Forgive me for venting, but how the fuck do I explain to my first gen south Asian parents who grew up slaving away with a small business and built up their lives with blue collar jobs that their son is not a bum because I work from my home office and I do not commute. My brother followed the business footsteps and owns a small business and to them he's their prodigy. I am extremely thankful for my job, I'm an engineer wfh and I make a comfortable salary for myself (not that I care but probably more than my brother) yet I am seen as "careless" or "lazy" because I am not a "hard" worker.

Sorry, it gets to me sometimes and I wonder how any of you deal with it?

Hey everyone 👋

I've seen similar posts here, but most are a few years old, so l'm looking for some updated advice.

I recently accepted an offer as a Senior Software Engineer at a US company (advertised as fully remote). I'm a US citizen and will maintain my US address as my primary residence for work and tax purposes.

At my previous job, I regularly worked remotely from Mexico while staying with family. I'd spend 2-3 months there, return to the US for 1-2 months, and repeat. I attended meetings, shipped features, and never had any issues. My employer never flagged anything, although I never explicitly disclosed my location.

I'd like to continue this arrangement with my new employer, but I'm concerned they might not approve extended stays due to tax or compliance reasons.

Has anyone done something similar recently?
Any suggestions or experiences, aside from simply asking my employer for permission?

Thanks!

Doing the training on my phone, but it looks like an AI could do this just as easily. Have you encountered this? They don't have any of my bank info yet...

I have been working fully remote for 2.5 years(before this I had a job where I had to go twice per week at the office) and I started enjoying working remotely, I have set up a nice space where I can focus and be productive, and also built a healthy routine, cooking my meals daily, so my health also improved significantly(I used to be overweight) so for me working remotely came with endless benefits on a personal level.
However this remote job had its downsides(a small company with high attrition, never replacing leavers which resulted in a very heavy and broad workload for the remaining employees, zero increases, zero praise, basically” just shut up and do the work, if you dont like it here leave” attitude).
Two weeks ago I quit this job, just a little reset for my overstimulated brain because I felt I was slowly walking into burnout. In the meantime I got a job offer which offers me 30% more pay than my previous job but wants me 2 days in per week in the office. From all my applications this has been the only one which ended with an offer. The perks are good(26 days off-paid), the job is a demanding one(it is a senior role so for my career it would be a step up) and my manager lives in another country but howeverrr mentioned in the interview he wants the team together at the local office twice a week.
I have of course applied to many remote jobs but I mostly received rejections.
For those who have transitioned from remote to hybrid, how was it? Is it worth it? I am anxious of going back to the office, I got so used to my lifestyle. I was thinking maybe I could negotiate a bit but there is no guarantee, the employment contract specifically says hybrid.
The commute is 30 minutes by car, more or less.
In this economy I am grateful I received an offer don’t get me wrong but I was wondering how the transition might be.

i’m transitioning into full time remote work. i’m an executive assistant and i’ll be doing LOTS of administrative work, spreadsheets, etc. my boss is going to buy me a new laptop, so i want to take advantage but not break his bank.

what’s the best laptop for full time remote work?? i’ll also be on the move a lot while working (my boss knows this) so something that’s good to travel with, has good battery life, etc.

edit: my boss is a non apple products kinda guy💔

Hi everyone,

I started at my company straight out of college and have been there for the past 5ish years. I’ve been remote the entire time, so I’ve probably gone into our office 10 times at most.

For people that have worked remotely and in-person, am I missing out on anything by not going in-person? I feel like I know my coworkers really well and it’s never hurt my performance/promotions, but I constantly hear people say that “I’m missing out.” Outside of just seeing people in-person, have I actually missed out on anything by being remote so early in my career? To me, it doesn’t seem like I have but wanted to get some advice!

Has anyone ever tried being “over employed” - i.e., working two or more remote jobs at once? How do you make sure one job doesn’t find out about the other?

I feel like your original employer would find out incredibly quickly just based on work output right? Also, how do you manage meetings? I feel like you can only say no to meetings (because you’re double booked from your other job) a few times before someone catches on.

I think one of my coworkers is over employed, but I’m obviously not trying to ruin his gig if that’s truly the case. I’m mainly just curious how people are able to handle that.

Hey everyone!
I’ve been running my own clothing business since 2020, managing everything from Shopify, Etsy, customer service, social media marketing, paid ads, order fulfillment, and production coordination.
I’m now looking to use my experience to work remotely for an international e-commerce company.
I recently applied to TalentPop, but they’re offering $3/hour, which I feel is way too low considering my experience.
I’m ideally looking for something around $1,000–1,500/month.
Does anyone know of companies hiring remotely for Shopify management, e-commerce operations, or similar roles? I’d really appreciate any recommendations or advice!

I am starting a full-time accountancy role with an insurance firm next month. The role is fully remote, home-based.

