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They aren't going to win this without tossing titanic amounts of money around to land folks that are willing to do this.
by outside1234 6y ago
They aren't going to win this without tossing titanic amounts of money around to land folks that are willing to do this.
- throwawayboise 6y agoYou assume that developers won't work for lower salaries, in exchange for the value that WFH provides?
- PragmaticPulp 6y agoIn practice, I've found that most candidates don't really care about anything other than total compensation. I've worked at companies that offered private offices, work from home, great health insurance, flexible schedules, catered lunch every day, and all of the usual perks. We'd still lose out on hires to companies offering a couple thousand more than we did. Come decision time, few people are actually willing to take the lower number. People willing to compromise compensation for other benefits are out there, but they're more rare than you might think.
- faeriechangling 6y agoNetflix was pretty famous for pushing the idea that employees respond to cash more than anything else and did a lot to promote this idea among hot tech companies and I absolutely believe this is the mindset many managers have. I've got to say though even if people are obsessed with the bottom line when it comes to picking a job, I've got to think stuff like WFH also impacts retention in some way. For me I'm physically healthier under WFH which means just my ability to keep a job skews me towards WFH jobs even before we consider preference.
- PragmaticPulp 6y ago> I absolutely believe this is the mindset many managers have I went into this thinking Netflix was wrong and that most employees valued the big picture more than total comp. For the most part, the hiring market proved me wrong and Netflix right. :)