My mate works for an Indian company and got WFH forever. I was in shock because I never thought any company can give a work from home option forever ? Does any Australian company gives you such an option ? If so, please name those companies and job titles so that I can start applying for jobs there.

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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (11 children)
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    Atlassian, block, build kite.

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  • [+] [S] -8 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    There's no WFH forever option at Attlassian so I think you just spilling BS

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    You mean one day people will die or leave the company? Or you think the company will change the policy?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mean once I start WFH, I'll never be asked to come into office. The only way to contact me should be using a fucking laptop and I can travel around the world without thinking to come into the office.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Digital Nomadic workers have been a thing for a time, most of then are contractors though.

    There's 1000s of then on Telegram and Reddit (digitalnomads) discussing what's doing... not sure about Lemmy ?

    Why only work for an Australian company if your aim is to never come to the office ?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    We're small. Very. But we all wfh forever. Software dev and support.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You can just search for 'fully remote' on the job ad sites: https://www.seek.com.au/fully-remote-jobs

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    yes since 2015. Workplace went remote, and my current one also supports remote. Husband also gets to work wherever the fuck he wants, does three in, two off, previously worked entirely from home but he dislikes it.

    He's a dev and i'm a network/ systems engineer though. IT has higher instances of this.

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    Where I work went Work From Anywhere during Covid. I joined after the decision was made. They recently acquired a place in New Zealand and went about shutting down the head office to do the same over there.

    They say there are no plans to get people back into an office but I wonder about that. There have been questionable business decisions up top that have affected my team and others, so I wonder if they'll start getting people back in for the sake of 'productivity'

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I work as a software engineer for an Australian bank. My team works remote except for one day a fortnight which is in office to have some meetings that work better in person and so we can catch up and go for lunch. However I didn't go in for my last in office day because I had too much to do and it can be hard to get work done when we are in office.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Not in WA. We mostly sailed through the whole Covid thing business as usual. There's more work from home than there was before 2020, but I don't know any company that has all its employees remote.

    My employer has a few people working from home, but it's usually because they're working for customers in different states. It's certainly not normal and not assured to always be remote.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The trick is stop being an employee and start being an independent contractor. You decide how, when, and where to work.

    Just be aware of all the other shit you now have to deal with like tax, insurance, super, etc.

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