but more than half turn out to not really be remote
I’m seeing is a lot for software development job postings in Canada. It is “remote” but you are required to live in the city.
More than 75% of Job Posts are Remote
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#12Someone on the internet is wrong!!!
Since onsite is usually implied and rarely mentioned explicitly in the text, taking a corpus that mentions either term will bias heavily towards remote
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Benefits are just an appealing name given to anything an employer chooses to spend money on instead of paying you that money (and the trade typically works in their favor). Certainly, there are cases where contract employment is offered with pay that does not compete well against full-time employment/salary plus benefits, but that is not always the case. Anecdotally, I've seen contracts done as W2 with benefits, even…
Umm, we live in a hell world without universal healthcare. Until that changes bennies are pretty important
I think the point was that some employers may pay you more than enough for you to pay for your own health insurance (even after tax deductions).
(I'm not in the US, you seem to have your own hell there, but still, every 'benefit' has a price tag, no?)
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#14Has anyone seen if there's a clear path to working from an overseas location.
I have an LLC if that works, I figure I could do a Corp to Corp as long as LLC exists within the US.
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#15but more than half turn out to not really be remote
I’m seeing is a lot for software development job postings in Canada. It is “remote” but you are required to live in the city.
Yes a lot of jobs in Canada that are "remote for now"; sometimes made explicit, other times implicit.
Also an uptick in American companies attempting to hire remote from Canada, which is potentially good, except that I doubt many of them actually have the infrastructure (payroll, benefits, etc.) for doing the hire, so it's either contract, or it never actually happens.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Benefits are just an appealing name given to anything an employer chooses to spend money on instead of paying you that money (and the trade typically works in their favor). Certainly, there are cases where contract employment is offered with pay that does not compete well against full-time employment/salary plus benefits, but that is not always the case. Anecdotally, I've seen contracts done as W2 with benefits, even…
Umm, we live in a hell world without universal healthcare. Until that changes bennies are pretty important
Are you saying that you are unable to purchase health insurance in your hell world? I live in the United States, and when I was working as a 1099 contract worker, I bought health insurance for my family for little more than what an employer deducts from my paycheck. It was actually a very nice plan.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Umm, we live in a hell world without universal healthcare. Until that changes bennies are pretty important
I think the point was that some employers may pay you more than enough for you to pay for your own health insurance (even after tax deductions). (I'm not in the US, you seem to have your own hell there, but still, every 'benefit' has a price tag, no?)
Companies of any real size tend to get better rates than most individuals can get because they can average things out over a larger group of people, since odds are a decent % of the people won't need to spend a significant amount on health care any given year. So while there is some cost to the employee it is still probably doing better than if they simply put that money directly in your pocket. But yes US healthcare is insane.
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#18but more than half turn out to not really be remote
I’m seeing is a lot for software development job postings in Canada. It is “remote” but you are required to live in the city.
I've seen a lot of bait and switch from recruiters on this recently.
Job listing: Remote possible
First/Second interview: We would actually prefer this position to be on site.
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#19I also would not be surprised if more American jobs are now hiring people on as contractors only, without the benefits.
Benefits are just an appealing name given to anything an employer chooses to spend money on instead of paying you that money (and the trade typically works in their favor). Certainly, there are cases where contract employment is offered with pay that does not compete well against full-time employment/salary plus benefits, but that is not always the case. Anecdotally, I've seen contracts done as W2 with benefits, even…
>Benefits are just an appealing name given to anything an employer chooses to spend money on instead of paying you that money (and the trade typically works in their favor).
Nominally, this works out for both employer and employee, since those benefits can be paid for with pre tax money. Really, it gives big businesses an advantage over small businesses that cannot afford the costs to administer these benefits or the non discrimination testing. And it advantages businesses over employees by obfuscating what their true pay is.
It also gets hairy for a married couple where one spouse is a W-2 employee with the standard retirement contribution and subsidized health insurance benefits, but the other does not.
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#20most of the stuff I've seen is "temporarily remote" until COVID is over, so there is still an expectation that you will eventually come in. Who knows if that will ever happen, but it is quite a different situation between the two.
I’ve been coaching folks on jumping to new jobs for the last several months (helping others level up is my jam). In all cases, when I’ve told them to have the employer put the remote terms in their offer letter (if it’s not in writing it doesn’t exist), it has been done. Most of the time it’s painless, the few times the candidates have been told no I suggested they walk and the company capitulated in under 12 hours and remote was codified in the offer letter. In no cases is an on site required more than once per month for the folks I’ve been working with, and most are fully remote with zero on site requirement ever (“team building” or otherwise).
Labor market conditions are very clear.