'Work from home' is quickly morphing into 'work from home located in another country', not just at Cisco, but businesses in general. Hmmmm
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Both Euros on my team are working out of Portugal right now. I am in SJ
Lol - flights to India have opened up only in a phased approach via Indian consulate two months ago and as per some enlightened comments here - 100s of people are working out India ..
"So Rules are meant to be weaponized in cisco , and if it is being used on an Indian by another Indian.. it is definitely coz the employee was in bad books."
Here in HQ, usually when a group gets an Indian manager, soon the whole group becomes Indians. This happens in the VP layer too. The result is that all the management laysers become Indians and the whole building is occupied by Indian engineers. Since all employers and employees are closely related to begin with, It is rare to see rules being used on an Indian engineer by an Indian manager, but it does happen. This is when the engineer from a different village / tribe / providence or a lower caste ends in a wrong group after a "VP talent rotation".
"Not by anyone I’ve seen. As a matter of fact I know someone who self-relocated out of California for taxes and was almost fired. Your tax records must match residency."
The above event happened because the employee was in the bad books of some mgr in his chain. ..
If you are in the "good books" everything is allowed, including 3 day work week for SJ location, with those 3 days involving the " engineer" walking around asking updates from other engineers and presenting the results as his own.. at meeting with his boss ( who is also his friend).
So Rules are meant to be weaponized in cisco , and if it is being used on an Indian by another Indian.. it is definitely coz the employee was in bad books.
Working from home in India has long been a tradition in Cisco because it is a very long flight from San Jose back to India. It has nothing to do with Covid. It has more to do with the management that is nearly exclusively Indians in San Jose campus. Some call it favoritism since it is only applicable to Indians.
I will point out that it’s a specific violation of your code of business conduct to be resident in a different country to where you are employed. In fact, I’m pretty sure that when the COBC certification rolls around, you have to certify that you’re in the country of employment.
There are many hundred current situations of employees moving to Indi citing COVID and living the high life on a San Jose salary. No taxes are being paid in India and the H1 employees are living like kings. Same is happening in Singapore, employees secure their SGD salary and continue to live in India.
Not by anyone I’ve seen. As a matter of fact I know someone who self-relocated out of California for taxes and was almost fired. Your tax records must match residency.