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Given recent Big Tech behavior -- ie Amazon hiring based on work flexibility, then laying people off, then switching to RTO, who would trust these companies eno
by softwaredoug 3y ago
Given recent Big Tech behavior -- ie Amazon hiring based on work flexibility, then laying people off, then switching to RTO, who would trust these companies enough to move across the country for a role?
In my (40 yo+) peer group people have largely settled down somewhere not near a home office during the pandemic. People have the entire cost structure of home ownership, day care, and commuting built around not needing to be in a major metro going into an office. I would be very doubtful, unless the senior-staff-principal hiring faded, that they would comply with RTO before switching roles.
One solution to this could be to do what companies used to do - open more regional branch offices. Don't be so concentrated in one or two major metros that you eliminate any flexibility whatsoever.
- madcaptenor 3y agoI work for a big telecom that has grown by acquisition and so has a lot of regional branch offices... and we're _closing_ a lot of them and pushing people back into big "hub" offices in an RTO push that pretty much everyone acknowledges is a secret layoff.
- ghaff 3y ago>open more regional branch offices To what end? If most of the people you work with are scattered around different regional branch offices, what's the point of going into the nearest one other than to have basically a company-supplied co-working space?
- softwaredoug 3y agoYeah you can't entirely cover the globe. But you CAN offer people more affordable areas to live in. Even if you had a regional office a few hours away, its possible to go in once a week even.
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- AtlasBarfed 3y agoAmazon wants to turn over its workforce as much as possible to keep them cheap and young. This is just another opportunity.
- reaperman 3y agoI make $80k as a full-stack developer with ML application ability. If Amazon hired me at $160k I'd only need to work 6 months before getting fired for moving to prove the safe economic choice. Plus I'd be moving to an area with more jobs and connections.
- rr808 3y ago> In my (40 yo+) peer group people have largely settled down somewhere not near a home office during the pandemic. People have the entire cost structure of home ownership, day care, and commuting built around not needing to be in a major metro going into an office. I find it pretty hard to believe that in a 2 year period during a pandemic families can all move, then are unable to move back again. Perfectly normal that they prefer a quieter location, but I expect eventually we'll move to a framework where there will be a big pay difference between those in the office vs remote due to supply and demand.