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Company | Location | benefits (e.g. food vouchers, pay or anything of value) | how often do you go on-call
Feel free to include anything that you find interesting in how the on-call works in your team.
So on an normal week 450€ pre-tax.
On average I get about 1-3 calls per week oncall with total time spend between 2-3 hours. Everything is remote.
I've seen different definitions of "on-call". In my company, if you are "on-call", you work your regular hours, and after that you are "on-call" for emergency prod stuff. You get a 30% bonus on that day's salary for each day you are on-call. So if you're on-call 15 days, you get a 15% bonus for that month, if you're on call a week it's 7.5%, and of course, full month is 30%. There's no difference if you get called ev…
What I did for employees as we did a rotating OPs on-call, was to give the on-call emp a friday or monday off on the week they aren't on call (to be arranged with the team) -- basically, if you were on call for a week 24/7 for that on call week... when it was not your on call week - you could pick a day off of your choice.
Semi-Govt IT Organization | Canada | Time off in liu for any oncall time spent + one day off automatically for every half fortnight spend oncall | Half a fortnight every four fortnights On average I get about 1-3 calls per week oncall with total time spend between 2-3 hours. Everything is remote.
Hate it, but am well paid so mostly just shut up and try to make the experience better for myself and colleagues.
If ever a shift gets bad (up late fixing something, or spurious alarms in the middle of the night), I take a day off (unreported). No boss has ever had a problem with that. They know the job sucks.