Hello! I'm remote due to personal matters (family member is disabled, I'm a caregiver) and my employer is threatening to move all employees back into the office full time. I just got an offer at another employer for comparable pay and benefits and guaranteed remote work. I like my current employer, but I don't want to be forced back into the office ever and want to move eventually (years from now). Can I use my offer to fight for permanent remote and how do I approach it?

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Certainly, you have every right to negotiate with your currently employer and say you've got another offer. But you need to be willing to walk away if they say no to letting you stay remote. There will be other good companies out there, especially if you have another offer already you have every right to choose the work style that best fits you

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In terms of how to approach it, you can lay it out nicely for them and say "look, I love working here but with the possibility of having to come back into office, that just isn't possible for me. I have a competing offer that allows me to stay remote, are you able to offer me that?" (Honestly if you have an offer in hand id always try and renegotiate salary too as a part of it) at the end of the day, if you put down the other offer as a threat, you need to be able to follow through with it (as in if your current employer says no to your demands, you leave the company)

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weren’t you in the office before covid, what’s the problem

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