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This is important but so difficult. I'm one of the co-founders at Turtle(dot)ai. We have no problem attracting amazing developers who want total remote flex and
by vlokshin 9y ago
This is important but so difficult. I'm one of the co-founders at Turtle(dot)ai. We have no problem attracting amazing developers who want total remote flex and to work 10-30 hours per week across different projects.
We absolutely have a hurdle with convincing most companies that output = output and that remote work is ok. Companies still put an unreasonable amount of value on butt-in-seat, 9-5 work.
Why? How can we get hiring managers and companies past this?
We try to convince with logic. We show what companies spend on hiring their own devs (20K+ hiring cost, 10-20K/mo salary). Startups tend to go hire-crazy after raising, but it's rare that they need to go 0 to 1 with full-time, local hiring. Going remote can save them a ton (on hourly and on not paying a salary for someone to twiddle their thumbs or show up before a boss does).
Our "easy way out" is to find companies who are already remote friendly. I remain convinced that this is a cultural hurdle we'll get over, but I'd be a liar if I told you I had timing perfectly predicted.