> Isn't 5 software developers @ $80k / 30hrs just the same as 4 @ $100k / 38hrs? No, there's overhead that comes with just having someone as an employee. That

> Isn't 5 software developers @ $80k / 30hrs just the same as 4 @ $100k / 38hrs? No, there's overhead that comes with just having someone as an employee. That overhead doesn't scale linearly with the employee's working hours. I don't think that this is the primary reason for not getting responses though. Why would a company do it? And why would they listen to a random person who contacted them? Did you just sent out an email to random contact@company.com address? Do you understand how this looks to anyone who receives that kind of communication? I suspect that you're missing a lot of knowledge about the internal power structure in each company which is necessary to make a real change. And there need to be a lot of strong incentives for any big change to happen. If a year ago, you sent every software company in the world an email asking them to move to remote work, I suspect that you would change 0 minds too. The incentive from the pandemic had to be "work remotely or not at all" for many companies' power structures to open up to the idea.