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I see this power struggle in job applications. The companies who really want to hire talent will include a remote option. Those with a more constrained vision w
by benterix 2y ago
I see this power struggle in job applications. The companies who really want to hire talent will include a remote option. Those with a more constrained vision will insist on hybrid or even full RTO. As an applicant the first thing I do is to filter out the latter.
- tonymet 2y agoyou're not going to convince companies by condescending to them.
- codr7 2y agoBut it's the truth, and companies that don't adapt will have to settle for the most desperate.
- tonymet 2y agosome smart people find office collaboration more dynamic and effective
- Integrape 2y agoSome smart people will have to settle for the most desperate coworkers.
- piva00 2y agoAnd some smart people find working remotely more fulfilling and focused. It's a matter of preference, over time the companies who do RTO will attract talent that prefers that, remote companies will attract other ones. There are smart people in both cohorts to be alienated if forced to do the other option so I don't get the argument. It's self-selecting if the options exist, the pandemic opened Pandora's Box.
- abenga 2y agoNeither are the companies. It's a two-sided market.
- hosh 2y agoThere are local politics involved where a company might have some kind of tax break or favorable leasing to offices. There are also municipalities concerned that having less workers in downtown areas would reduce economic activity with the shops and resturants in those areas. I have also heard that productivity for remote government jobs is not as high.
- binary132 2y agoSome bigger companies actually own very extensive office properties as part of their asset portfolios.
- hosh 2y agoCommercial real estate has been teetering on trigging the next Black Swan event for the past couple years. No one wants to be holding title to buildings that are vacant and not generating rent.
- red-iron-pine 2y ago1) it's not a black swan if we see it coming, or could see it coming, and predict what it will do and 2) the massive rise in residential housing prices correlates to that risk, as commercial holders want to get out ASAP or at least hedge their risks by buying and renting.
- binary132 2y agoit's the only thing I ever think about when I see these RTO discussions and that makes it extra weird to see people repeating the memes about productivity maybe I'm the exception rather than the rule, but I am much more productive when I'm not surrounded by people
- downrightmike 2y agoWelp, Business 101 would call that the Sunk Cost fallacy, throwing good money after bad.
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