WAHM is an online magazine about work at home jobs, opportunities, and lifestyle. The name is an
acronym
An acronym is a word or name formed from the initial components of a longer name or phrase. Acronyms are usually formed from the initial letters of words, as in ''NATO'' (''North Atlantic Treaty Organization''), but sometimes use syllables, as ...
for
"Work at Home Moms," though the magazine covers issues affecting all
home business
A home business or home-based business (HBB) is a small business that operates from the business owner's home office. In addition to location, home businesses are usually defined by having a very small number of employees, usually all immediate ...
workers and
remote workers, both male and female.
History
Software engineer Cheryl Demas founded WAHM in 1994 while herself a work at home mother. The site was initially targeted at
stay-at-home mothers who had started home-based side businesses.
As
remote work grew in popularity in corporate America, and later, as corporations tapped home-based workers as part of
outsourcing efforts, WAHM's focus widened to include home-based workers of all types. This includes people with small home side businesses and
remote workers working from home for companies of all sizes.
WAHM was acquired by
Internet Brands
MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands is an American new media company based in El Segundo, California, United States, that operates online media, community, and e-commerce sites in vertical markets. The company also develops and licenses internet ...
in 2008.
Site Functionality
WAHM features a magazine-style layout with a large library of articles related to the work-at-home lifestyle. The site also features home-based job listings and a
discussion forum
An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are often longer than one line of text, and are at least tempora ...
.
A large portion of the content on WAHM is focused on
scam
A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using their credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers hav ...
s such as
work-at-home scheme
A work-at-home scheme is a get-rich-quick scam in which a victim is lured by an offer to be employed at home, very often doing some simple task in a minimal amount of time with a large amount of income that far exceeds the market rate for the ...
s, and how to avoid them. WAHM's discussion forum is one of the places of the internet where readers can report work-at-home scams and read about them. Founder Cheryl Demas sometimes goes undercover and then she reports the scams that she has discovered in this way.
Recognitions and awards
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Examiner.com named WAHM one of the "ten best websites for parents" in 2008.
References
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Employment websites in the United States
Internet properties established in 1994