I'm currently looking for a position that will allow me to wfh due to health issues.

8 Comments

1. Paulla Fetzek, MSEdMarch 5,2025 at 2:31PM UTC

   Hello!

   You can simply say something like, "Due to a medical condition I've had to be off work. However, I am now well enough I can return."

   WFH jobs are becoming incredibly scarce though - most employers, if they allow WFH, also want people in the office.

   You may check out disability sites to see if there are any companies specifically looking to hire those with health issues and want to WFH.

   All the best!

2. Michele DarleyMarch 6,2025 at 1:12PM UTC

   “Due to personal and family reasons I was unable to work during this time” explains a gap with no room for questions.

3. AnonymousMarch 6,2025 at 3:02PM UTC

   It certainly does leave room for questions, though maybe unsaid ones. I would not say “unable to work” because the employer is likely to wonder whether you are truly able to now or are going to have problems again.

4. Michele DarleyMarch 6,2025 at 4:52PM UTC

   I used that for my 4 year career break and nobody said a word - one of the people I ended up working for, in an executive search firm, said it was the most eloquent way she'd seen a gap explained. If a gap is explained, there's nothing to question. When you say personal and family, they are not allowed to question, Gaps are not questioned the way they used to be. I've also hired people with 10 year gaps in their career. Life happens. People have families. I'd rather see people take a break than hire someone who is so frazzled from their personal life that they're unable to perform at work and constantly taking time off to do it.

5. Tami L CannizzaroMarch 10,2025 at 4:46PM UTC

   I would leave it "personal" reasons without adding "family", to avoid subconscious bias toward women who have children. Employers are not allowed to ask us if we have kids - potential bias towards hiring, thinking we have other obligations/this may prevent us from working late/whatever - so why hand this information to them? It's not their business.

6. Maggie SoldanoMarch 6,2025 at 3:04PM UTC

   Make yourself more appealing by becoming an expert in applying AI tools in your specialization. Everyone is looking for that these days.

7. AnonymousMarch 11,2025 at 8:28PM UTC

   First things first, it’s not your fault that you haven’t gotten a WFH job. No one’s getting them. Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter how well-written your resume or cover letter is. You’re not likely to get a WFH job, even with a buttload of work experience. I’m sure that, by this point, you’ve realized this.

   WFH job openings, especially full-time ones with full employee benefits, often want someone who’s not only been working consistently, but also has years of experience in a given field. Employers treat a WFH job like a cookie that’s offered to special candidates who have 100% the exact kind of work experience they want and/or personally know the CEO of the company or the hiring manager for the job opening, not, for example, a necessity for those with health problems. That’s why the employees who work from home are often upper/senior management and leadership who’ve already worked in-office jobs at the same company for >3 years.

   I can speak from personal experience in how effing hard it is to get a WFH job. Any time I would try to get a WFH job outside of call center/customer service work, I’d get rejected immediately or in the 1st or 2nd round of interviews. Huge supply of talent + low demand for WFH employees from employers = low chance of earning WFH job. I eventually caved in and accepted an offer for a fully in-person job outside of call center work because my savings were getting rather low and I really, really didn’t wanna return to call center crap.

   Maybe see if you can earn a WFH independent contractor job (i.e., freelance work, as someone else mentioned) that’s part-time. That’s all I can think of. Sadly, the job market, much like society as a whole, isn’t very sympathetic to people’s health problems.

8. AnonymousMarch 15,2025 at 2:59PM UTC

   No, on job application clearly written not WFH not remote, but hybrid or onsite: Real estate scam not only cost your salary but also career growth. Your active life style saying you're well fit to work outdoor, not indoor. Stop being ghost by unethical recruiter, voting fraud, mail theft, payroll theft.