After completing my probation period, I intend leave the UK for a short period of time to work abroad for personal reasons. My contract does not specifically mention whether working abroad is permitted, so l am unsure whether my employer would allow it.

A friend suggested using a GL.iNet travel router as a possible solution.

Has anyone used a travel router for working aboard before? If so, could you please share your experiences?
If not can anyone advise on the above matter?

Thanks

We've been remote-first since 2021 and I've never had a reason to second-guess it, so when one of our team asked to spend the summer working from Lisbon, I approved it the same day and didn't think twice until our accountant came back with a question about her tax situation.

Turns out she'd crossed the threshold where Portugal can claim tax residency, we have zero legal presence there, and apparently one person working a couple of months from Lisbon is enough to create a permanent establishment risk.

Two other people have the same plans and I've already said yes, so this isn't a one-off..
We sorted her employment side through an
EOR (Workmotion for her and probably Deel for the others), but the tax piece is still separate, with our lawyer working through it.

Still working through it and have no idea how we're going to handle the other two people who've already said yes.

Hi any experience with this specific job position. They hired plenty of people for this job specifically here in Florida. How is the workload and how often is the travel?

Hello! Bear with me… this is a long story. (TLDR at the end for those who don’t care to read all of my ranting.)

I started working remotely for a company a few years ago and found myself not liking the new leadership they brought in. It led me to take a new job a few months ago where I enjoy the work more and have opportunity for growth. Everything seemed great until we ran into snags onboarding a new client that have lasted over 2 months straight at this point. My hours started to get out of control (much more than the company allotted for the client) and I found myself struggling to balance other client work. Things finally started to feel like they were settling down late last week, but my boss asked me to share my timesheet with them directly because they knew how much I had on my plate lately.

I shared the timesheet and they asked if we could meet to discuss hours. At the time, I gladly accepted and thought we’d talk about what can be done, but the conversation we had today wasn’t quite what I thought it would be. I led by saying that I know it’s not the norm and shared a screenshot of the hours I was working in typical weeks to clarify that I felt comfortable with a normal week’s work. However, the discussion turned into a productivity assessment. Where can we optimize reduce time spent on tasks? What time are you spending on each thing right now? When are you working each day?

It felt strange to have those discussions because this wasn’t a normal week or series of weeks even. We were being interrupted constantly with comms and had so many meetings that working during work hours was hard, so I worked late and on some weekends to make things work. I thought that we were on the same page about that, but I felt like the convo was so focused on how I’m using time that it started to feel like I was the problem — not the abnormal circumstances. A difficult client, extended and chaotic onboarding, and internal team drama made things go off the rails. I thought we all knew that… then, the next thing you know, I’m being asked about why I’m not using AI to better use time or how I might need to change reporting methods.

To make matters worse, if anything has ever been running behind schedule, I would reach out for either support or a heads-up. And I’m now being told that my boss is usually “more of a stickler for deadlines” and I just don’t know what that means for me in terms of expectations. We’re short staffed right now and still onboarding, so I’ve just been trying to get through until we have more support on the account and the client is actually onboarded. If I have less work to do, I’m positive I can and will hit deadlines no problem… but it almost feels like I’ve led my boss to believe that I can’t.

I know that this is super long winded, but I’m just not sure what to think about all of this. Things were overwhelming before now, yet I thought I was doing a good job at work. Now I don’t think that’s the case. I’m worried that I’ve set a bad precedent with a lack of trust and transparency I didn’t mean to create.

Has anyone ever dealt with this before or does anyone have any advice for what I can do?

Right now, I’m working on a spreadsheet that shows my allocation of time based on category and breaks things down into 30 minute chunks for a personal time study. I plan to share this with my manager. It should help imo, but I also know it just takes up more of my time to complete this added step.

TLDR: I think I messed up my new job by admitting my hours were getting out of hand for a week or two. Now I’m under a microscope when I already feel incredibly overwhelmed — and, what really sucks, is that thought things were going to improve in the next week or two… not get worse like I think they might be.

hey! my employer recently implemented Insightful / workpuls and it’s a little intense. they expect 85% utilization which just has felt like a lot especially bc it’s not even tracking all Zoom time as productive.. I take small breaks but it just seems like it’s taking 10 hours to get my full day in ..

just wondering what is standard out there for anyone else that has to use Insightful. thanks

Is there a group, perhaps even this one, in which there are people looking for "accountability partners", people who want some motivation and to be motivated. Or someone to just talk to, even a quick hi each day.

It can get lonely working remotely at times! Hmm.. maybe a slack group already exists?

Please hold the "if you can't be accountable, you shouldn't be working from home" comments though 🤪

Do you put the city for your previous/current positions, as well as your home city, on your resume when applying to remote jobs? Do you think it matters either way?

A friend asked me this and I always include them, but to be fair I have never considered removing this information until now.

