The Chad Guide to Remote Work
190: How to get remote, stay remote, and crush remote work
Happy Thursday kings and queens.
So how much longer can you work remotely?
As I write this I know there are swaths of us who have been forced back into the corporate office after a nice long run of remote work beginning during the Covid 19 pandemic. ResumeBuilder.com out out a recent survey that indicated 90% of companies will require employees to return to office in 2023. 88% of companies are offering incentives to get employees to return, including catered meals, commuter benefits, and higher pay.
21% say they will fire workers who do not comply with the return-to-office plan.
Long gone are the non stop days of Call of Duty Warzone with the fellas, social media scrolling, and days where you may or may not have been able to lay on your couch from 9-5 and remain relatively unbothered from coworkers or your boss.
But — there’s still a contingent of us — including myself — who have managed to pull the right strings to maintain the coveted remote/WFH status despite all the time that has gone by and there are select industries and roles where you can still work remotely, deriving all the benefits that we saw many experience for the first time during Covid, including: more time for hobbies, housework, side hustling, and relaxation.
More time to do what you want throughout the day.
Massive time saves on commuting and traveling into the office, and possibly, less dull meetings to attend endlessly in the office.
Today we’ll go over all of the facets of remote work so that our readers have the best possible information to make a decision for themselves.
After all, if you read Arb Letter regularly then you know that we value sovereignty, personal freedom, and buying back your time above most things.
Remote work gives us all those things.
Pressure to get the last remote workers back to the office is ramping up across the United States in all industries and sectors.
Tech companies who have traditionally been known to be big proponents of remote work are enforcing in office policies in the aftermath of Covid and after mass layoffs.
According to staff at Roblox, a gaming giant based in California, the company is checking the number of times employees swipe their ID cards to access the building, and recording the location data from company laptops and phones to monitor whether staff are complying with the firm’s RTO policy—which, as of last month, requires them to be at work three days a week.
Apple’s management also seems to have run out of patience. According to one Apple employee, when he applied to continue to work remotely earlier this year, he was put on a disciplinary plan—“supposedly for performance reasons.” (Yahoo Finance).
On Wall Street Big banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley have removed the final hurdles for full-time, in-person work (Bloomberg).
Today’s post is a comprehensive guide to remote work.
Why get a remote role? The benefits and advantages
How to get a remote job/or shift to remote work
How to successfully perform a remote job
How to avoid issues with politics/optics that come with remote work + downsides
The industries and sectors that are still most remote friendly
This post is geared towards the following individuals:
If you’re remote but have to return to office soon and want to negotiate or extend that time where you’re remote
If you’re looking for your first remote role
If you’re fully remote but looking to maintain that status and safeguard your ability to continue working remotely
Who am I to write this piece? Well for starters I have been 95% remote since the very onset of the Covid 19 pandemic — working in a range of fin tech/tech sales roles. I have experience working fully remote, working within a hybrid role, and pushing tactfully to remain in a remote capacity as long as possible.
That being said our main intent is to free up time to work on side hustles, businesses, and endeavors that will give me what I want ultimately which is financial freedom and our time back.
Let’s get into it.
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