Been in interviews lately when the company is asking if I would go into the office even though their current employee policy states that no one is going back into the office for the rest of this year. How do you go about responding? What's the reason for asking this as part of the interview?

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I would respond by saying:

“I’m confident in my abilities to deliver exceptional performance from anywhere in the world. While I love the office setting for its collaboration and the abilities for me to build relationships with my colleagues, my duty & responsibility is to produce value for OUR clients, so to answer your question. If my client wants me in the office, I’ll be in the office, otherwise, I’ll follow with company policy.”

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Np, good luck - but if you got expertise in GA, PowerBi, Tableau, can write Python, R - DM me and let me know what your looking for

To judge your willingness to get the job needed if being in the office was critical.

I agree that makes sense for production. This is for a reporting/analytics role so I thought it was a weird requirement considering the tasks can all be done off-site.

I was called back into the interview process recently after I started interviewing for the position prior to coronavirus shut down. I was asked a similar question. The interviewer explained they had polled their employees and would use my answer in their data. Its a way to count your vote since you wouldn't have participated in the poll.

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