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Do you get an electricity allowance?
I get a stipend every month for home office costs, it's a modest amount, IMO, but it's to partially cover everything I need to pay for to work from home, electricity, internet, even my cellphone, since I occasionally will need to use my personal phone while working (no company issued phones at this place). So if I need to tether to my cell to work because my ISP is down, the stipend covers any costs associated with doing so.
The expectations are significant because of that stipend, but not unreasonable IMO.
The amount is separate from my pay, and untaxed. It's basically a reimbursement for expenses.
Vehicle costs are separate, if I need to drive anywhere for my job, I can submit the distance driven and I'm reimbursed separately, a set amount per unit of distance.
It hasn't happened for me yet but there's a nontrivial chance I may get deployed to another area of the country, in that case, I get airfare, hotel and a meal allotment daily, as well as a rental car to travel to customers sites for the duration I'm there, all at the company's cost. I'm reimbursed 100% for travel in those cases. Anything local is just by distance travelled.
About 80% of our client base is local enough that I can drive myself to their location when needed. It's rare that it is needed. I have not needed to go to a customer's location in the 6-7 months I've been at the job. Others have, and for the most part, they're closer to the customers that they traveled to, compared to me, but I should be ready in case I'm ever needed to travel, whether local or nationally.
Due to the work we do, and our relative size, we're only (currently) servicing clients in our country, nothing international right now, as far as I know. Our business model allows for it, but our specialty, which is our main marketing point, is pretty specialized to our country, so I don't think that will change anytime soon.
The last couple of jobs I held, had similar, but not as generous rules. Talking to the management, they're primarily interested in ensuring that we, the workers, are happy and healthy so we can work efficiently. IMO, it's the best management team that I've worked under so far. If things continue the way they have been so far, I don't see myself leaving anytime soon.
It's offset by the commute cost