance is a highly sought perk for telecommuters. For small businesses, this might be too much of a nut to crack, so think about offering health benefits, like health club memberships, or offer to go halfsies on a treadmill they can use to stay fit at home. Be creative.

3. Workspace Assistance

If you could see the conditions that remote workers are working under to deliver the results you are looking for while they are working from home, you might be surprised that they are working in less than complimentary conditions, while perched on the sofa or curled up in bed with their laptop because they do not have an adequate home workspace. You can offer matching incentives or provide your remote workers with a basic workspace set up.

4. Employee Vacations

Many employers offer vacation time where employees earn a percentage of the hours they’ve worked back in hours to be spent while on vacations, but the growing trend is to also offer a stipend incentive to subsidize the actual cost of getting out and taking a vacation, and not just holding up inside your home, and watching TV. Statistics prove that vacationing teleworkers are the most productive and feel more content while they are on-the-clock.

5. Increased Flexibility

If you empower your employees to adjust their hours to their own schedules, they feel a higher degree of affinity with their employers. If you want to keep them, let them make their own schedules and allow them to even undercut their hours and sacrifice a few unpaid hours to tend to personal details. You gain long-term reliability and increased job performance. So, lighten up.

It looks like your staff’s preference is to continue to work from home even after the pandemic restrictions are lifted, so it behooves you to pay attention to this emerging trend of our new normal and start to make accommodations for employee retention.