Is it fairly common for programmers to work for a company but remotely as well? Like work from home mmajority of the time and meet up only for meetings/updates etc
Hello.<p>I´ve been looking for a remote job since 2013 and I think it´s very hard to find them.<p>In that way I found a new company called watho (watho.net).<p>We are a company focused on contacts between companies which have remote jobs available with the applicants from any part of the world.<p>Currently we have 4 remote open positions.
I've been working remotely off and on since 1991, and for most of the time since 1998. I advise you that it's not as great as it's made out to be - often it is very lonely. When you're stuck on a problem, there may be no one to turn to for help.<p>I've gotten very good at finding the work, and recently decided to share my leads with others:<p><a href="http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/telecommute/" rel="nofollow">http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/telecommute/</a><p>These are only a few of the remote or telecommute jobs I know about - the others I just haven't posted yet, but will do so soon.
I have been working remote for two years now. The office is 800 miles away and I stop in four times a year to say hello.<p>My experience has been that a good number of smaller companies in smaller cities (U.S. Midwest, cities with populations under 100,000), that just can't find local talent and so reluctantly pick up remote workers to fill their ranks.<p>As another poster said. It is lonely. I pay for a co-working office out of pocket so I can get out of the house. If most of the team is in-house and management didn't really "want" to be managing a remote team, then you end up being treating as a kind of necessary evil whose sidelined and left out of the loop most of the time.
It's become fairly common in the startup world to have a few remote programmers, usually due to not being able to find local talent with a specialized skill at a good price.<p>Some big companies are getting into it, largely through acquiring startups or small companies that were already doing it. But these are much more rare. The majority of remote work will be for smaller companies and startups.
It's less common, but if you're willing to contract for the company then working remotely isn't too difficult to find.<p>If you want a salary, then it's easier to start off working on-site then ask to transition to remote down the line - or ask for more flexibility like 1 day off the week, etc.