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How about hiring? Instead of being restricted to talent in the 30 miles radius around your office building, you can effectively hire anywhere in the country, or
by joeax 11y ago
How about hiring? Instead of being restricted to talent in the 30 miles radius around your office building, you can effectively hire anywhere in the country, or the world. No need to displace someone and their family from their existing community and then cover their relocation costs, just so they can jockey an office chair in your building. And no more need to constantly belly ache on blogs and articles that there is a "talent shortage".
I'd say that's a substantial advantage.
- FLUX-YOU 11y agoSalary negotiations will be a bit different since you're also competing with all local jobs. So you can take on multiple devs and pay them differently if they have similar skills (hard to measure anyway), or you can pay everyone the same and limit what markets you pull from. The former could get ugly if anyone found out.
- bjelkeman-again 11y agoIt is an advantage. But it isn't without disadvantages. Not everyone thrives in a distributed environment and it is hard to do certain type of work (brainstorming, very interactive requirements and design work, for example) in a remote only setting. It is also harder to build good team spirit, when you don't hang out together. It is possible, but it isn't a no-brainer even when you look at all the advantages. We have a hybrid model with a lot of us focused in hubs, but working remotely part of the time now.