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Today it's a job-seeker's market, and that is likely to continue for some time to come. If your company won't play ball, it's time to find another field to pla

Today it's a job-seeker's market, and that is likely to continue for some time to come. If your company won't play ball, it's time to find another field to play in.

dzhiurgis 5y ago
If so many people are pissed off at coming back to office wouldn't remote jobs would be super demanded? I've looked at some recently and tons of jobs require office presence. Finding something outside of US is near impossible.
- cableshaft 5y ago
  They are highly demanded[1], companies are just extremely stubborn and are trying to force employees to accept their terms. You could see that the past year and a half in restaurants that are willing to close down entirely (often with a sign saying they're short staffed) for days, weeks, or permanently, rather than raise their wages enough to hire and keep the employees they need to function. [1]: "Newly published research from the Pew Research Center that surveyed roughly 10,000 Americans from Jan. 24 to Jan. 30 found that nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, roughly 6 in 10 U.S. workers who say their jobs can be done from home, at 59 percent, are doing so from home all or most of the time. Now, more workers say they are working from home out of choice than necessity. Among those who have a workplace outside of their home, 61 percent said they are choosing not to go in, while 38 percent said they’re working from home specifically because their workplace is closed or unavailable to them. Interestingly, Pew Research noted just the opposite was true earlier in the pandemic, with 64 percent of people indicating they were working from home because their office was closed while 36 percent said they were choosing to work from home." https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/smart-cities/594565-more-americans-choosing-to-work-from-home-instead-of https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/smart-cities...
- thedougd 5y ago
  I've been desperate to hire for the last two years. There's no way I can filter for location at this point. It took work, but we've made remote only official through HR and made our last several hires as remote only. We still aim for same or similar time zone. Most companies are in this situation.

Today it's a job-seeker's market, and that is likely to continue for some time to come. If your company won't play ball, it's time to find another field to play in.

dzhiurgis 5y ago

If so many people are pissed off at coming back to office wouldn't remote jobs would be super demanded? I've looked at some recently and tons of jobs require office presence. Finding something outside of US is near impossible.

cableshaft 5y ago
They are highly demanded[1], companies are just extremely stubborn and are trying to force employees to accept their terms. You could see that the past year and a half in restaurants that are willing to close down entirely (often with a sign saying they're short staffed) for days, weeks, or permanently, rather than raise their wages enough to hire and keep the employees they need to function. [1]: "Newly published research from the Pew Research Center that surveyed roughly 10,000 Americans from Jan. 24 to Jan. 30 found that nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, roughly 6 in 10 U.S. workers who say their jobs can be done from home, at 59 percent, are doing so from home all or most of the time. Now, more workers say they are working from home out of choice than necessity. Among those who have a workplace outside of their home, 61 percent said they are choosing not to go in, while 38 percent said they’re working from home specifically because their workplace is closed or unavailable to them. Interestingly, Pew Research noted just the opposite was true earlier in the pandemic, with 64 percent of people indicating they were working from home because their office was closed while 36 percent said they were choosing to work from home." https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/smart-cities/594565-more-americans-choosing-to-work-from-home-instead-of https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/smart-cities...
thedougd 5y ago
I've been desperate to hire for the last two years. There's no way I can filter for location at this point. It took work, but we've made remote only official through HR and made our last several hires as remote only. We still aim for same or similar time zone. Most companies are in this situation.