{"id":94292,"date":"2025-08-25T09:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/94292\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:06:14","slug":"dear-vicki-my-employer-wont-let-me-work-from-kerry-but-i-cant-find-a-place-i-can-afford-in-dublin-what-should-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/94292\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Vicki: \u2018My employer won\u2019t let me work from Kerry, but I can\u2019t find a place I can afford in Dublin. What should I do?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Review your employment contract and any relevant company documents. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/e2c2ee38-f995-42c3-ae09-e0de97ec5000.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Review your employment contract and any relevant company documents. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Q I have worked for a tech company in Dublin for the last three-and-a-half years. The lease on my rented house has expired, and despite searching for five months, I cannot find an affordable property to rent in Dublin. The nearest option I have seen involves a one-and-a-half-hour commute each way. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I asked my employer if I could work remotely from my hometown in Kerry while I continue my search, but I was told a definite no. I currently work remotely two days a week, and my employer has been happy with my performance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Review your employment contract and any relevant company documents. Photo: Getty Q I have worked for a tech&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,63,99,180,19371,28226],"class_list":{"0":"post-94292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-jobs","12":"tag-latest-news-ticker","13":"tag-service-journalism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}