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Great idea, but do remote employees get paid the same? Say 100k+ for an SF based company?
My current employer about 60% of the employees are remote and my entire team is remote. Almost everyone has their own on-the-side consultancy and is very public about it. Team members swap stories about their after-hours clients. The after-hours work allows us to diversify into new stacks, experiment with tooling that might not be available to us during the day hours, and then bring a lot of this experience back. Since we're all on very flexible schedules, meetings during normal the normal 8-5 rarely conflict. As long as we don't compete in our employer's industry (which is a very niche industry), we're generally trusted to keep our client/employer work separate, prioritize our employers meetings over client meetings in scheduling, then really it's quite kosher.
I'm a little surprised more medium-to-large businesses aren't more encouraging of it. Free training, keeps the engineering team sharp, and definitely keeps a lot of the more ambitious engineers from getting bored with the pace of building boring business software.
Great idea, but do remote employees get paid the same? Say 100k+ for an SF based company?
Next. . . he's working maybe 10-15 hours per week. Telling one person one thing, and another person something else, about where he is. (business is multi sites, so they do travel a bit). Many times he claims he's "working from home" - but a check of the AD Server's audit log shows that he hasn't even logged in for days.
(also: he's a terrible boss. Bullies people into working overtime, screws them out of billing hours, and takes credit for other's successes, and blames others for his screw ups).
This goes on for months until he up and resigns.
Then, HIS girlfriend, on FB, starts promoting the book he wrote and is selling on Amazon.
(The book is called "IT Management" - and yeah, it's as stupid as it sounds.)