I received my offer letter today and it mentioned that i'm a remote employee but if my office is within 50 miles (mine is 35 miles) you may be required to work on site. i am so confused. Does that mean i am a remote employee or not a remote employee ?
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I take it as a CYA and leave it nebulous for then each manager and team to decide what to do. I’m willing to go twice a week but that’s it. Ideally none. I was expecting them to want us in an office some days (even if our team isn’t there).
I think what happened with a lot of offers was that they just pulled the information from Workday. If it said you’re remote, then the offer would repeat that, but with that verbiage about 50 miles etc. I heard that from a lot of people!
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I had the same verbiage in my letter, which I'm taking to mean (aka making and educated guess) is fully remote except for when you may be asked by management teams to go an office if within 50 miles (80km for me) for meetings, training and other events, pretty much what I had in my contract when joining VMware just over two years ago. Sure hoping my interpretation is correct because for some of my peers within but close to 80km from the nearest office downtown in the large and congested metropolitan area that I live in would likely mean a 2+ hour commute each way at rush hour, which here pretty means much all day/every hour that people are not actually at sleeping at home. For instance, my 24km one-way commute to our nearest office takes me no less than 45 minutes and more often 1hr+.
Transition for me and it calls out remote specifically
Likely remote because they don't have the capacity for all bcom and vmware folks but still leave the option to drag you to the office.
For folks in the UK - tax wise it is important that you are a remote worker - that means at least you can expense trips to the office.
My office for example is officially Staines but it takes me a 6hr round trip to be there and none of that can be expensed as legally my go to office.
Many are in the same boat, and it may be case-by-case basis from Management. For instance, if you have no team mates or colleagues in the office, there isn't much point going in after all, and it may be up to your management chain's discretion (they have to make a good case for you to not badge in every day).
We'll have to wait and see.