Our last hiring round was for a senior system administrator. We currently have 10 student workers "underneath" this position, and something like 30 percent of t

Our last hiring round was for a senior system administrator. We currently have 10 student workers "underneath" this position, and something like 30 percent of the employees time is spent mentoring students to do the work. We're okay with occasional work from home days, but a 100 percent remote person is basically a non-starter. There's a number of tasks that cannot easily be done remotely: 1. Recruiting and Interviewing students. 2. Installing equipment into datacenters. 3. Letting customers into the datacenter after hours. 4. Face-to-face student mentoring. Hiring a 100% remote employee essentially means a substantial shift in in the other employee's (ie me) duties. We recruited for this position globally, but a number of prospects were only interested in working remotely. It makes sense for the prospects -- remote work frees up a family to follow one spouse's career. It makes filling positions harder obviously. But the only way we'd be able to accommodate that equitably is by dropping the focus on student employees, and we'd need a lot more cash flow to make that happen.