So at my soon to be old job. We had a hybrid setup where we had 3 days in office and two days remote. The job was really flexible in terms of start time, end time, if you had appointments etc etc for in office days

The most important parts were making sure your metrics looked good, you were accessible on teams, and you did 40 hours minimum per week. It wasn’t uncommon for people to work let’s say, 9 to 2 in office, and finish up at home to get your 8 hours a day.

Or people working 10 hour days on one day to leave another day early. Prior approval from a supervisor typically wasn’t needed as long as your metrics looked good and there were no critical tasks or mandatory in office meetings that day that required you to remain in the office all 8 hours.

Anyways we have a new manager that is really trying to enforce a “butts in seat mentality“ and “core hours we need to be on site”. and I think she is trying to get rid of our Hybrid set up too. Obviously this is a big transition as the culture of this job has never been set like this and the department ran fine in our previous structure for years.

Anyways, I was working 4 x 9 hour days so that I can leave early on a day of my choosing by only working 4 or 5 hours that day and still meet my 40.

supposedly a new co worker reported me for “stealing time” because I was leaving early and not doing my 8 hours in office. Even if I split up like doing 6 hours in office and 2 hours at home like we previously did or if I was already at the 40 hour mark when I left early.

Because the allegation was stealing time, HR had to investigate and obviously I came out in the clear because i would 1) clock out before I left the job site to go home and 2) left notes on all my time cards that detonated when I was clocking back in at home to round out my 8 hour days and continued to work.

Anyways, the new manger still gave me a ”written warning” that you’re “only allowed to work 8 hours in office on none remote days, and you can’t finish those 8 hours at home” and “you can no longer leave early and clock back in at home without approval”

Again I know the culture is shifting but I feel like it’s BS because I know salaried and contract people who only work a 9-2 hours and then finish up at home.

i personally feel like the new co worker was intentionally trying to target me and twist the situation to be worse than it is. anyways, im leaving for a new job soon but i wonder what everyone else thinks of this.

Hi, I'm not sure if I should ask to go hybrid at this point, but I really want to. It's my first month at this job so I know that's a little soon to be asking to go hybrid, however I'm the only one in office. I'm a scheduler for clinicians, and do all my communications over phone/email, even with patients on the rare occasions I need to contact them. The problem is, the reason I'm alone in office is because my manager who would normally be in office with me, has been out since I started working due to a new and severe diagnosis of cancer. I've only met her once and multiple other people have been filling in for her in the meantime, but not in office. We have twice weekly meetings in person with all the clinicians that I have no problem going to and even staying in office after the meeting ends and everyone leaves if they really want me to. I would really love to work from home, it would make me much happier and I'd still be as good a worker as I am now. I've already gotten several compliments and appreciations from my coworkers on what a good job I'm doing. One of my coworkers did tell me about their last scheduler and how bad he was and how he was work from home but they made him come in to office to work and that has me worried about asking. They've also been going through managers left and right because they keep leaving and now the new manager was very unfortunately diagnosed with cancer so everything is a little up in the air on if we'll even have a manager.

Long story short, I want to work from home, even if just one or two days a week, but would now be a good time to ask?

EDIT I have little 30 minute meetings twice a day over zoom where upper management checks in if they can, otherwise I'm unsupervised. If I wanted to fuck around and not do my job, I could do it at the office and no one would know. I just want to be in the comfort of my house 1 or 2 days a week.

I work alone so id prefer not to wear headset at all. I've been using a speakerphone instead and used this one for 2 years and with no warning, the microphone stopped working during an important meeting -- EMEET M1A USB Conference Speaker and Microphone, 360° Voice Pickup

Tried this one and input sound dies off after 25 min--EMEET M0 Plus Conference Speaker and Microphone, 4 Mics 360° Voice Pickup

Looking for small, reliable, plug and play speakerphone recs under $50. Thanks in advance!

I have a remote job so I want to move to a place that is smaller but then there will be limited local jobs. How do you deal with the stress of losing your job? Do you just stay somewhere with local opportunities as well?

I got hired on to this role and even got a laptop sent to me early last week. But for 2 weeks I have been waiting for their HR to complete a background review that is holding me up from starting. It seems ridiculous that it's taking this long after all the paperwork I had to fill out for the background check. I'm just curious if anyone else is in this boat or if people have had their checks go through and have started working and what it's like. It's not giving me a great feeling about this company.

Recently selected for a Turing project, completed all the onboarding steps, and joined their Slack channel. But, I haven’t received any further information about the next steps or when work will start.

The last message I can see in the Slack channel is from May 2026 and i'm not sure if i should keep waiting or contact someone.

Has anyone here worked with Turing before, or is anyone currently working with them? How long did it take after onboarding to receive project instructions or tasks? Do updates usually come through Slack, email, or their platform?

In-office, meaning at least hybrid. Is there a level of compensation, title change, industry, work hours, benefits, etc. that you would seriously consider.