Hello everyone. I work in finance sector in Sydney and I am interested to know how many days per week people here working from home? My office is starting to get people to come back into office 2 or 3 days and I am interested to know how this compares with other firms? Thank you.
How Many Days a Week Do You Work from Home?
Ljimwall on 20/06/2022 - 10:32
Poll Options
- 2290 day WFH
- 521 day WFH
- 1532 days WFH
- 1543 days WFH
- 1384 days WFH
- 4315 days WFH
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Yes, of course there are little hurdles like certification and language.
Why is the poll limited to 5 days?
Like others I've been WFH for over 2 years now and often find myself doing 5 ½ to 6 days (with partial days over the weekend).
What I'm observing in my industry is that people are doing more hours when WFH. Working harder doesn't mean working smarter, as there are more barriers to collaboration in remote working.
I'm in Finance and our entire company is WFH 2 days per week.
My boss is still quite against it and the CEO was too but sorted of got pushed into it. I like the working in the office at times for collaboration, so I'm quite happy with 3-2 split. Though the executive still prefers to bug those who are around the office and not bother the ones WFH, so when you're in the office it feels like you spend 10-20% of your time doing stuff that other people should be doing which is frustrating.
I think we’ve found the reason for the push to work from the office!
Executive dysfunction.
Working in finance and currently attending the office one day a fortnight. Prior to Covid I was WFH every Monday then for two years we were totally WFH.
my employer is anti-wfh. We only get 1 day WFH
Huge waste of time coming into the office
Work in large finance company (Sydney). They've let the decision up to the managers to decide what works best for their team and luckily they're pretty accommodating. My team is two days in the office but only because we've got this huge project and it's just easier to collab in person for it.
5 days a week WFH, however I work for a UK Bank so my hours (I'm on AWST) are about 4pm to midnight. My company has fully embraced WFH and gone balls-in, they have turned all the offices into "hubs", ie. basically meeting rooms only now. They pay for stand-up desks, monitors, office chairs etc. to be delivered to your home because as far as they are concerned, that's your office now. My team (about 15 of us) are spread over 3 continents. Makes recruitment significantly easier, can cast a very wide net
Yep, pretty much same as the company I work for as well…. but there's a few thousand staff.
Wonder if the loneliness epidemic will start to hit younger generations that are adamant against returning to the office.
Unless of course these same folks go to the office and have zero human interactions then I suppose that’s another issue altogether… 🤷♀️
My hobby+social time has increased with the transition to WFH. I much prefer socializing with ppl that I want to rather than I have to.
Younger people are not lonely to be by themselves. They're always connected, and that's seemingly enough.
We were told to to come in 3 days.
For the past 3-4 weeks multiple staff off due to covid and flu spreading in teams. But now that you can wfh, there's an unspoken expectation to log in while sick.
Some managers have boasted 'it was barely a man flu'.Also I'll add some people are close talkers and come stand too close to for comfort. It's like, dude you literally had covid 7 days ago.
If someone had covid 7 days ago, they should NOT be in the office. I would refuse to go in with someone that recent. I'd be looking for a new job if I were you!
NSW rules:You must self-isolate for 7 days from the day you were tested. You can only leave self-isolation after 7 days if you do not have a sore throat, runny nose, cough or shortness of breath. For example, if you were tested at 10am on Tuesday, you can leave isolation at 10am on the following Tuesday if you do not have any of these symptoms. You do not need to test before leaving self-isolation in NSW.
From memory, his rat still tested positive on day 5, but he had no symptoms.
Apparently thats ok now. Fine, but you don't need to come stand over people for a chat surely.
Same in VIC. Only 7 days of isolation.
