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I know of a couple SV startups that went from <100 employees to a couple hundred during the pandemic. Which means that these companies are now essentially distr

I know of a couple SV startups that went from <100 employees to a couple hundred during the pandemic. Which means that these companies are now essentially distributed across the country and the employees have mostly never met each other in person. I can’t imagine these companies forcing their new workforce to move to SV so they are almost forced to be fully remote going forward. As an aside, I kind of really like working in central time for a company operating in pacific time. Works well for my sleep schedule and gives me a couple hours of pure productivity in the morning before the rest of the company “wakes up.”

NeverFade 6y ago
> I can’t imagine these companies forcing their new workforce to move to SV so they are almost forced to be fully remote going forward. Yes, that's not going to happen. Employees who were hired remotely during the pandemic, or even those who moved away during the pandemic, are not just going to move back once the pandemic is over. It's especially clear for those who never lived in SV. These folks were happy to live and work locally in remote locations for their entire career so far. They chose to stay in their location for years, over moving to SV. If you try to force them to move to SV, they'll just quit and continue working locally as they've done before.
ArtWomb 6y ago
Yeah, it's great to watch the sunrise, check overnight markets in Euro and Asia, and get ahead of the day. I like the East Coast time zone. And find colleagues on West Coast generally like to hack late into the night their time. "While the rest of the world sleeps". Many don't even saunter into work until past noon. There can be a bit of a disconnect when trying to synchronize. But EST also aligns with Brazil as its same latitude. And Tokyo is exactly 12 hours diff so 8am in Japan is 8pm in New York which makes late night chats fun as well ;)

NeverFade 6y ago

> I can’t imagine these companies forcing their new workforce to move to SV so they are almost forced to be fully remote going forward. Yes, that's not going to happen. Employees who were hired remotely during the pandemic, or even those who moved away during the pandemic, are not just going to move back once the pandemic is over. It's especially clear for those who never lived in SV. These folks were happy to live and work locally in remote locations for their entire career so far. They chose to stay in their location for years, over moving to SV. If you try to force them to move to SV, they'll just quit and continue working locally as they've done before.

ArtWomb 6y ago

Yeah, it's great to watch the sunrise, check overnight markets in Euro and Asia, and get ahead of the day. I like the East Coast time zone. And find colleagues on West Coast generally like to hack late into the night their time. "While the rest of the world sleeps". Many don't even saunter into work until past noon. There can be a bit of a disconnect when trying to synchronize. But EST also aligns with Brazil as its same latitude. And Tokyo is exactly 12 hours diff so 8am in Japan is 8pm in New York which makes late night chats fun as well ;)