I have a designated-remote job, but I’m also in a role that’s periodically customer-facing. For accounting purposes, the time I spend working from home in my home office is considered ‘remote’ and my time on-site at customer premises is considered an off-site event. Not sure how they do it at Dropbox, but that gives you an idea of how the time categorization goes.
Comment on The CEO of Dropbox has a 90/10 rule for remote work
neptune@dmv.social 1 year ago
This means 90% of the year is spent on remote work, and the remaining 10% is dedicated to employee off-site events.
What does that mean? Five weeks of retreat a year? Who pays for that?
krayj@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
SARGEx117@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not relevant to the discussion, and Readily admitting I have no idea how tax laws work.
Every time I hear “for accounting purposes…” what my brain replaces it with is “we commit fraud! Here’s how…” mostly as a joke, but sometimes I wonder how true it really is.
To be clear I’m not trying to imply anything about your job lol just think it’s funny
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
An offsite event doesn’t have to be expensive. Some are travel and hotel junkets but others are just meetings at some location that isn’t the office - it might even be the office of wither company that lends you space. I’ve seen companies trade this favor back and forth. The only real requirement is that you get out of the ordinary space and routine of work so you can focus completely on the people you are with and what you’re talking about.
bsrz@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I wouldn’t take the 90/10 literally. It probably is closer to 1 week per quarter at an offsite event.
AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 1 year ago
which is not that uncommon at a tech company.
dojan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Eugh. Makes me so glad I’m working at a professional company and not one of those tech bro firms. We have an annual conference you can attend either in person or remotely, and it spans like two days. Doing some random corporate BS four weeks of the year just so your CEO can pretend to be some sort of popstar sounds abysmal to me.
Steeve@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Dropbox isn’t some tech bro startup anymore…
foggy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Y’all hiring?
dojan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We are actually, if you’re in Sweden.
yyyesss@lemmy.world 1 year ago
i totally agree with the sentiment. my last job was a “tech bro firm”. that entire attitude and working environment is stacked in favor of extroverts. as an introvert, that shit is extremely difficult and frustrating.
neptune@dmv.social 1 year ago
That’s still a lot. Four weeks a year?
darkmarx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A quarter has 13 weeks, so if you do 2 week sprints and align them to start with a quarter, there is 1 week per quarter that is not accounted for. That week can be used for stuff outside of daily activities. It can be used for training, offsites, working on a pet project, etc. Its a good way to build time in the schedule for this type of thing. These types of breaks have tremendous long term value.