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It'll be great for every business's back to office plans. If we really are entering a major tech downturn, employers are going to be in the driver's seat in a
by ThrowawayR2 4y ago
It'll be great for every business's back to office plans. If we really are entering a major tech downturn, employers are going to be in the driver's seat in a way that will have the HN "I would never ever work for a corporation that requires in-office/leetcode/etc." crowd reeling.
- kadoban 4y agoSmart corps should have realized by now that offices are a huge, mostly unnecessary cost. There will be a bunch of places not forcing RTO.
- ThrowawayR2 4y agoSmart corps should have realized by now that open office spaces are disliked by employees, are noisy, etc. Looks like there aren't very many smart corps...
- kadoban 4y agoTrue. But the difference here is that the corp directly and immediately benefits, by reduced costs. It's easier to be smart if it means more money in your pocket. Cost is probably part of why open offices were a thing anyway, reduced costs and more flexibility. So incentives are aligned with WFH, but weren't with open office bullshit. That should be the difference here.
- the_only_law 4y agoLuckily I’ve been planning to jump ship early.
- gopher_space 4y agoA "tech downturn" isn't the same thing as a lack of work for programmers. The volume of work to be done across all industries is immense, and it's profitable for everyone.
- paganel 4y agoCan’t speak for the US but the EU is literally throwing hundreds of billions of euros right at this moment for “digitalization” and such as part of their post-pandemic recovery plan, it’s a gold rush (relatively speaking) for IT-related people who know where to look.