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> I am not worth more or less because of where I work. You're worth less now because the job applicant pool just became worldwide instead of just where you wor
by fermienrico 6y ago
> I am not worth more or less because of where I work.
You're worth less now because the job applicant pool just became worldwide instead of just where you work.
- satysin 6y agoPossible. Also possible I am worth more as now I am not restricted to the employment options within ~1 hour of where I live. For example to companies willing and able to pay more. I found I was the latter which was one of the reasons I decided to go all in on working remotely.
- JSavageOne 6y agoIf he's already working remotely, then presumably he was already competing with the worldwide applicant pool.
- ikeyany 6y agoHe was competing with the worldwide applicant pool that was willing to work remotely. That pool just increased in size, considerably.
- satysin 6y agoKind of. The positions I take were obviously already remote so anyone wanting/willing to work remotely could have applied as well. Being remote had nothing to do with the current pandemic. Also if someone dislikes working remotely they won’t look for such jobs in the future. Of course there are those that never really thought about it as an option that are new to this crazy new world but I welcome them all. The more the better in my opinion as it normalises the whole idea which many seem to be very against. Obviously I am biased towards remote work due to the life changing effect it had for me. I was never happy in an office every day. Sometimes was fine but not every day for no good reason. I get back two days of time a month just from time saved commuting. That’s 24 days a year saved.
- ikeyany 6y agoI think we are collectively underestimating the number of people who never really thought of remote work as an option. But I also hope to be proven wrong here. It also makes sense that although you may be biased towards remote work, you wouldn't feel particularly threatened. The people most affected by this are those just starting their careers, who wouldn't have the resume to be very picky about the nature of the remote work available to them.
- JSavageOne 6y agoSure, and so did the supply of remote jobs.
- foogazi 6y agoI keep seeing this on HN - but the pool was always global There’s visas, international offices, remote workers, etc
- lentil_soup 6y agoThat's only true for the bigger companies that can afford it. Smaller ones usually ask for you to be legally allowed to work in the country, at least that's been my experience. Also your skill/experience plays a role. In a previous company I was only allowed to hire non-residents for mid or senior roles. Juniors had to be local.
- _ZeD_ 6y agoAT MOST, the pool is the same timezone part of the world. I saw too many problems when you are +8 or -4 hours of the rest of your team.
- bregma 6y agoI manager a medium-sized team that spanned from UTC+3 to UTC+8 with me in the middle at UTC-5. It was great. Of course, it depends on what you do and how you work. If you job is to sing choral music, then yeah, there's going to be trouble. We were software developers.
- ghaff 6y agoI'm sure it varies--and, at some level, you deal with what you have to deal with. But, in my experience, ongoing synchronous communications can still work pretty well over about a 6 hour delta (i.e. US ET to CET). We don't have a lot of people on the west coast and they just have to get on early calls some days. Asia is much harder to communicate with in real-time and people just need to get up early or stay up late now and then.