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Given if the alternative is that they can get a remote job elsewhere easily, why not?
by mewpmewp2 6y ago
Given if the alternative is that they can get a remote job elsewhere easily, why not?
- rapsey 6y agoThere for sure will not be that many remote jobs.
- mewpmewp2 6y agoIf it's evident that being remote is just as effective or more why wouldn't most companies start catching the eyes of their potential candidates with that?
- threatofrain 6y agoThat's what it would take for work-from-home to organically catch on. Either the delta is obvious or it isn't.
- nilkn 6y agoThe delta is pretty obvious, though. Companies that aren't in tech hubs no longer have to hire from a limited local talent pool, and companies that are in tech hubs can save on both office and salary expenses by hiring across the country. I've already seen local companies announce permanent hybrid models due to the former and large Silicon Valley unicorns like Coinbase announce permanent hybrid models due to the latter. And speaking very anecdotally, where I work we've done plenty of surveys on WFH and the results were very clear: not allowing any kind of hybrid model would've become a retention disaster over time. The desire for at least some kind of flexibility post-pandemic was overwhelming.
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- dnissley 6y agoThat's a pretty big given.
- tjr225 6y agoI had been working remotely for a startup based in the bay area for a couple of years prior to the pandemic and living in a low COL area for a year of that experience. I promise you it is much harder to find remote work than otherwise; even during a pandemic. I ended up relocating back to a high COL area because of this difficulty(among a few other things). Once you realize you have to take a 50% pay cut to work anywhere else(or find another high paying remote job- good luck, everyone else wants one too!) remote work becomes a very tight, and scary leash.
- aidenn0 6y agoTFA implies that most remote work will not be full-time remote. Therefore many of the same frictions of changing jobs now will still exist.
- ghaff 6y agoMy guess is that there will be more full-time remote jobs. But I do expect that most of the tech jobs being discussed will still be attached to an office with a general expectation that teams get together semi-regularly. So long as it's only one day per week or less, that gives people a lot of flexibility in where they live but it does mean they probably can't move to a ski town.