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> Even though I had to go into an office, many people I worked with were somewhere else in the US. That's the thing. Over the last 10 years the vast majority o
by gutnor 10y ago
> Even though I had to go into an office, many people I worked with were somewhere else in the US.
That's the thing. Over the last 10 years the vast majority of my colleague, client and bosses were in remote countries. I worked with a guy that was the only one in the office for his team. His whole management hierarchy, all his colleagues where in other countries. Still management insisted he needed to come to work, wearing a suit as it was the standard in that office. (note that there were not even anybody to "see" that he was there, I guess the only reason is that remote working for permanent employee is quite difficult in the UK: you need a home office assessment, the company need to provide specific stuff, ...)
- mprev 10y agoI've worked from home in the uk for the past ten years and no one assessed my office and in one company I didn't even get a laptop. I'm curious what sort of company insisted on that.
- gutnor 10y agoNone, I have colleagues that received that and that led me to believe companies needed to do that. Not quite sure why they would request a guy to go mindlessly to an office where there is nobody of his management line and no colleague. To be fair, I worked for a company previously that didn't provide facilities for remote working as a general rule (i.e. access VPN that existed for sales), but I still had 1 colleague in my team that was working from home full time (i.e. using the VPN). So I guess it must be random.