Off site events always happen on what would otherwise be work days, is that different for you? They’re also optional for us, but we have to work otherwise.
I’ve never gone on any business trips—I think they’re far less common now after COVID.
In general all companies I’ve worked at have given some extra free time the next day if a prod outage took up a significant amount of time.
I guess it just seems our experiences are very different, it would be interesting to ask some more people to see which is more typical.
Ah sorry, I misunderstood the off-site event as business trip. (Not a native English speaker.)
Yeah, the business trips stopped since covid. In my current company, managers keep talking about restarting them, but so far it’s been just talk. When I interviewed for another company, I was told that the business trips would be regular and mandatory (maybe that was also just talk). But it seems that the companies are getting ready… Perhaps no one wants to be the first?
Similarly, companies around me are gradually limiting work from home. No one wants to be the first to remove it completely, because obviously half of their developers would quit the next day, but they e.g. limit it to N days each month, and then reduce N by one every year, trying to stay in sync with competition.
In my job, you get extra money for the evening/weekend work, but not extra free time.
Different experiences could reflect different countries. I wish we had reliable data to compare, not just anecdotes.
Off site events always happen on what would otherwise be work days, is that different for you? They’re also optional for us, but we have to work otherwise.
I’ve never gone on any business trips—I think they’re far less common now after COVID.
In general all companies I’ve worked at have given some extra free time the next day if a prod outage took up a significant amount of time.
I guess it just seems our experiences are very different, it would be interesting to ask some more people to see which is more typical.
Ah sorry, I misunderstood the off-site event as business trip. (Not a native English speaker.)
Yeah, the business trips stopped since covid. In my current company, managers keep talking about restarting them, but so far it’s been just talk. When I interviewed for another company, I was told that the business trips would be regular and mandatory (maybe that was also just talk). But it seems that the companies are getting ready… Perhaps no one wants to be the first?
Similarly, companies around me are gradually limiting work from home. No one wants to be the first to remove it completely, because obviously half of their developers would quit the next day, but they e.g. limit it to N days each month, and then reduce N by one every year, trying to stay in sync with competition.
In my job, you get extra money for the evening/weekend work, but not extra free time.
Different experiences could reflect different countries. I wish we had reliable data to compare, not just anecdotes.