#workfromabroad

Will we go to a full 4 days in office? Hourly tracking? Walking back of RTO?

We can't do our jobs from home, but our jobs can be outsourced to a completely different country on another continent. So they can do the same jobs we supposedly can't do from home, from India or wherever else? Make it make sense, please.

I have heard that a very high up person basically confirmed to some people that they have plans to bring everyone in 5 days a week starting this fall. Has anyone else heard this?

Who is out of kingdom and are you planning to return? Considering situation is escalating will you extend your leave?

Things are changing.

Found this out from a reliable source

Workplace Excellence Compliance Changes effective 4/1

• Planned communications: 3/10 employee email

• Anyone in an assigned office - updated expectation is 4 days in the office

• Everyone else - expectation is still 3 days in the office, but no consecutive WFH days. Friday/Monday is considered two consecutive days (so in office Mon-Tues-Thurs; or Mon-Wed-Fri etc)

• When in office, expectation you work a full day in that office

• External new hires - expectation is 4 days a week in the office

The Australian state of Victoria said on ​Wednesday it will launch legislation ‌to give employees the legal right to work from home two days ​per week. The laws, that ​are due to come into effect ⁠on September 1, will allow ​anyone with the ability to work ​from home to do so, regardless of the size of their workplace.
“Work from ​home works for families, because ​it saves time and money and it ‌gets ⁠more parents working,” Victoria Premier Jacinta Allan said in a statement.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/australian-state-plans-give-employees-legal-right-work-home-2026-03-04/

Anyone working remotely from Thailand for Bank of America — any issues with IT or access, or was it fine? Thanks.

Another American company with 85% of its ‘team’ in low-cost countries and 3 confused dudes in the US pretending to be the HQ. Not really an American company anymore—just a flag of convenience for venture capital. 🇺🇸 in name only.

Is this really necessary? What will it achieve, other than pi----g many of us off?

Workplace Excellence weeks have been removed from the calendar for 2026. That means you have to be in office 3 days a week even during holiday weeks.

Considering moving from Wells to BOFA. Is there any talk of going from 3 days in-office to 4 or 5? Or is there a required # of hours per day you need to be in office? What else should I know?

... but, you better be within 20 miles of your designated work location! Location Proximity testing on the way (for YOUR safety of course). Stay a few days with mom out of state, but work as normal... yeah no.

Read about it.

The branches close at 2pm on the 24th but our dept is staying open until 5. To make matters worse they said we couldn’t work from home that day and had to report to the office. I’m just curious if this is just our dept or are all internal depts working all day on the 24th?

There are rumors that something is changing in current work model. For example that work from office will be more strict - not like now where no one is checking this. Do you have any other insights?

spoke to the executives and said they are trying to make more room for 5 days in office and also fannie mae is very bloated he said. i suggest you all to be prepared to find new jobs. huge wave incoming

You all do realize most work from home people actually would go to an office if Verizon brought back our offices. I would but Verizon go rid of our building along with 20-30 other buildings over the last 10 years. My team is all over the country and no one lives in the same area... so going into a building to work virtually would be d-mb. Also, what is Verizon going to do fire all 12 people and keep 1 thats in a hub then backfill the 11 others or the 8 that are WFH? Its not as easy as you all think, getting rid of WFH or everything into a building would destroy workloads and knowledgeable assets already in place. Going into to an office to work with people not in the same office is d-mb, I thought all the climate change VZ activists would be protesting for protecting against my trucks carbon emissions going to an office anyways.

Credit goes to @c4+1k93pa0qm.

I know there's a policy where you are not allowed to work outside of the US. Has anyone tried to do this with like a VPN router + travel router?