The Best Work From Home Side Gig in NYC

If you already work from home, you have something most people don't: you're already there. No commute in. No commute out. You're in your apartment all day.

The tasks are happening around you whether you're getting paid for them or not. Lunch is getting made. The kitchen gets cleaned. Laundry runs. You step out for a quick errand.

Shift pays you for all of it.

What Shift is

Shift is an app that pays $20/hr for footage of everyday household tasks. Companies need real footage of real people in real apartments — for AI training, for testing home products, for building better home technology.

You record while you do the tasks. No script. No performance. Just your normal apartment, your normal routine.

How it fits into a WFH day

The tasks are already happening. You're just adding a phone.

Morning: Make breakfast. Hit record before you start. Submit after.

Lunch break: Make lunch. 20–30 minutes. That's a recordable session.

After work: Cook dinner. Clean up. Another 45–60 minutes of footage.

Evening: Fold laundry while watching something. Run a quick errand. Both count.

You don't have to do extra tasks. You don't have to change your routine. You just have to be in your apartment, which you already are.

Why this works well in NYC

Working from home in NYC often means a small apartment with a tight kitchen. You cook at home because eating out every day would cost $30–50. You clean regularly because the space is small and it gets messy fast.

That's exactly what Shift is looking for. Small apartments. Real cooking. Normal routines. No staging required.

The math on WFH recording

Most WFH workers have 3–4 natural task windows in a day — morning, lunch, evening, maybe a quick errand. If you record 2 hours across those windows:

$40/day
$200/week (5 days)
$800–1,200/month

That's with no change to your routine. No extra commute. No second job to show up for.

What you need

A smartphone
A Shift account
Your normal daily tasks

That's it. No extra equipment, no interview, no background check.