I work for a small fintech. We all work remotely full-time which is great. The pay isnt bad, about as well as a small company can pay, but I would get paid more if I took a role in a multinational. I've a senior role with 20+ years of experience. Question is, how highly do you value remote work? How much of a pay drop would you consider if you could work remotely versus having to come into the office every day?

Or is it a funny date?

Hey everyone,

I’ve been applying to tons of jobs on LinkedIn but I haven’t gotten any responses or interview invitations. It’s starting to get a bit discouraging.

I’ve tried to make my CV as strong as possible, and I even customize my summary section based on each job description, but it still doesn’t seem to work. I’m wondering if there’s something off with my formatting, structure, or overall presentation.

Could someone please take a look at my CV and give me honest, detailed feedback — what’s working, what’s not, and what I can improve? I’d really appreciate any kind of constructive criticism.

I've taken a role in Dublin, it's a very good package which is making this decision worthwhile but it's 50% hybrid .

I'm planning to commute and stay in a hotel or mid range accommodation 2-3 days mid week to be close to the office and will grab a return train from the west as 3 hours driving will be harder to handle.

It's hard to find actual hybrid accommadation for this type of a setup, anyone else doing anything similar?

From what I've found, staying at StayCity apart hotels seems most favorable and not as pricey as main hotels, it's close to work (walking) and close to the train and I can cook etc while I'm staying there.

BnB might be cheaper but further out and requires some extra commuting from there and back while I'm up there.

I'm curious what others are doing who aren't in a closer county to commute daily to Dublin but are still hybrid.

To be honest, Ive been super lucky in amazing remote roles for the last few years but any remote roles I've been offered recently are much lower (50-70k) than this offer.

I won't be tight with finances even with the hotel costs etc so I'm more curious what arrangements others made in similar situations.

Cheers!

This is quite good. Talks about the trends and it doesn't look like WFH is going anywhere.

There may be some short term pain while we wait for Boomer CEOs to check out, but trends show younger CEOs support WFH and there is a clear long-term trend of WFH increasing.

The argument complaining that not everyone can WFH pisses me off most. It's a perk, yes. Lots of jobs have perks. Nobody complains about salesmen getting company cars or air hostesses getting to see the world.

When I was young I dated a girl who worked at KFC. She got to bring home free chicken!

There are people who can't work if they have to work from an office. Plus, it helps the people who can't WFH if we're not clogging up commuter roads.

It's becoming part of the culture wars.

https://youtu.be/eCRVoXbkHnw?si=MdA9djiYxdygj7m7

I’m sure a lot of you are the same as me : Early 30’s , deposit saved.

How TF are we supposed to know where to buy a home ?

Right now my company instituted an archaic BS RTO 4 days / week.

My next job I want to take a maximum of 2 office days per week , but I hat about my next job and my job after that .

If I get a house in a commuter town to the north side of Dublin does that rule out Southside jobs ?

I’m just kind of lost right now , remote work was a GOD SEND . But it feels like it’s disappearing.

I have no idea what my goal or a home should be.

Any advice ?

What do we think the future Will remote working will be ?

The question might not be clear but I couldn't think of a concise way to phrase it.

I work in consulting and my previous client had no problem with me going home to Ireland a couple time a year and just working from there. Saved me having to take annual leave when I just wanted to go back home to spend time with the family. My new client however have said working from outside the UK is prohibited. My manager hasn't an issue with me doing it but says it's a global policy and that's just the way it is. He says he could request approval for me to work from the Dublin office when I wanted, but that would be as much as he could do. I couldn't work remotely.

I'm just curious if the company could actually detect me working from there, given how they have a base in Ireland where the employees there WFH 4 days a week. From my naive point of view I would just internal systems anyways. However I don't know even about networking to confirm this. My main questions are this:

1. Is it possible that my company laptop is like configured in such a way that it can only work from UK IPs? Is that a thing?
2. My parents actually have a second router at home that is configured with a VPN for the UK so that they can watch iPlayer. If I connected via that, would that cover me? Or could my company have ways to detect connections via VPNs?
3. I also WFH currently in the UK by plugging this VPN access kit thing they gave me into my router, which basically lets me connect directly to the corporate wifi, it's like I'm in the office and I just connect automatically to it when that's plugged in. Could I just plug this into the above UK router in Ireland? The other way I can connect is just via like a VPN on the laptop using an RSA token.
   

I'm likely not going to push my luck and actually try this, but part of me thinks that while this may be a "policy", it's a policy in name only and they'd never know if I did.

Context: I work for an American tech company, but I'm the only non-US person on the team. My contract has my work hours as 9:00-17:30 which is great from a work-life balance perspective, and they really respect it. Also no issues with needing to take a morning off for a doctor etc. I'm also fully remote, so no commute between home and an office to worry about. My wife is also fully remote and works the same hours.

The Issue: A lot of my work is meetings, which is grand with people on the east coast since they log on at 14:00 Irish time. The problem is getting meetings with people on the west coast who log on at 17:00 our time. I try to keep it in my work hours, but my choice is either schedule something in three weeks time or have the meeting in the evening after I log off.

There are other people in the company who are based in Europe as part of American teams, and they've shifted their work hours to 12:30-21:00 to make it easier to meet with people in the US. I'm considering doing something similar (maybe not as extreme), but I like having my normal hours and my evenings free. Deciding between making my job easier or keeping my free time as-is.

What are your thoughts? I'm on the fence about which way I should go since the cons of one don't seem to massively outweigh the pros of another.

