Does anyone plan to ask to work remotely on a more permanent basis following this whole COVID ordeal? Finance as an industry tends to be backwards thinking / old school, but I don't see the need to come into the office any more. I plan on asking to WFH on Mondays and Fridays year-round, and all summer.
Am I overreaching? Probably, but I'd rather be told no than wonder how much better my life could be. How about you guys, any plans to ask for more remote work?
If you're in banking this won't happen. I work at a bank but in a strategic function. I've already asked to go 100% WFH and have been given the green light to do that.
I don't expect to survive the next management shake-up, if I choose to do that. The reality is we're eventually going to settle back into a normal office posture, and some chump working remotely from the middle of nowhere is going to light up an HR spreadsheet and get flagged for "reduction". I don't see banks as being on the progressive side of this at all.
I work in research, so not as hard core as banking but there's still a bit of toxicity in the culture. Some MDs in our department work fully remote, some work remote during the summer. I like to think its possible they'll give it to me but probably wishful thinking
I agree there’s an element of truth to this, but as a counterpoint, a remote employee is actually a cheaper employee. There’s overhead associated with every person who works in your office building.
Sort of. They pay for the space, not for you. It's not like they can just give your seat back to the landlord if you go remote. All it's going to do is drive up vacancy.
Also I'm not consuming overtime meals, bathroom/water bills etc... And if i go remote eventually they can reduce rent expense over time
As someone that helps manage a bank's real estate portfolio, I promise you all of this is such peanuts that nobody even considers it. I would not go in using any of this as an argument for why you should be able to go remote.
I don't plan to ask right away because I'm still pretty new but will definitely push for it once I snag a promotion. For a lot of us in research the work doesn't change at all being in office vs. remote so I'd like to think this shouldn't be an issue. My senior works remotely full time so there's literally no one I work with on a regular basis in the office anyway.
I think if i don't ask before I go back into the office I'll never get it, momentum is a strong thing
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