Reply to: How much is a fully remote role worth to you?

[vetran]

Plus expenses, of course!

We know a song about that!

[Protagoras]

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.

Plus expenses, of course!

[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.

[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.

[BillHicksRIP]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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!

[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?!?

[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.

[TheDude]

You don't have to pay for breakfast and lunch when you go into the office. Do you go out to buy those when you WFH?

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.

[wattaj]

I didn't say he said he had to. But, he was totting up the cost of going into the office, and included optional expenses into that. Those are his choices, not the cost of working from an office.

* Taps the title of this post *

"How much is a fully remote role worth to you?"

[Paralytic]

He didn't say he had to, he said that's what he spent.

I didn't say he said he had to. But, he was totting up the cost of going into the office, and included optional expenses into that. Those are his choices, not the cost of working from an office.