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> We’ll also offer opportunities for you to apply for completely remote work (away from your team or office) based on your role and team needs. Before the pande
by philsnow 5y ago
> We’ll also offer opportunities for you to apply for completely remote work (away from your team or office) based on your role and team needs. Before the pandemic, we had thousands of people working in locations separate from their core teams. I fully expect those numbers to increase in the coming months as we develop more remote roles, including fully all-remote sub teams.
This is the most interesting bit that I saw. For a year+ the official stance has been that there won't be any more fully-remote work after the pandemic than there was before.
- fermentation 5y agoI'm assuming many folks would be scared away from going remote due to the career ramifications of their peers not going remote.
- throwawaygler1 5y ago10+ of my co-workers at Google have left for permanent wfh positions in the last month or so, I suspect that significantly influenced their decision to change their stance. Before that, their attitude was "people will vote with their feet" and when people started actually voting with their feet, this got announced pretty quickly.
- xiphias2 5y agoMy Googler friend already found remote jobs as he started looking a few months ago to go remote (moved from LA to Florida), and he says that he will probably move anyways as the other offers are great.
- philsnow 5y agoI was taken aback by how much more relaxed I felt in general after going 100% remote, after spending 10+ years commuting up to 4 hours round trip per day in the SF bay area. My comp is lower now but it's easily a net win.
- philsnow 5y agoI turned down a very good return offer with google because I knew I wanted to take a 100% remote job (and I let my recruiter know that). Yet another anecdata point.