remote work

Remote job asks employees to video their work-from-home space for social media, employees bristle at invasion of privacy

JR Atkinson

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100% Remote Worker forced to return to office 3x per week, considers switching jobs: 'I genuinely don't know how people did this every day'

Remy Millisky

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'I drove across town to do remote work in a closet': Remote employee rebels against in-person mandate after company installs "focus rooms" for all-day virtual meetings

Ben Weiss

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Remote employee only works 30 minutes per day after spending their 20s "working so so hard"

Remy Millisky

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Job seeker accepts 'fully remote' job, gets told they have to be in the office 3 days a week during their induction: 'This team has been hybrid for a while now'

Ally Perry

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Company announces return to office 2 days after employee signs a lease on an apartment 45 minutes away from the office: 'I have been remote for 3 years.'

Emmy Pratt

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New remote manager files HR complaint for one employee using her allotted 14-day PTO and another her full 50-day maternity leave, HR just shrugs: ‘[HR] said, “No, she is absolutely entitled to do that."'

Elna McHilderson

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Irresponsible tenant relies on a remote worker neighbor as her personal 'backup key' until he cuts off communication: ‘She would even message me in wee hours’

Celeste Mello

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Boss mandates a virtual Happy Hour with remote employees every Friday at 4 PM: 'It is not even remotely optional.'

Emmy Pratt

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Company policy forces employee to book a flight for himself and the boss that's 5 extra hours just to save $250, airline upgrades employee but not boss, policy gets changed by Monday: ‘Oh, the kicker…’

Elna McHilderson

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Remote employee calls out their disruptive roommate by matching their energy and taking loud work calls in the common area: ‘We agreed that we would use headphones’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Company won't allow remote employee to relocate 1 mile away within their city: 'You’ve been shown the warning signs'

JR Atkinson

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Employee doesn't show up for work for 3 weeks straight, all they get is a polite call asking them to return: 'Sounds like a pretty chill place to work'

JR Atkinson

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Boston-based company requires remote North Carolinian employee to work from a coworking space 2 days a week: 'I do the same work I do at home from a louder room with worse coffee.'

Emmy Pratt

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Employee gets written up for going to his 2:00pm dentist appointment during working hours

Ben Weiss

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Boston-based employee's remote status revoked, forced to come into a WeWork twice a week with no one from his company on site: 'No one from my team is within 500 miles!'

Ben Weiss

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