Work from home. What does the company provide?

[Quintrix]

Question for full time employees that have made the (permanent) switch or are thinking about it ( larger companies preferred)

What tools of the trade, benefits, financial assistance have or will your company provide to assist with the switch?

 

[JohnStarr]

Question for full time employees that have made the switch or are thinking about it ( larger companies preferred)

What tools of the trade, benefits, financial assistance have or will your company provide to assist with the switch?

I could take a chair home and my monitors. Otherwise nothing. I pay extra for the electricity and the Internet connection. But I get to WFH, even if it's just for now.

 

[duckgray]

we got to take our screens home. apparently some were able to take their chairs home too.

 

[Quintrix]

I could take a chair home and my monitors. Otherwise nothing. I pay extra for the electricity and the Internet connection. But I get to WFH, even if it's just for now.

Using your personal pc/laptop?

 

[JohnStarr]

Using your personal pc/laptop?

Work laptop.

 

[MaisonP]

Data allowance, Laptop, chair, screens etc.

 

[dualmeister]

Before it happened they said they would pay for our internet connection.
But, never did

 

[maxxis]

The reasoning is you don’t spend money on travel anymore so your internet and added electricity cost is balanced out.

I could take my laptop.

 

[Aghori]

Internet, electricity, laptops, UPS, tax break on "office space" in your home and reduced working hours.

 

[AstroTurf]

I could take part of my salary but almost back to full time at work again, just much more flexi

 

[dadecoza]

We were allowed to take our monitor and chair home. There is no financial assistance but the savings on petrol is great.

EDIT: We do get a mifi router with zero rated APN to our corporate network.

 

[Pegasus]

Just a work laptop. Paying for internet etc myself.
But saving about 2k to 3k a month at least.

 

[Rosaudio]

I was given R1k towards a monitor and R2k towards a chair.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Question for full time employees that have made the (permanent) switch or are thinking about it ( larger companies preferred)

What tools of the trade, benefits, financial assistance have or will your company provide to assist with the switch?

Depends on your expected level of freedom:

Screens; it becomes the companies.
Laptop; it becomes the companies.
Internet; it becomes the companies.
...

I've only got my work laptop and that is it because I don't want to share-in with my internet.

 

[maumau]

A monitor, a chair and, like @AstroTurf, part of my salary

 

[duckgray]

We were allowed to take our monitor and chair home. There is no financial assistance but the savings on petrol is great.

EDIT: We do get a mifi router with zero rated APN to our corporate network.

talking about savings, don't forget about the money not spent buying snacks from the canteen or vending machines at the office.

 

[Herr der Verboten]

talking about savings, don't forget about the money not spent buying snacks from the canteen or vending machines at the office.

And now reinvested time lost in traffic? That hour or two you can now wash the dishes.

 

[Snyper564]

All I need is the laptop and internet connection, dont use the internet connection as im on uncapped.

Bought a chair myself - Section 11(e) tax writeoff

Cant complain no 1.5-2h travel everyday. Filed car 2x last 1.5 years

 

[Lupus]

We were allowed to take our monitors, but by that time I had already organised a 27" which was replaced with a 32".
It's half our data allowance covered and our work laptops

 

[notayoba]

Been working from home for 13 years now.

I get a R500 subsidy towards an internet connection, a high end laptop, and any travel and accommodation expenses should I have to go to the office.