If your company asks you to work from home, do they have to pay part of your electricity/internet bill?
Working from you are going to rack up a much higher electricity bill running your PC all day, especially if you need to run a multi monitor setup in order to do your job efficiently. Not to mention AC.
I know in the UK companies were doing this when their employees had to work from home.
I doubt it. Taiwanese usually go to a café, buy a drink and hangout all day in the air conditioned establishment using the wifi.
Of course this is not ideal if video meetings are a big part of your job.
Unlikely. Even if so, you would probably still have to eat up the costs. Taiwan isn’t labor friendly compared to other places. As others have said go to a coffee place (or even 7-11). The real cost with AC tends to be the turning on phase, rather than running it after it is in drift mode.
Or I don’t know… get a laptop, and a 1280 ticket. Sit on the MRT train doing your work with 3G wifi or something. Charge up with one of those MRT charging ports they have at various stations. Free AC, but won’t be very quiet though so there will be distractions. Or do the same on a bus… some buses have REALLY strong AC (but others have nonexistant AC for some reason).
If covid is the true worry, and not just trying to get your company for more money, best not to live in a city then. thats obvious.
I cant imagine a company that pays a person electricity costs to work at home. most people consider it a favor… altenative is likely getting fired unless you are truly THAT important. At which stage i doubt you worry about a few nt for electricity. to each their own. I wouldnt die on this hill, thats for sure.
Since it began. Plenty addequate if a person wont pay for their own. Never had an issue. in either end of the island. Especially after the early stages of annoying sign ins.