After reading the other OZB post here about companies forcing staff back to the office, does anyone know any workplaces that are offering full time WFH in 2021?
I know overseas companies such as Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, Salesforce, Twitter and many more have switched to long-term remote work but I have not heard of any in Australia.
Anyone out there know of any Australian companies offering long-term remote work?
You forgot TAM's (whatever they're called now) and friends do have to turn up to client's site. We have a few where I'm at at the moment.
Lots, why not use the job search sites and select remote?
99% of the results are recruitment companies, not actual companies. Plus a lot of the adverts say "flexible working conditions" but do not specify if the role is 100% WFH.
Looking through the list I can see a few bigger companies offering full time WFH roles:
EnergyQueensland
Victoria Govt - Department of Transport
RBA
Suncorp
Commonwealth Bank
RACQ
Metro Trains Melbourne
Most of them in call centre type rolls which makes sense.
Yeah NRMA's call centre rolls are WFH as well.
Why encourage WFH.
Some businesses will realise:
We don't need workers in an office
Do we even need them to be in Australia?
Let's outsource this role overseas
Hey, the whole department can be outsourced o/s
Outsource != offshore employees…
I have previously worked as a SDM (service delivery manager - a conduit between the business and the outsourcer) in IT and can assure you there is a lot more to outsourcing than just the location of those employees.
I would much rather pay Australian based workers, minus office costs, than deal with the complexities of different timezones, language barrier, cultural differences etc. Which is exactly why most outsourcing generally involves some sort of bums on seats presence. Infact, every outsource contract I have been across has has at least some on site resources on site. Most of the time these employees are a husk of the people they have replaced and are so useless they need constant supervision negating any cost savings. Outsourcing is not meant to be about saving costs, its meant to eliminate key person risk and increase capability e.g. instead of 1 company hiring 1 person to be across 1 complex system, you can now have a third party company (outsourcer) who employs multiple staff who takes care of that complex system for many companies.
Any company who tries outsourcing purely to save money will quickly learn (within 5 years) this is not possible and revert back to inhouse capability.
Apologies for the rant!
has at least some on site resources on site
It's good to hear that they have their on-site resources on-site; those shysters who have their on-site resources off-site really get my goat.
Mates wife does insurance from home - I think its AAMI… Shes been doing it for few years, making excellent $$$$..
When you call (I think its )AAMI your sometimes talking to people working from home offices
Is that why they always say "sorry, my computers really slow today" when in fact they are in their loungeroom on their celeron heap of shite?
Citrix V 0.1 on a 9600 modem….
It's called Shitrix for a reason…
OECD.
Most companies would still be trying to finalise their COVID-safe office strategies and policies.
Add to that:
- The preferences of employees on where to work etc
- Some companies have overseas head offices, which have overriding restrictions in place
I don't think any would be openly advertising what they will be doing next year, beyond saying they will be "flexible".
Twitter employees can apparently work from home for as long as they want.
There's only 1 job listing for AU though.
https://careers.twitter.com/en/work-for-twitter/202011/1e15f…
My company (not going to mention it by name but it operates in the Health/Pharmaceutical sector) is implementing a Hybrid model. Can work from home as long as you want and can but still have the option to go into the office if you can't. Also encouraging team meetings every so often in the office.
All those international companies have large Australian workforces too, and they are subject to the same policies.
Ebay Australia
I work for a large global company and they are re-opening offices, but essentially leaving it up to staff to request to return to the office. Plenty of people are going in. I'm personally just going to play it by ear and work remote most of the time and go in when I really need to be in the office.
I anticipate it will just be one day in the office every week or two, I'm fairly extroverted, but video calls work for me to get my interaction fix. I went into the office one day last week for the first time in 9 months and decided I really hate commuting, such a waste of time. I actually thought I missed it a bit as it was a bit of downtime between work and getting home to deal with kids, I was kidding myself.
Australia Post is one I heard would be moving a lot of their corporate roles to working from home. NAB also announced that they were closing some office spaces and expect workers to work from home more often, and Telstra will be expanding their working from home. It's saving them a fortune in expensive CBD office space.
I believe they're going hybrid rather than permanent work from home, which I suspect will be the norm going forward. Few days in and out, depending on setup. Not many places are willing to completely give up on offices because a lot of employees want to be there.
Microsoft Australia :) https://www.businessinsider.com.au/microsoft-extending-remot…