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I've been working remotely for a big bank for the past 7 years. I don't go into an office and haven't seen my team in the past 4 years. The last time people go

I've been working remotely for a big bank for the past 7 years. I don't go into an office and haven't seen my team in the past 4 years. The last time people got together for a project kickoff a few years back they just sat around a conference table all on webex. I stayed home. Unfortunately new management is taking away the remote option for new hires for the most part. Also some people based on where they live had to go back into the office. For myself, I never felt a difference in work, other than I didn't have to have headphones on all the time to try and get any work done in a cube and no tie. I did find that it can lead you to feel 'alone' during the day when wife is at work and kids at school I guess. Though after getting a dog who wants to play and go out it's not as bad :-). When I move on from this job, it will be VERY hard to not work at least some days remotely. There aren't a lot of jobs around here that offer that. That is a downside of doing this so long, it just becomes how you work and how your day is supposed to be. I've tuned my life around it.

stripe 12y ago
Do you know the reasons why management is moving away from working remotely? In an effort to attract and keep more talent the company for which I work allows working remotely more and more. Without that option the turn over rate for engineers would have doubled in the last year.
- quaffapint 12y ago
  The reason they went remote was to save money on real estate. They could sell buildings and get rid of leases. The specific reasons they no longer want to go remote has not been shared with us other than the usual 'we want more teamwork'. It's a shame. I tried to apply to other internal jobs, but they won't allow me to work remotely because of the new policy. So now they've severely limited their candidate pool and may have to look outside the bank and incur the costs that brings.
boothead 12y ago
Not seen that much remote work in banking. I work at an investment bank in London at the moment, and while I do have to option to work at home, it's only really supposed to be if you need to. With the state of public transport in London, it can't be long before they start looking at how much money they lose on a prticularly bad day of thier employees being stuch on a train somewhere!

stripe 12y ago

Do you know the reasons why management is moving away from working remotely? In an effort to attract and keep more talent the company for which I work allows working remotely more and more. Without that option the turn over rate for engineers would have doubled in the last year.

quaffapint 12y ago
The reason they went remote was to save money on real estate. They could sell buildings and get rid of leases. The specific reasons they no longer want to go remote has not been shared with us other than the usual 'we want more teamwork'. It's a shame. I tried to apply to other internal jobs, but they won't allow me to work remotely because of the new policy. So now they've severely limited their candidate pool and may have to look outside the bank and incur the costs that brings.

boothead 12y ago

Not seen that much remote work in banking. I work at an investment bank in London at the moment, and while I do have to option to work at home, it's only really supposed to be if you need to. With the state of public transport in London, it can't be long before they start looking at how much money they lose on a prticularly bad day of thier employees being stuch on a train somewhere!