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How many are there? Not even people in finance/accounting can do that as they need to handle physical documents that must never leave the office. HR, marketing,
by throw5959 2y ago
How many are there? Not even people in finance/accounting can do that as they need to handle physical documents that must never leave the office. HR, marketing, sales people need to do the same and meet the humans. IT people seem to be the only group capable of doing so, I don't know anyone else in any other profession who would even consider 100% remote a possibility.
- paulryanrogers 2y agoMy uncle was a CPA who worked in finance for decades. His last few were partially or fully remote. Some consulting was onsite, but that was never a surprise and didn't change suddenly with the winds of management trends.
- throw5959 2y agoSo where does he keep his client's documents?
- paulryanrogers 2y agoOnline
- throw5959 2y agoLucky you, to live in such jurisdiction.
- no_wizard 2y agoMore than you're letting on. Entire finance departments can work from home, my company is 100% remote, its a fintech company that handles and processes sensitive stuff all day. Never impeded by regulation or data safety concerns, in fact, I think this company has better security practices than others I've worked for in the past to be quite honest. There is an illusion that security requires an office. Most of it comes down to 'can you trust X person' vs any locality stuff.
- throw5959 2y agoYou probably don't live in EU... Here it's illegal to not have the papers or to let them be taken away from the office.
- no_wizard 2y agoWe do have UK employees which I realize is decidedly not the EU though. We also have quite a few Canadian employees I'm unaware of any meaningful difference in practice when it comes to the work stream though. That said, I'm no lawyer nor an expert on the differences between the US (where I reside) and the rest of the world, in terms of specific data laws and handling procedures
- iosjunkie 2y agoFWIW, the vast majority of sales people I’ve spoken to over the past 5 years have been WFH/WFCS (work from coffee shop). Certainly for bigger deals they come onsite for the final stages of the sales process, but most interaction is handled remotely and they aren't in an office.
- throw5959 2y agoThey probably sell SaaS, don't they? What about industrial machinery, make up, whatever else?
- 6510 2y agoIt doesn't have to be entirely remote. I do manual labor. My manager (a very nice guy) must show up on location. After we talk about things I message him and repeat the very things we've talked about so that I have a written record of things. They have him drive around the country for useless chit chat. If I ask him why stuff isn't done it is always this same excuse. He has to go to meetings where the goal pretty much is to write my whatsapp message on a piece of paper and for other people to hear themselves talk. I sometimes jokingly ask him how it went. The usual response is PFFF, a 5 hour drive for nothing. He manages both the day and the night shifts which adds to the joke. I think we need to send in the environmentalists so that people can stop burning my gasoline, eroding my roads, killing the birds, stinking up my city, taking my parking spots and wearing out their car. I propose a special daily commute tax, a flat fee for the first 20 km with extras per additional km and a multiplier for each hour shorter than 8 before the return trip. Lets also do an office tax per square meter.