Coffee Badging: The New Pushback to Returning to the Office

[riverwed070707]

Sounds like there are more of us here who work remotely and aren't "call center" employees. My husband has been in executive leadership for the last 10 years and manages remote teams and his colleagues are remote. They do some amazing things. Given their ranking by revenue, profitability, and size, I think they're effective in how they manage their teams and remote work.

What I do is small beans comparatively, but again, I've been working remotely hybrid or full since 2007. Our "industry" has really embraced it and we are more productive and skilled than ever. The people who can't do it get weeded out and find a spot back working in an office, which is fine. Those are the people who need rigidity, someone to tell them when work starts and when work is over, and to focus and pay attention.

The new company I work for allows for 45 days of remote work outside our home state, since they are not set up to do business in every state. When I mentioned to my new boss we typically "winter" in California for a month, she said not a problem, the company officially blesses those kinds of things.

For many it really is a whole new way of living and working. I think it's better this way, for what we do. I have good relationships with my colleagues, we don't need to spend 8-12 hours of our day together to be productive.

My company rolled out a program last year where you can now work remotely from any country we do business in for up to 25 days per year, not including weekends and holidays and you can tack on PTO as well. We have offices in the Netherlands, England, Singapore, Austrailia, Germany, France, Japan... Pretty cool! Although I do find it a challenge to work from that far outside the US time zones, I'd love to take advantage of a summer in Europe or Asia at some point

[ua_guy]

My company rolled out a program last year where you can now work remotely from any country we do business in for up to 25 days per year, not including weekends and holidays and you can tack on PTO as well. We have offices in the Netherlands, England, Singapore, Austrailia, Germany, France, Japan... Pretty cool! Although I do find it a challenge to work from that far outside the US time zones, I'd love to take advantage of a summer in Europe or Asia at some point

That is so awesome that your company supports that. I feel like it's those kinds of things that make us "employees" feel like we're part of something truly great. And that our employers value us as whole people, not just for what we contribute during working hours.