Questions tagged [remote-work]
For questions related to remote working environments.
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Pandemic move to another state due to salary reduction
During the pandemic, many employees were let go or furloughed . I was kept on but my salary was reduced. Due to this, I could not keep my house and had to find another place for my family to live. The ...
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How do I stop wasting time on Reddit at work?
I recently began a paid internship. I am very inexperienced, so they said they would only give me the job if I could solve problems independently without bothering anyone. They aren't paying me much, ...
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Dealing with Remote Colleague and Project Isolation
My colleague (who is more senior than me) and I work in different locations a few hours apart. He moved to the other site and now I'm left supporting the old project alone. Initially, he promised we'd ...
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Very poor communication by most of my colleagues
I work full time as a senior software engineer as a contractor for a 10 person tech company which is remote-only. All communication is text-only with the exception of twice-a-week audio meetings.
Some ...
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Applying for remote EU position from the US. How to answer, "Are you eligible to work in the EU?"
I am a US citizen living in the US. I have been looking for a new remote based job and a lot of the jobs that interest me have been posted by countries in the EU. When I apply for the jobs, I ...
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How to find the details of government telework?
I've been looking for jobs on USAJOBS, the Federal job site. They make a distinction between "remote" jobs and "telework", but the distinction is not clear to me.
I've read their ...
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Contractor requesting copy of contract between services company and end client
If there is a contract between A->B where A is a contractor and B a services company and another contract B->C between the services company and an end-client C, should A, the contractor be ...
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Skipping Introductions
I had this situation where we had several meetings where the manager I was assigned was asking us to introduce ourselves. This went on for around 3 meetings with different people where constant ...
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Platform for negotiations, correct wording and closing “blank spots”
Continuing this topic: Potential employer promised to give an answer but has not yet responded
This is a great chance for me and I don’t want to miss it. Therefore, I plan to answer as quickly and as ...
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How can I politely say that I am not doing extra work after back to the office policies?
Our workplace decided that to support the economy we needed to be back in the office and therefore reduce our time working from home. They are very firm on this policy and very touchy about any ...
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Can i ask for compensation or I can i request unemployment? [closed]
I do remote work and have a company desktop computer that was sent to me. The computer has no longer powered on since early March. I was able to tape it and rig it to work a few hours before it would ...
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How do I repair relationship with Client after we had a misunderstanding over work availability? (Reposted in freelance, can't delete here)
I've reposted this into freelance stack exchange as this is related to a freelance contractor. I'm unable to delete it from here, but I welcome your thoughts and opinions.
My client sends me a message ...
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Is it reasonable to request working remotely from Ecuador?
I'm currently a Lead IT Engineer that works remotely %100 of the time in the United States. I want to move back to Ecuador though to be closer to family. Going to approach my work about this next ...
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remote work and mileage reimbursement [closed]
I interviewed for a position which is mostly remote work.
I live 2 hours away from the company site and I have a place to stay in between the site any my home whenever necessary.
I know I have to go ...
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Best way to ask for/about hybrid/remote work?
I'm curious what is the best way to ask for/about hybrid remote work when interviewing. I saw something somewhere that suggested asking what is the company's approach to remote/hybrid work but I can ...
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