How many of you 9-5s have been given work from home forever ?

My mate works for an Indian company and got WFH forever. I was in shock because I never thought any company can give a work from home option forever ? Does any Australian company gives you such an option ? If so, please name those companies and job titles so that I can start applying for jobs there.

CetaceanNeeded,

I work as a software engineer for an Australian bank. My team works remote except for one day a fortnight which is in office to have some meetings that work better in person and so we can catch up and go for lunch. However I didn’t go in for my last in office day because I had too much to do and it can be hard to get work done when we are in office.

yoz,

Feel sorry for devs. What a shitty job! I did it for an year and fucked off. Now working as a BA

tombruzzo,

Where I work went Work From Anywhere during Covid. I joined after the decision was made. They recently acquired a place in New Zealand and went about shutting down the head office to do the same over there.

They say there are no plans to get people back into an office but I wonder about that. There have been questionable business decisions up top that have affected my team and others, so I wonder if they’ll start getting people back in for the sake of ‘productivity’

Taleya,

yes since 2015. Workplace went remote, and my current one also supports remote. Husband also gets to work wherever the fuck he wants, does three in, two off, previously worked entirely from home but he dislikes it.

He’s a dev and i’m a network/ systems engineer though. IT has higher instances of this.

DavidDoesLemmy,
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Lots of software companies

yoz,

Name one

DavidDoesLemmy,
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Atlassian, block, build kite.

yoz,

There’s no WFH forever option at Attlassian so I think you just spilling BS

imoldgreeeg,
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Nah I know a few permanent WFH people at atlassian. The company makes a big deal about it so I would be surprised if it changed (this is in Aus)

yoz,

I used to work for Attlassian and they dont have an option to wfh forever.

DavidDoesLemmy,
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yoz,

Lol f off. Its not forever

DavidDoesLemmy,
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You mean one day people will die or leave the company? Or you think the company will change the policy?

yoz,

I mean once I start WFH, I’ll never be asked to come into office. The only way to contact me should be using a fucking laptop and I can travel around the world without thinking to come into the office.

hanrahan,
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Digital Nomadic workers have been a thing for a time, most of then are contractors though.

There’s 1000s of then on Telegram and Reddit (digitalnomads) discussing what’s doing… not sure about Lemmy ?

Why only work for an Australian company if your aim is to never come to the office ?

zik,

I work in software and we’re permanently work from home. (I don’t want to name my employer but they’re a medium sized company)

makingStuffForFun,
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We’re small. Very. But we all wfh forever. Software dev and support.

gumnut,

Same.

yoz,

Is it an Australian company ?

makingStuffForFun,
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Yes.

petey,

Same here

zero_gravitas,

You can just search for ‘fully remote’ on the job ad sites: www.seek.com.au/fully-remote-jobs

yoz,

Dont think these are forever ? They might give WFH for idk may be 6 months and then will say their policy changed.

zero_gravitas,

Well you can ask them if it’s fully remote forever, and then don’t sign a contract unless it also states that.

Nath,
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Not in WA. We mostly sailed through the whole Covid thing business as usual. There’s more work from home than there was before 2020, but I don’t know any company that has all its employees remote.

My employer has a few people working from home, but it’s usually because they’re working for customers in different states. It’s certainly not normal and not assured to always be remote.

slazer2au,

The trick is stop being an employee and start being an independent contractor. You decide how, when, and where to work.

Just be aware of all the other shit you now have to deal with like tax, insurance, super, etc.

yoz,

Lol thats not true. Contractors get treated worst than employees so no WFH for them.

slazer2au, (edited )

If you are a proper contractor not an employee paid as a contractor than you set your work terms because it becomes a B2B relationship not a e2e.

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