How much is a fully remote role worth to you?

[Paralytic]

When you work for top end companies certain standards are expected.

You can't whip out a Billy Bear Sausage Sandwich and bag of own brand crisps at lunchtime.

OMG, I really hope you're joking. You'd let someone else's food snobbery drive your decision making?

Nothing better than a bag of Pom Bears.

[edison]

When you work for top end companies certain standards are expected.

You can't whip out a Billy Bear Sausage Sandwich and bag of own brand crisps at lunchtime.

Really? I've worked at five FTSE100/Fortune 500 companies in recent times and two of those were in super swanky offices in central London. I honestly think nobody gave a toss about what I had for lunch. Another company I worked for is in Canary Wharf and again, I don't think anybody was watching what people brought in for their lunch.

Maybe investment banking is different?!?

[vetran]

Really? I've worked at five FTSE100/Fortune 500 companies in recent times and two of those were in super swanky offices in central London. I honestly think nobody gave a toss about what I had for lunch. Another company I worked for is in Canary Wharf and again, I don't think anybody was watching what people brought in for their lunch.

Maybe investment banking is different?!?

nah the the Dude had kipper sandwiches!

[TheDude]

Client has indicated that we will be moving from two to three days a week in the office.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking/amphetamines/sniffing glue/look for a new contract.

[PCTNN]

My client (public sector) is slowly implementing a 1 day a month in the office. In the last 9 months I went in the office 3 times already and it's actually nice to chat in person with my colleagues, go for coffees outside, get lunch. I find it perfect for now but I wouldn't go in more often than once a month.

[TheGreenBastard]

Client has indicated that we will be moving from two to three days a week in the office.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking/amphetamines/sniffing glue/look for a new contract.

Imagine how much power having multiple clients would give you over being arbitrarily called into the crèche. Oh sweet irony.

[Burns]

Before covid I actually liked going into the office and being around people, but after 3 years of fully remote I couldn't go back in. If nothing else, I live alone and can't leave the dog all day.

This is precisely the reason I work for and American consultancy. It'd be a hell of a commute to get to any of their clients.

To answer your question of how much a fully remote is worth to me, for me to visit a client site I would be charging my hourly rate from when I leave my house until I get home.

[BillHicksRIP]

"Well, Clarice. Have the lambs stopped screaming?".

[TheDude]

Imagine how much power having multiple clients would give you over being arbitrarily called into the crèche. Oh sweet irony.

1. I don't get called arbitrarily into the office.
2. It would be nigh on impossible to engage multiple financial services clients.

[saptastic]

Before covid I actually liked going into the office and being around people, but after 3 years of fully remote I couldn't go back in. If nothing else, I live alone and can't leave the dog all day.

This is precisely the reason I work for and American consultancy. It'd be a hell of a commute to get to any of their clients.

To answer your question of how much a fully remote is worth to me, for me to visit a client site I would be charging my hourly rate from when I leave my house until I get home.

I know lots of people with dogs now who have left jobs or refused to return (perm) when asked to be back in the office.
New world order.