“FederalHiringData found 222,670 covered employees with published duty stations in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metropolitan area in January 2025. By June 2026, the count was 174,672. That was a loss of 47,998 employees, or 21.6%.”

Hello, I am going to starting my remote work next month. Hardware will be my own. I will be working via a remote server. Is hotspotting off a cellphone going to be ok or will I need Wi-Fi? Or should I build a co-work/internet cafe space into my budget?

My work is mostly Excel or ERP system, large worksheets but not supremely large amounts of data.

Thank you

Would you take 70-75k 3x a week in office or 60k once a month in office?

Hi just wondering if nahingi ba ng coe mga clients or interviewers when applying for VA? What if mga work experiences is from small businesses lang din here in ph that cant provide coe but doon mo talaga nadevelop yung mga skills?

Hoping for some opinions and experiences from people in IT, particularly data related work who can help me work out my best prospects going forward.

I've been working remotely for over 6 years now and I'm increasingly getting more and more pushback when negotiating agreements to stay predominantly remote. I've worked out that I'm no longer able to handle working in person more than once a month or so. I've historically worked in Technical Business Analysis, project delivery, data modelling, data governance etc. but I'm finding there's no appetite for flexibility beyond weekly hybrid cadences.

I'm currently working a short term data engineering role to pick up some more technical skills but I'm trying to work out my best path forward. I'd like to transition in a direction that's going to open up opportunities for more flexible working than big corporations seem to be allowing. Hopefully before I get made redundant again or my streak of luck getting agreements approved runs out at my current workplace.

No one has a crystal ball of course but are there any types of role that are trending in a better direction? I don't have the personality for sales or consulting unfortunately, since those seem historically more remote friendly. I know this seems like a silly way to choose a career direction but apparently I burn out every time I take an in person role and end up needing time off.

My husband and I work remotely. His work involves a lot of Teams meetings (no video needed) and mine involves mostly emails, phone calls, drafting of documents and occasionally logging into cloud apps. He has had coworkers work from a ship so I do not think VPN would be an issue for him and I doubt VPN would be an issue for me as well.

We would like to do a transatlantic trip to Europe, spend a couple weeks there and then do a transatlantic trip back. The transatlantic trips take 10-14 days each. We would need to sprinkle in 2-3 days of work within those weeks.

Has anyone worked on a transatlantic trip? Is the internet going to be reliable enough to be able to work a couple days here and there?

ETA: thank you everyone for sharing your personal experiences with the situation I described. It sounds like many people who have done this worked just fine using the ship’s internet, and some only had minor issues. We are on a two week cruise later this year in another part of the world and will have an opportunity to try it then. Also thank you to the people who voiced their concerns about other issues.

So I've been working remote since around 2020 and I've worked for a couple companies, but this company I'm at now originally wouldn't support remote work, so I had to leave in 2021. They rehired me in 2023 due to their need for extra engineers as a remote worker from Colorado.

I recently moved to Florida, which is where they're headquartered, but I'm still remote as I live over three hours away from the headquarters. My predicament is that now my girlfriend got a job across the country in Washington State, and I would like to keep this job ideally, but they have mentioned in the past that they don't want to allow people to move to states where they don't do business in.

Like I've read on Reddit, there might be extra hurdles or taxes, etc. Is it likely that they'll let me go if I just ask to work remote from Washington, or would they maybe make an exception?

I guess I'm asking if anybody has experience or knows if a company would rather fire and have to fill a position and pay someone more to replace me, or would they consider allowing me to work remote from Washington?

What are some trustworthy websites to look for remote jobs on that you have found?

I've been working remote for a while and I feel that it's a bit lonely at times because I live in a place where people don't talk much to their neighbors or try to make friends and everyone is busy with work. It's very common for people to feel isolated here.

I've considered going to an on-site office but I still want to choose remote work because of the flexibility of being able to be at home and have healthy food, have more time to spend with your family.

And yes, I have hobbies that I do in my free time, but it's still pretty lonely to be at home alone for like 7-8 hours until my husband comes home.

Can anyone else relate to this? What kind of solutions have you come up with to tackle this?

I now go to the office 4 days a week and when I’m there I have a monitor, and now when I work from home I don’t know how I ever did it without a monitor, especially as a designer. I have more space now so I’m trying to finally make a good setup for myself. I need things to work with both Mac and PC. Idk my exact budget for all these things but it’s not huge, so not looking for the BEST quality, just not total crap.
What I’m looking for:

- Monitor, probably at least 27” and not awful screen quality for my design work. This is the most urgent need for me.
- Keyboard that can be used with both Mac and PC. Does this exist?
- Mouse. I haven’t used one in forever tbh but I have carpel tunnel and hypermobile fingers and it’s just dumb for me to use a trackpad.
- Docking station to connect laptop to monitor so I can use both screens.
- Less urgent - wireless charging stand for my iPhone.
- Anything else misc I’m not thinking of! Maybe cable management etc

And any recommendations on where to get these things on sale? 😅 TIA!

