Questions tagged [remote-work]
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What exactly does 'must possess unrestricted work authorization' mean?
I've been checking out remote USA internships to apply to. Some specifically mention that even though this is a remote internship, they are not hiring candidates from outside the US. But there are ...
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How to find companies who hire employees globally [closed]
I'm a Java developer located in Eastern Europe. I would like to find remote work for a US-based company. How can I find companies who hire remote employees?
I tried LinkedIn Jobs section but most of ...
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How to be hired in US company remotely
I'm a software developer living in Eastern Europe. I would like to find a job remotely working for a US company and to be paid an average US salary because in my country I currently get around 3-4 ...
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Team member who works alone
I'm a backend engineer (age: 30) in a small startup (25 workers). I came to this company 6 months ago and my team consists of 4 engineers and a manager.
A couple of months ago, my manager hired a ...
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Doubts about being hired from abroad
I'm a .NET developer with 4 years of experience. Now I live and work in Russia. However, I've been thinking of searching a job somewhere abroad (Europe, presumably). It would be nice to get a full-...
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Jobs with both Remote tag and city/state name [closed]
My question is what is the meaning when you see a job with both remote and state/city name tag. For example here is a sample job.
As you can see it says both Antwerp Metropolitan Area and Remote. ...
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Resigning during probation period - can I ask for a different role?
I have been in my current role for 4 months (working remotely), and am currently on a 6-month probation. The role involves far more web development than I was expecting, rather than the other areas I ...
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Realistically, how do I recover from a zoom screen share mishap?
I haven't seen any other questions to this effect.
With COVID and the normalisation of working from home, there would increase of Zoom/conference call mishaps, such as Jeffrey Toobin exposing himself ...
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Internship promised in written form was canceled - how to proceed with company?
My already accepted internship at an IT-company was canceled. The reason they mentioned to me were that almost all employees of the department I was supposed to work in are currently in home-office ...
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Employee being unreliable and logging too many hours
A marketing/PR manager below me has one employee (let's call him John) that has been constantly unreliable. They agree on something, let's say "John, post this on instagram today" and he ...
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How are legal disputes resolved when I work remote from India for foreign countries?
If any dispute arises how will it be resolved? And in which juridical area? By dispute I mean any salary, notice periods, work hours etc.
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How to communicate remote vs. relocation in an interview?
I live in a smaller town, while many IT companies are in capital city. I've been getting contacted by some recruiters and I'm not sure how to approach the situation.
On one hand, I don't want to move, ...
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How can I be effective in my remote role?
I come from a decent product-based company which had really great software dev practices.
I have recently joined a company which does their job remotely. Though the pay is good, I am not enjoying the ...
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Can my friend from Pakistan work as a contracted worker for US company, since H1B visas are not being issued in us?
My good friend wants to work for my company in the US, he's in Pakistan currently. He does not need to be physically present in the US. He is not a US citizen he's from Pakistan. any way for him to be ...
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Two jobs, one remote one on-site. How to handle having to call in sick for the on-site one?
I live in the Netherlands.
If you have 2 jobs, and one of them is done remotely (so you are able to work from home while you are sick) but you have to call in sick for the other job that is not ...
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Can you become a digital nomad if you don't live in a rich western country?
I live in what is now a poor country (Argentina). I hear a lot of people talking abot making multi thousand USD a month by working for foreign companies from home. I tried, a lot, to get a job like ...
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How will living outside the UK affect me and my UK employer tax-wise? How many days can be worked without impact?
I've been in the UK for more than one year, and I have been assigned a NINO and obtained the pre-settled status. During this Covid-19 pandemic, I decided to go back to my home country of Italy, but ...
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Temporarily working remotely in a different state
Because of Covid the majority of my office has been working remotely since March. They are actually limiting the number of people that can come to the office to 25% of capacity, and you have to get ...
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Has anyone had any success in re-creating the office experience/environment remotely? [closed]
I'm interested to learn more about any software/platforms/tools that people have been using while remote working to try and re-create the office experience eg. using platforms for a virtual ...
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Bullied via Zoom
I was in a Zoom Meeting at work. Sue was sharing her screen, Bill was leading the discussion, Anne, myself and two Data Engineers were in attendance. We are all peers and individual contributors. ...
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Temporarily working abroad while in normal circumstances being based in the UK
I currently work for an American company but I am based in the UK. Due to covid-19, my job is now fully remote, and I am working from my family home.
A few friends in the same industry as mine, are ...
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Can employer prevent me (remote worker) from working from a different country?
This is a somewhat similar question to Can an employer force you to wear a face mask?.
The location is also the same, the UK.
I'm a European citizen working in the UK. With the recent pandemic, my ...
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Can I ask to work remotely for a job I am applying for?
I am applying for a new job in Australia, where most companies that can (including my current company and the one I am applying to) are working remotely full time due to coronavirus. The job I am ...
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When should I tell my boss I'm pregnant
I work as IT contractor in US located small startup. I’ve been working there for 3 years. I live in another country and work remotely. I'm wondering how women usually notify the company about their ...
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New employee - Remote working - daily update call with FD - what should I say? Please help
To provide you with a background, I just joined a company in the Finance team exactly a month back. Just after 2 weeks of joining we started remotely working due to the situation with COVID-19. Ever ...
