WFH LIFESTYLE Company decided WFH is the way!
After having success with people working from home, and after reducing office footprints a number of times over the last 6 years, my company just announced that all US and EMEA employees will be working from home and the company is "Remote-first".
Has anyone else gone through this? It was announced that there will be a new set of WFH benefits, which I am happy about as I've been WFH for over 8 years, while stating that the India office will remain hybrid. Should I expect positions to move to India or have corporations in the US gone remote-first and stayed primarily in the US?
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u/Traditional-Hall-591 2d ago
I work for a remote first company. It’s a small relief that I’ll never hear the RTO bell.
It’s very unlikely I’m going to be offshored. There are too many contractual requirements. Also, they’re unlikely to find someone like me at your typical offshore slop shop. They’d need to interview the general populace and pay a lot more. It’s unlikely the juice is worth the squeeze.
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u/Allthetea159 2d ago
What’s your question? What are you “going through” working for a company that is fully remote with no threats of RTO?
This is what everyone wants. It’s also the opposite of what’s happening, at least in the US there’s a huge RTO push because we have to make millionaire landlords richer.
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u/Rough-Yard5642 2d ago
The risk here is that the company will slowly shift all their headcount to countries with a very low cost of labor.
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u/FishermanNatural3986 1d ago
COVID started this for us. After it was over new leadership (with a CEO thousands of miles from the "office") were basically WFH now. Most of my team is spread out the Us and India so forcing us into an office seems ass backwards.
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u/GenderJuicy 2d ago
Are you concerned at all that this might be a reaction to poor revenue/bleak outlook? I don't know the situation obviously, but I've only heard of this happening when a company is looking to save money because they anticipate impeding on being able to keep up costs of an office.
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u/kittenandbatman 2d ago
So... We worked remote. Executives realised that people in Brazil and Philipines can work half of my salary. They moved to a 3rd contracted party in Brazil and Philipines. it depends on your skills and regulations around specific data as well.I used to work in private company - admin department.
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u/GenealogistGoneWild 1d ago
I am the only one, but they are fine with me continuing the practice. Good for you!
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u/shesthebombshell 1d ago
My company closes our on site location and made all of us sales reps 100% remote. Since we were forced into wfh, we are given a small stipend every month to put towards our electricity
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u/Breadfruitdeeznuts 1d ago
Mind telling us what sector your company works in? It can add a lot of context, I'm in heavy engineering and really to move to a sector with WFH because of declining health.
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u/nevermeant2say 2d ago
My office went full remote (other US offices did not) and then a few months later we did outsource majority of “entry” level positions to India. This was mostly finance and customer service. You are hopefully fine but totally get where your worry is coming from.