Work From Home

Above average and with a lot of flexibility

I have been working 100% remotely / from home for over 9 years. However, management has told many remote employees they will have to go to work at "hub" location at least 3/days a week after COVID.

This benefit is going way. They want their employees to think it is to bring more collaboration. I collaborate fine with my 12 other co-workers in 7 different states. If I am asked to come into the office, I will still sit on the 3+ daily conference calls that I have with other remote staffers. I would rather do that comfortably at home where I have a door, a great view, AC that I control, and say "Hi" to my wife and baby girl at lunch (if I get one). If I am being asked to come into the office, I will be asking for a pay raise to compensate me for my loss of the WFH benefit.

This benefit is going way. They want their employees to think it is to bring more collaboration. I collaborate fine with my 12 other co-workers in 7 different states. If I am asked to come into the office, I will still sit on the 3+ daily conference calls that I have with other remote staffers. I would rather do that comfortably at home where I have a door, a great view, AC that I control, and say "Hi" to my wife and baby girl at lunch (if I get one). If I am being asked to come into the office, I will be asking for a pay raise to compensate me for my loss of the WFH benefit.

Working from home depends on the department and the leadership at the helm. Some areas/leaders will let you work from home 100% of the time, while others won't. Mine did.

Wells Fargo have strict work from home policies which are oddly ignored on Fridays. Furthermore, the policies are designed only to remain partially adherent to labor laws, and not to be of the interests of the public or supportive toward the internal workforce. Be very selective on VPN work. Do not have faith or trust in management unless you have something that scares them if they were to lose you. When working as a developer, many of their applications are poorly documented and overly complicated with configurations that may also not work properly when working from home and have no known solutions to address this concern except for a few lucky and secretive employees.

There's opportunity to work from home, after some years of working for them