Working at home is not to be confused with businesses that operate from shop houses, where home is just above the shop.

Even in the pre-Internet days, work at home options increases tremendously with jobs ranging from blue-collar to white-collar. Typical work at home jobs is clerical jobs, accounting etc. But these are still jobs.

Some work at home people operate small business from their homes, like producing bakery products, food sauces etc, but this is now not possible because of the strict hygiene enforcement by the NEA.

In the Internet era, work at home in Singapore has taken on a new meaning. People are running their own business from home using the Internet. The result is higher productivity and greater returns. Selling items on eBay is just one of the more easily done work at home business for many Singaporeans, some of them have been known to get quite wealthy from the venture. In fact learning how to sell on eBay can be a very rewarding extra curricular education.