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How can we effectively organise Q&A in a teleconference?
Due to COVID-19, the plenary meeting of our ICT department (30 people) will be on Skype.
How do we effectively organise the question and answer part?
What is the best online equivalent of raising ...
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Supervisor doesn't “believe” in social distancing (i.e., working remote) [duplicate]
I work in the United States, and despite the importance of social distancing in the workplace brought on by Covid-19, my direct supervisor last week explicitly forbade me to work from home. He feels ...
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How do you continue to engage and recruit new employees during the pandemic?
Our company believes that the pandemic will create new opportunities within certain industries and the workforce will re-organize in order to meet the new demand. We want to continue recruiting, so it ...
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IT manager giving false information to management about the possibility of remote work
My local government has requested that non-essential businesses either close or move to remote working if possible for the next two weeks. My company of around 100 people could do this, as everyone's ...
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Interview: Working in a different office than the rest of the team. What questions to ask?
In the telephone interview I was told I'll be called in for the face to face interview next week.
Company
The company is an engineering/manufacturing firm whose headquarters is about an hour drive ...
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Canceling my two week notice to go to a remote job
I gave my 2 week notice at my current employer who has been very good to me over the past several years. The work has gotten a little bit stale and boring but overall I like seeing people and going ...
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If I can't WFH when the office is closed, do I still get paid? [closed]
I work for a tech company as a software developer. We have a system setup that allows us to work remotely but remote working has been for extenuating circumstances and not used that much.
With the ...
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Should I ask my company to pay my internet bill if circumstances and the company strongly recommend remote work?
COVID-19, remote work is "strongly recommended" by the company I work for. I live in a place where the internet bills/plans are ridiculous. (I am not paid a competitive market salary rate if relevant.)...
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How/should I ask my boss if I can work remotely due to covid19
I am a software developer at a small company located in NY (about an hour outside of NYC). I do not need to be in the office for my job, most of my communications with people is over Teams (messaging ...
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Regretting two week notice [closed]
I recently put in my two week notice at a company I've worked at for the better part of nine years as a digital marketer. The company has treated me well and provided learning opportunities. The work ...
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Employer asked me “What can we do to make your professional life better?”
I am working with a remote company as a software engineer. Recently my employer asked me this - "What can we do to make your professional life better?"
How should I answer this question? Can I ask ...
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Observing bank and public holidays while working remotely for a foreign company [closed]
Which countries bank and public holidays do I observe if I work remotely in one country for a company in another country and where both countries do not have identical holidays? Do I observe the ...
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Transitioning to fully remote work with the same company
I work for a small company in Toronto as a Software Developer. We are a development shop where I and two other developers spend our full work week on a single client which is based in New York city. ...
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How to handle questions/concerns about my new job when I've not started working yet?
Things have changed since I accepted a job offer. How should I raise my concerns to my new employeer?
Some background:
This takes place in Europe.
I work in IT.
So I was contacted by a recruiter ...
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Remote jobs: why is app in the app store so important? [closed]
I'm a iOS developer, when I apply for local companies, the emphasis of the interviews are on investigating my knowledge and my skills. So that, I would say, most important criteria to choose me iare ...
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How to deal with a remote teammate who's not doing their job?
I currently work as a virtual assistant (VA) for a company abroad. There are three of us on the VA Team, and we are all accountable for one set of deliverables per day. Another thing that might be ...
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I'm working remote and company may want to change that
I joined this company around 1.5 months ago on a contract basis. They are mainly based in the USA but there are 2 other employees in the UK including me.
We have been working remotely and just ...
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How does a remote worker complete Form I-9?
How does a remote worker in the US complete Form I-9 given the employer's corporate offices are in another city and/or country?
I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification and supporting documentation ...
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My two team members in a remote location don't get along with each other; how can I improve working relations?
I recently became the line manager for a team of engineers, which includes a two-people subteam based in a different location (very far away from here, I haven't had a chance to visit yet, but it's ...
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I work on a company office with a remote team, does it counts as a remote experience?
Currently I'm working on a company that has a office in my city but my team on the company is based on another office.
The company has other employees here but they work in different projects.
Does ...
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How should i ask my boss about remote work that he promised?
A few months ago I received a raise that came with the possibility of one day of remote work per week. The raise was reflected on my salary on the next pay but the remote work wasn't. How should I ...
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How to find out if work location is flexible at potential company?
I'm starting the interview process with a company & position that I'm very interested in. However, for personal reasons it's extremely important to me that I should be able to work remotely ...
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I stressed my coworker into reprioritizing their work and now I feel bad about it. Did I mess up?
I have a deadline coming up in two weeks. An internal web application needed a small new feature to finish the project. The maintainer of the web application has been extremely helpful in helping me ...
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Planning to move next year, wanting to stay with the current company
My partner wants to move back home (across the country) to be near her family, so I told her we could do so in the next year. I am currently a Lead engineer at a good company with a great salary, ...
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Can a U.K. worker work remotely in France for one month for a U.K. company?
I’m a U.K. resident working for a U.K. company. The company is based in Manchester but I work remotely in the south. I have a love for French culture and have lots of French friends (through ...
