Reply to: Remote working - this sums it up nicely

[darmstadt]

why does it matter to the companies where we work from
I for one would like to work from Spain or from some tropical island

Voila: Barbados Welcome Stamp '-' Work Remotely In Barbados

[eek]

Tax!

More importantly tax that was previously and otherwise not available...

And give the costs and damage Covid has done to most economies any and all sources of additional tax revenue will be grabbed at with both arms.

[SueEllen]

why does it matter to the companies where we work from
I for one would like to work from Spain or from some tropical island

Tax!

[Andy2]

why does it matter to the companies where we work from
I for one would like to work from Spain or from some tropical island

[vetran]

Which country is going to accept exceptional circumstances when there is tax available.

good point

[eek]

No argument about exceptional circumstances?

Which country is going to accept exceptional circumstances when there is tax available.

[vetran]

Sorry. Permanent Establishment. Happens when an employee can bind a company.

No argument about exceptional circumstances?

[jamesbrown]

PE?

Sorry. Permanent Establishment. Happens when an employee can bind a company.

[eek]

Interesting article in the FT this morning about banks panicking and ordering staff back home who had moved to their second homes overseas for fear of creating a PE.

PE?

[jamesbrown]

Interesting article in the FT this morning about banks panicking and ordering staff back home who had moved to their second homes overseas for fear of creating a PE.

[eek]

It doesn't have to be like that. In the last company the "offshored resources" would respond immediately.

All depends on the SLA rules that the company use. Internal offshore resources are going to be fairly quick responding - outsourced to an external company and the only thing that will matter is SLAs being vaguely hit.

[BlasterBates]

That's how it is when you work for a global company and the offices are all over the world. As for getting responses - try working with an outsourced team. Every query takes at least a day to get a response.

My current client spent millions on new offices for IT and other services. They're practially deserted now.

It doesn't have to be like that. In the last company the "offshored resources" would respond immediately.

[Whorty]

Yep, I'm back to being a hub between Singapore and Florida.

ha ha, a few roles ago I had similar, I had teams in Melbourne/Sydney, UK, and Florida. Those were long days, but good fun

[TwoWolves]

Once the outsourcing really takes off people will cool on the idea of remote working.

Google has already started pushing a lot of work to Poland.

Management will always find a way to ruin everything that makes our lives better.

[northernladuk]

This.

I've worked from home on and off since mid 90's when I was a consultant. It's fine for short periods, or the odd day prior to heading to client site, but I'd much prefer to be in the office. Keeping a separation between work and home life, for me anyway, is important.

Amen to this. My productivity went through the floor in the last few weeks. Really struggling with getting stuff done and just doing something else around the house. Started hot desking at various cafe's pubs and coffe chain shops a couple of day a week and I'm back to 100% and really look forward to my out of the house days.

IMO 100% working from home is going to bring as many problems to some people as it will solve for others. It's in no way the perfect answer to everything.