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You’re not alone. My startup is specifically going against the trend and trying to hire in just two locations (Austin and SF), because our founding group feels
by burlesona 5y ago
You’re not alone. My startup is specifically going against the trend and trying to hire in just two locations (Austin and SF), because our founding group feels the same as you. So far when we’ve been recruiting people we lead with “we have two offices and strongly prefer candidates work in one of them.” It either ends the conversation or is our #1 selling point.
I think over time the market will discover what percentage of people want remote and which percent want in-person, and then whatever that percentage is, the distribution of companies going remote or not will match.
- curious_cat_163 5y agoIndeed. You are not alone @OP. BTW, pretty neat trick to help with culture fit for a start-up.
- freddref 5y agoWhat percentages are you seeing?
- burlesona 5y agoSo far about 1/3 of candidates aren’t interested in any on-site, while 2/3 are saying either that’s fine or that’s a positive. Of the 2/3 who are interested, the ones who really pursued the job and we ended up hiring all we’re excited about us prioritizing in-person work. Small sample size though, so I don’t think our experience is enough to extrapolate to the preference ratio among all workers.