• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    I’ve got some friends who work in corporate insurance, they get shipped all over the world, though still have to go to the office a couple of times a week when not away somewhere

    I’m a software engineer and you can find yourself sent abroad for conferences or to do workshops with other teams in other offices (if you work for an international company). Though they’re being a bit more pushy about getting people in the offices recently, so once again, not going to be necessarily 100% remote in that scenario (though some places manage to make it work)

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      13 days ago

      sent abroad for conferences or to do workshops with other teams in other offices (if you work for an international company)

      My employer was like this when I started. It was a growing company that wasn’t too big yet, so it had the culture and perks of a startup, but without the downsides of being too small. Even as regular ICs, we got to travel internationally at least once a year to attend conferences or visit our offices in another country. We were also able to attend training abroad. We were eventually acquired by a very big company with all the bureaucracy and red tape and now all those travel perks are all but gone.