Remote Work Annex: A Ready Template Certified by a Licensed Saudi Lawyer

What this annex is and when you need it

An annex is an amendment sheet tied to an existing contract, not a new contract. Its value is that it answers the questions an office-based employment contract leaves silent: where the employee now works, when they must be reachable, who bears the laptop, the phone, and the access tools, and what happens if the business or the employee decides to end the arrangement. Without a written annex all of that becomes unwritten custom, and custom is not what you rely on in a dispute.

• Moving an existing employee to fully remote or hybrid working.
• An employee relocating to another city while the employment relationship stays the same.
• Governing custody of equipment and the mandatory availability window in writing.

What the smart-fill asks and what you receive

The questions are few and direct because the annex is a focused document. It first asks for the original contract date in both the Hijri and Gregorian calendars, the employer's name and the employee's name, and the Qiwa authentication reference where available, so the annex is clearly linked to the original contract.

• The remote mode: fully remote or hybrid.
• The remote work city, the number of working hours, and the mandatory availability window during which the employee is reachable.
• Equipment: whether the employer provides and maintains it or the employee uses their own to specification, with the equipment list in Arabic and English.
• The office return city and the reversal notice in days, so a return to the office is never a sudden decision.

Within minutes you receive a formatted bilingual annex, ready to sign and editable before approval, to attach to the existing employment contract and keep with it in the employee file, so the remote arrangement is documented instead of living in a message thread.

Why a lawyer-certified template beats a free download

Free remote-work templates are usually generic policies borrowed from foreign workplaces. They talk about a culture of flexibility and never address what actually matters: who owns the equipment, what the availability window is, and how the employee returns to the office. The Sighaty template is certified by a licensed Saudi lawyer and drafted as an annex tied to an existing contract rather than a policy floating on its own, and it is updated as the regulations change, so it protects both sides instead of decorating an HR folder.

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