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Can you use the hotspot on your phone for all your work-related items? Mine is quite fast, but I'm also in a major metro area.
I think if you gave that a try, and it wasn't fast enough or cost even more, you'd have a good case for an exception to the rule on home internet.
Yes, there’s incremental charges for data use beyond that. But it’s still governed by the DT contract.
At least for my team we try to use our phone hotspot and if that really doesn’t work, I would yes go ahead and expense that. Probably spread that across multiple projects and let your teams know ahead of time.
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Try Calling your provider and ask them to waive the surcharge. Or switch to unlimited plan. Frankly I didnt even know there were plan with limited data. How do you watch Netflix?
In a suburb in one of the Carolina states.
I definitely would ask your leadership team since this a valid point, however they’re experiencing high costs and want to reduce the expenses they’re incurring. Most likely you’ll have to swallow the fees.
Yeah hotspot is great solution and that way firms pay
Don’t listen to D2. Stupid way to get a reprimand.
Ours is covered.
Expense it. It sounds to me like you can point to a direct incremental cost of working from home. And that extra $100 to $200 dollars a month is probably nothing to your engagements. If this was me I know my SM and partner would approve no question. bill it to your client WBS not admin. If needed include a pdf of bill, and prior bills, and plan limits etc.
So you have a hotspot, but you probably only have up to 20GB data? Do you have unlimited? Who is going to truly pay for all of this very expensive data? This varies by firm, but some only cover around 3GB on their policy.
Point is, the hotspot is somewhat in the firms control, it’s on their wireless plan, charged to an Amex, etc. whereas if you’re charging your internet through it becomes somewhat of a nightmare for the firm to track and confirm it’s a valid expense.
To give you an idea of how much data my project uses is that I’m pushing around 1 TB (1 TB = ~1000 GBs) of data a month.
I don’t think I could push that much data over a mobile hotspot but if I could, most consumer plans charge $10 for every extra 1 GB of overage.
I realize that Deloitte negotiates a rate that is far less than the $10/1 GB you see on consumer plans but if I did this over my work phone, my work phone bill would be probably be over $5000 a month in data overage costs instead of the $100-200 extra I’m paying my local cable company in there data overage costs.
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At least you’re saving on gas going to and from work.
My commuting costs were like $350 a month. And I only went into the office 3x a week.
No you cannot expense better internet. Talent sent out an email specifically saying you can’t do it.
If you need to use less, try going into the office?
Isn’t Deloitte laying people off? Doubt they would agree to expensing Internet cost at this time
Not at all unreasonable. Data costs aren’t free.
Some providers were dropping caps due to home schooling and WFH. Unfortunately others look at it to increase your price.