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There's a fun potential unanticipated consequence if companies continue allowing remote work for "professional" sorta roles. Imagine a couple of lawyers workin
by majormajor 6y ago
There's a fun potential unanticipated consequence if companies continue allowing remote work for "professional" sorta roles.
Imagine a couple of lawyers working for a firm in Houston making $$$$ who can now keep that same job but live in San Diego and not deal with the same weather... especially, say, if their kids just moved away anyway.
You could conceivably have desirable locations being a new sort of "bedroom community" that only the super-highly-paid can afford, regardless of where their employer is based.
- gnicholas 6y agoPerhaps for other roles, but much less so for lawyers. For one thing, legal practice is local and involves networking that happens locally. Additionally, if a lawyer moves to a new state, he might have to take the bar exam again in order to be licensed in that jurisdiction. This applies even if the type of law that the lawyer practices hasn’t changed. This seems a bit crazy, but I actually experienced this as a California lawyer (practicing federal corporate tax) who started spending time in another state where my girlfriend lived. Fortunately she got a job in CA before I had to take the bar in her state.