And if you test positive and report at 11:58pm, 2 minutes later you've on day 2 already…
Wife was 2 days a week but has just signed onto a government job in the energy sector which is 5 days a week. If only her previous employer had allowed people to work from home as much as they wanted they wouldnt be losing staff…
Should add new job will save her $100 a week and around 10-13 hours of travel plus its much better pay and super.Can I ask, did the job ad mention that it's fully WFH, or did she have to ask at the interview to find out? I'm looking in all sectors - private, government, anything - trying to find a role that is fully WFH but they make it so cryptic and don't tell you unless you apply and ask the interviewer. It's beyond frustrating!
It said "flexible work arrangements will be considered" So basically anything that says that I would apply for and then discuss in the interview. Wife applied for maybe 15 jobs, interviewed for 8, 2 werent work from home 5 days a week, she got offers on 4.
Just said she also emailed the contact officer for the jobs as they should be able to tell you a pretty good yes or no re full work from home.
I work in marketing for Health Care - we are doing 2 days WFH… i dont mind it as it is as we do a lot of collaborative work but ideally 3 days WFH would be the best balance.
3 days WFH is what's "allowed", but I generally do 4 and no-one has any issues thankfully. I'm a software engineer and there's just no need for us to be in the office anymore. When we are in the office we still do most meetings over teams and most communication over there because we have some overseas employees (who are fulltime WFH).
3 days WFH.
5 days WFH for me. Plan or for a day or two a month in office longer term, but nothing concrete.
Officially 3 days office 2 days home permanent arrangement. In practice 3 days home 2 days in office.
If you WFH 5 days a week, management will soon outsource them to lower cost countries since it can be totally remote.
Not always.
We've tried outsourcing software engineers and it only caused us pain.
If it's just a call center then sure, but they're probably already outsourced.That doesn't particularly apply to skilled jobs.
Unfortunately the days of only offshoring the "low value work" are gone. You're probably right if you require a specific Aus licence to perform the work - but even that will be worked around in time. The CEO's job is to increase the profits of the company (and their own bonus) - there is rich pickings to be had with massive reduction in office costs - insurance costs - super - etc etc…… Soon the question won't be "can we offshore" it will be "why are we doing this onshore".
They've been saying this for 15 years at least.
Why then are silicon valley software engineers on 200k+ and pumping up cost of living there?@idonotknowwhy: I'm in a Tier 1 eng firm (traditional eng, not software btw) and most eng & design are done offshore already. smaller firm will soon find it harder and harder to compete…
These decisions are never driven by reality and real facts. Often made by an audit recommendation during overseas parent company audit. Often businesses now are outsourcing every aspect and or moving to regional hub models. It will probably end up increasing jobs available as it doesn't work and is often incredibly inefficient.
Defo depends on the type of job you have. I have my own caseload to manage and if I don't do it nobody else will. Therefore if I was slacking at home it would become obvious pretty quickly. What it does mean is I can work late when needed without feeling guilty.
Some roles require more face to face collaboration of course.
Our policy is once a week office, normally im there twice.
But I do also visit remote sites due to my role.There appears a very high number of people in society now who produce only paperwork for others to do further paperwork on.
Good to know the finance industry is being fully productive at home. What did you produce exactly?
Of course if you can work from home 5 days a week then it is a pretty clear sign that someone in India could do the same and will charge 75% less. Be careful what you wish for.
Permanently wfh, with some occasional in person meeting at the office.
To clarify, this poll is only for workers who have full ability to perform their job remotely? ie not retail/hospo or required to be on site to perform duties
Isn’t it amazing how all those bullshit excuses to allow greater flexibility just disappeared over night. If anything, Covid taught us that a large number of organisations talk about caring about employee welfare and flexibility but don’t really want to do anything about it. They needed to be dragged kicking and screaming.
I’m glad my role requires me to be at the work site. I continued during lockdowns etc. worksite was all but empty though as others could work from home. So glad to be out of the house.
Downside is I can’t take a week up the coast with a laptop, I have to take annual leave to go away.
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Of course you can, just cant take the partner with you. However Aus nurses are very well trained and can get a job just about anywhere so..