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I feel you on this. I've always worked from home and surfing around 1pm on a weekday was my jam. Get all my work done in the morning. Each lunch. Go surf uncrowded waves. Come home to circle back to work stuff. Was nice. Now, everybody seems to be on my schedule and I find myself surfing early or late in the day.One of the great pleasures of my employment situation is pulling up to trailhead on a Tuesday, finding the parking lot empty as per usual, and not encountering another human for the next 8 hours.
You have a schedule... And people respect it.I feel you on this. I've always worked from home and surfing around 1pm on a weekday was my jam. Get all my work done in the morning. Each lunch. Go surf uncrowded waves. Come home to circle back to work stuff. Was nice. Now, everybody seems to be on my schedule and I find myself surfing early or late in the day.
I have a team in India , was out there for a couple weeks last year. Didn’t go this year due to the COVID situation. They are amazing people , smart and extremely hardworking.I work with a few Indians that I only know through skype and haven't even heard their voices. They are all smart and will do work for a fraction of the price their contemporaries in America would charge. I like working with them.
hahahah yes ! so much of that , for time sensitive sh!t I just have check ins daily so everything is clear and I lose a day at most.Haha, they do take every instruction literal. And often times I find myself waiting for work from them, then when I follow up they say they weren't told to do that and I have to look through emails/skype to see that in fact I didn't ask them to do it specifically but it's kinda implied in that to deliver their product it needed to be done.
My other issue is that they often over book themselves with work.
I think IT companies are loving the WFH mandate. It gives them a good excuse to reduce salaries, and employees are much happier. 20% pay cut if you move out the bay is not that bad when you can upgrade your 700sqft closet to 3000sqft house on the golf course, especially if you have a family. Not to mention cheaper taxes and food expenses etc... It will be interesting to see how the real estate market reacts. The myth that your company needs to be in the bay to attract top talent is dead. HPE just announced they are moving to houston, and they were the very first bay area startup back in 1948. Cost of power/cooling, property taxes, high employment taxes etc... are just a few of the reason why IT wants to leave CA.