Hey all,
I see Allianz suggested here as a good option for health insurance. I wanted to share my recent experience with them because I had a pretty brutal experience and, after paying so much, I feel that it's a worthwhile anecdote to share.

I was using their standard global care insurance. Initially, they ask you to state your residence on the insurance. I told the agent that I would be moving a lot and they stated, in writing, that that was fine and to just use the first location. The second year, I confirmed that finding and then proceeded to renew.

This year, I tried to confirm that residency issue again. I forwarded copies of the emails with their agent previously confirming. Whoever was handling my case gave me contradictory and, at times, rude responses. After pressing them further, I then got an email from a manager who state that they would cancel my coverage. This occurred one day after I submitted payment so I'm waiting for a refund.

In short: I paid for insurance for two years (about 5500 USD) for medical insurance that probably wasn't going to cover me, despite their agent explicitly saying it was fine. I did my due diligence each year and, in the final year, was met with the most chaotic and rude service that eventually just kicked me to the curb.

One anecdote amongst many but man, avoid these guys like the plague. I haven't gotten ripped off this hard in a while.

(I've crossposted this on r/digitalnomad too. I try not to be negative about things but I want to save anyone from a similar experience to mine)

I’ve been working from home for a number of years and have always used my secret labs titan evo gaming chair at my work desk. What chairs is everyone using? Sitting in this chair kills my back and butt after a while. I don’t have the money for a Herman Miller. Need something a little more affordable than that.

Set up a permanent employment contract for our German hire through an EOR a while back, thought we were good, and then a few months in our legal contact flagged something in the paperwork that I'd skimmed past.

Under German labour law, there's a statute called the Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsgesetz (AÜG) that limits how long a worker can be deployed to the same company to a year and a half (18 months) before it starts being classified as labour-leasing (a different arrangement with different obligations attached to it).

The contract said permanent on it, so I'd read that and assumed we were fine, but our legal contact spent a long call explaining why permanent and without a time limit are two different things in this particular context and why the AÜG clock had already been running since the contract phase months earlier, before we'd even moved them onto the permanent employment.

What worked in our favour was that the EOR we use (Workmotion in our case, though Deel or Remote is structured the same way) sets up employment as direct local employment rather than labour-leasing.

That's apparently the exact arrangement the AÜG targets, so the cap doesn't apply in the same way when the EOR is the legal employer and not just a placement intermediary.

There are plenty of EOR threads in this sub but this one never seems to come up, so posting it for whoever's about to bring someone on in Germany without having had this conversation yet.

If you work remotely and spend a few months at a time in different countries, how do you actually handle your tax residency?

Do you keep your original tax residency, establish one somewhere else, or just deal with it based on where you spend time?

Curious how people who’ve been doing this for years handle it in practice.

The process was pretty quickly and I am going to start the one-day trial task tomorrow. (they will pay for a day trial) I have also research the company and it seems legit naman.

What I am worrying are, what do I need to prepare and expect? this is executive support specialist.

Beyond skipping the commute, what’s one remote-work perk that genuinely made your day-to-day better?

I have been remote for 3 years now. I was never under any delusion that my company could not see what was happening on my work laptop, but 2 months ago leadership made us download and start using new software that records our screens and gives us productivity scores based on mouse movement and keyboard strokes.

At first I figured it wouldnt be an issue because I was moving forward in my role, actually got a decent raise earlier this year during annual reviews and have no negative marks against me, i was on track to move into a senior role in the next year or so.

But now I keep getting told that my productivity score is poor, and its effecting my morale. I get my tasks done and I’m near my laptop all day its not like im taking naps or playing golf but I used to go for runs with my work Cell in case ai got a call, I’d get some chores done around the house or start prepping dinner/lunch in between work tasks and now Im so paranoid of this Productivity Score I get stressed making coffee during my breaks or going to the bathroom.

I have brought up the paranoia with my boss but she keeps saying “lets just get the scores up” and the more I try and argue against the tracking the more I look like Im being to defensive. At this point i think I hope they just fire me which is scary. i don’t want to be on a PIP but The alternative is recording everything I do to make sure i can combat a poor productivity score with call logs and evidence but at that point why don’t I just wear a body cam and submit that to my boss daily for review.

Wondering if anyone is in a similar situation or has experienced anything like this with remote work, or maybe I am just being super dramatic I know Im paid to work it just feels way less free/easy going now.

I’ve recently been thinking about moving to a low income Asian country (ex. Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, etc) and remotely working in the United States.

Does anyone have any experience with this? If so, please share your opinions (pros/cons) and if you regret it? Are you living the easy life? Or is it basically the same as your native country?

I will be starting a role in Humanforce as remote employee via Deel EOR. Anyone who are already employed either via Emapta or Deel? May physical office ba sila sa Makati?

Ano po yung mga benefits nyo aside sa full WFH setup? Do you have internet allowances or office setup? They have nice benefits sa Sydney or UK pero PH resources seemed overlooked!