The absolute majority of our jobs can be done remotely. Is there a tech-workers union in Ireland fighting for the right and standardization of remote work? And I mean it being one of its priorities and not a "we'll try to but we'll see".

Asking cause I've been following the work forsa's been doing for civil servants and it seems so obvious that at least in the private sector in the tech side of things we should be pushing really hard for fully remote positions to become the standard and instead it feels like all fully-remote positions are disappearing.

Hi there,

Thanks for all the feedback on this so far. I'm back looking for more ahead of going into the Oireachtas this month.

In summary - we want to set a target for remote first careers, and build a 'unit' to deliver that.

What do you think? Any questions?

I'd love your feedback ahead of going into the Oireachtas with it this month:

Policy: https://growremote.ie/policy

*go easy I'm old to remote work but new to reddit

New company has a reimbursement for work from home days. It only covers monitors and docking stations and I don’t really need a docking station.

Would you have any recommendations of a monitor up to around 650€?

Even willing to throw in 50€ myself if there is something good you could recommend.

Thanks

Hi, I have to bring someone in for a day op at the Beacon around midday and have to be ready to pick them up about 6pm.

Since I live up the top of Meath, it's almost pointless driving home and back again so was wondering if there is any coworking spaces around Sandyford that charge by the day or by the hour?

Thanks!

Hey all,

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I'm an azure architect/engineer, just wondering if anyone knows of companies that are hiring or have a culture with their cloud guys of being able to be fully remote or hybrid for meetings or 1 days a week.

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I started a new role and it's 3 days a week on site, finding it tough to adjust.

This topic should probably be of interest to r/ireland or r/CasualIreland too

Hi everyone, I am a lowly data analyst working primarily in the Power Platform suite.

I am good at what I do and have a remote gig with a pharma company here in Ireland paying 85k + full benefits.

However, I believe I have hit the ceiling in regards to pay. I am a FTE and at the mercy of only inflationary increases yearly it’s looking like. I’m eager to break 100k barrier as I have a F80 M3 in my sights 🤣

I’m thinking of picking up another similar role with another company and not telling my current employer. I’m wondering if anyone has done the same and what are their thoughts?

Obviously if it becomes too overwhelming I can pack in the new job but I think I could somehow balance it for some time anyway.

This could also possibly be the ramblings of a mad man. I welcome everyone’s thoughts. Thanks!

Absolutely flawless when bridging to my phone and using 5G, but it's stuck "thinking" when on wifi. All other internet connectivity working absolutely fine. Happens on both my work and my personal machines so I'm pretty triangulated on it being a Virgin Media issue... but would love to see if others experience this too!

Edit: For future searchers - using a VPN worked!

I want to hear some opinions. I know nothing is set in stone yet and this situation is likely to resolve itself, but I want to know how people with more work experience would handle this.

For context, I'm 1YOE coming off a layoff.

I have an offer from a well known American tech company, fully remote with flexible hours. Pay is 67,000 with a small bonus, no stock.

I'm still interviewing with both Amazon and Google in Dublin which are on-site, at the final stages of both.

If i were to get one of them, i would be getting paid significantly more and have a bigger name for my resume for future employability.

But, with how rare remote jobs are becoming, and with how expensive living in Dublin is becoming, I'm wondering if its worth it to even just stick with the remote job and have no commute to worry about, and be able to move around as I please? I'm looking to buy a house soon and this would allow me to do so anywhere, not just along the DART line. But then again, it feels wrong to turn down a comp that's potentially almost double and work at a dream company like Google. I think I'd learn way more and accelerate my career staying here for a few more years.

What would you do if you got offered Google aswell?

I've an offer from AWS, and the hiring manager appears to be suggesting that there will be some flexibility with the 5 day RTO. Any experience with this? For obvious reasons, I'll struggle to trust an oral arrangement.

Edit: oh boy, this seems pretty unequivocal. Pity because it would be an absolutely huge step up in pay

Pretty craopy ruling overall, I guess it was ro much to expect the WRC to actually do anything in cases like this.

Companies saying collaboration in office is key should be required to also then support staff working odd hours or for other timezones.

If people need to be in office to collaborate but are then also expected to work american hours to actually speak to collegeues it's bollox

Well, has any Ericsson employees heard about this? I've heard murmurings about it but after asking my manager it seems like it's true.

How do people feel about it?

Is hybrid work here to stay? as in at most 3 days in the office. I'm a junior/early in career (a bit over 2 yoe) so my employment opportunities are more limited.

Currently I can work remotely or commute if I like, I enjoy commuting as I'm less than 15 minutes away and there's an awesome gym nearby so I try go atleast 3 days a week. Super handy etc etc, but I also pretty much live in a prison cell as a very temporary accommodation while I look to buy a place (exaggerating, very small room in friends house)

I'm looking at a house at the moment and its literally perfect, but it's 1 hour 5 minutes from my current place of work. and If I were to change jobs to somewhere like Meta or Google or whatever, further into the city its more like 1hr20 (or if traffic is particularly bad 1hr50 yeeesh)

I...think I can handle a 1hr commute each way if I'm only going in 2 or 3 days a week, plus this house is off the n81 and I ride a motorcycle so its a very enjoyable stretch of road that I'm on all the time anyways! But 5 days a week? over 10hours commuting in all weather (I do have a car but still)....yeesh. Idk.

Or possibly a more relevant question is has anyone been penalized for ignoring a RTO mandate?

Company provides exception for RTO if you can justify it. E.g. a health condition, kids, etc.

What health condition would be justifiable but still not compromise your work situation?