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10 superhero women working remotely

We come across two types of women who want to work remotely from home.  Some of them want to earn more, be successful in their career, and want to work remotely. They have the support of their family, which makes it very easy. Then there are others who want to have financial independence desperately because …

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How to get started with international remote work even if you have no high-demand skills

No skills? Here is what to do When we started working on talent arbitrage, we were determined to find out ways through which our learners can start earning on the side even before they acquired fully-developed  professional level skill sets, which could take 6 months to develop.  Your learning goes to the next level when …

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Top 10 work-from-home assignments 

As per FlexJobs 2023 State of Remote Freelance Jobs Report, here are the top 10 assignments: If you can already perform any of the above assignments, you may be able to secure some initial projects if you build your track record and do outreach.  However, if you want a high inflow of work and consistent …

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Work-from-home mothers built ~500 cr listed Indian edtech

In 2015, when we were working on our first startup iPleaders, we needed to hire very good lawyers to train our students because we were trying to build the world’s best legal education company. But it became impossible given the tiny budget we had.  Good lawyers earn a lot. Why will they come work for …

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Work-from-home moms, meet Priyanka & Komal

Priyanka Karwa, mother of 2, has been working with us remotely from Thane for the past 8 years. She lives with her family.  Hiring working mothers remotely has laid the foundation of our company even before the pandemic.  In 2015, when we were working on legal education at our first startup iPleaders, we were struggling …

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AI creating World War I moment for Indian women!

It is a well known fact that women’s employment rates increased sharply during World War I (1914-18), from about 23 percent of the working age population in 1914 to approximately 40 percent in 1918. This trend was particularly noticeable in Europe, where the majority of able-bodied men were drafted into armies and sent to battlefields …

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Separation anxiety, and why you never have to go through it again

One of the core childhood memories of my life is my mother leaving home for work, at 5.30 am every day. She found a teaching job in a high school when I was four and my sister was two. Classes began at 10 am. She had to catch a train at 6 am to reach …

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Hate public transport & rush hour? The answer is here!

To begin with, here are three reasons why remote work is better. 2. 3.  Got it? End of story! But there is just one other thing. There is no college or university that teaches you how to get a remote job or freelance work. On the other hand, we are an ed-tech company that enables …

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Here’s what remote work did for these ladies

Today, I want you to meet my colleagues Komal Shah, Priyanka Karwa, Sunayani Ganguly and Yajnaseni Chakraborty.  They are perfect examples of what we are trying to achieve with our free, upcoming online bootcamp on ‘Remote work revolution for women’. So here are their stories. Komal Shah Komal has been working remotely for almost six …