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Yeah, I got a job as a dev at one of the UK's high street fashion retailers during the pandemic. Got a load of praise from directors n everyone else for implementing a proper development workflow within the department, as a junior.

After the pandemic we all got an RTO mandate and I found a new, fully remote, job within a month.

The director of the department I was in at the original employer told me she would not be ‘grassing’ on me for not going to the office but it didn’t sit right with me so I left.

After all that I made sure that my current contract has an addendum clearly stating I can:

1. Be fully remote

2. Work my hours whenever I want as long as my core responsibilities are met

3. Work from anywhere in the world.

I’ll be honest, it is great I have that not but it does make finding a new job a bit harder as I am not willing to sacrifice the freedom I’ve earned here.

I had one of those “don’t ask don’t tell” arrangements. Works fine until the top CEO mandates more and more and the middle manager can’t “hide” you any longer. (Personal experience)

Probably a good move on your part

Or you manager changes.

#3 must be fun for tax purposes

1&2 are non-negotiable

You just file in the country you were hired in and illegally work on tourism visas in the others.

I always wonder how #2 works, does all/most communication happen asynchronously? Doesn't that just slow everything down? 1&3 are more important to me than 2. I just plan my location by thinking about the hours I want to work. If I go East, I shift my day forward, if I go West, I shift my day back (apart from some extremes I guess).

I can't imagine all/most discussion async. I much prefer things to get discussed and resolved quickly, rather than having a back-and-forth of 10 messages last days because people are out of sync.

async means a lot of things for different people.

For me it’s not doing the “syncs” in a specific time. I huddle up with a coworker if I need something figured out. If the person I need to talk to isn’t there I talk to the next person with the closest experience in what I need to do.

This makes collaboration a lot more effective and organic for me instead of trying to fill in a 30’ slot.

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