Status: LIVE

Working Remotely

General rules

• Work from wherever you like.

• Every team member can always work from home (WFH). This is not a temporary policy due to the pandemic, this is permanent.

• Every team member can always come to the office, no matter the time of day, even if they don’t regularly come. If you have been exclusively remote, and would like to visit the office, ask for a keycard, see Security.

• Our company is remote-friendly, all processes are async-compatible, and all our tools are accessible worldwide, so we support remote work as a first class work-mode. Our CTO has been remote since day 1.

• We don’t really care where you work. These are all A-OK (not an exhaustive list, this is just to give you an idea):

  • WFH from a beach house in the summer, so that you can spend the mornings/evenings on the beach with your family.

  • WFH from a mountain hut, accompanied by a flexible working schedule, so you can catch some powder runs.

  • WFH from your home town for a few weeks, while you stay with your family.

• Do I have to ask to work form home? No.

• Do I have to ask if I want to come to the office? No.

• All of the above applies if you stay within your home country. With international cases, you will need to get approval first – this has nothing to do with us, but rather with labour laws and health insurance implications. See below.

• This explains the “where”. For the the “when do I need to work” see Flexitime Policy (Overtime) .

International cases

• If you want to work from home in another country, I.e. not in the country in which you are employed, then there are some legal implications to consider.

• For example, if you work for 9Y in Vienna and are therefore employed under an Austrian employment contract, and you wish to work from home from another country, this might establish a legal presence of 9Y in that other country and require us to file paperwork in that country, and potentially even require us to employ you in that country by that country’s laws instead of your Austrian contract. This might classify you as a posted worker, or a mobile worker. You might also not have health insurance cover in the other country, so if something were to happen and you needed to go to the doctor, you may end up having to pay for this out of pocket. The rules are different between the EU and other countries, and even within the EU there are differences. Basically, this gets super messy very quickly.

• So we can’t have an automatic “yes fine” policy for international WFH scenarios.

• For shorter stays, it is typically fine. We still need to respect some laws, but the bureaucracy involved is manageable.

• Each such case needs to be reviewed and approved by the CEO on an individual basis. Please make sure to ask well in advance before you intend to travel to allow time to sort out the legalities. Please direct your request to your Team Lead, the CEO will be involved indirectly.