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I honestly don't understand how any startup can even hope to compete if they don't offer remote options. Hiring is incredibly tight right now, and I'm sure glad my options are "anybody within ~2 timezones" over basically only people within a 15 mile radius of my office because traffic is horrendous in my city. Not to mention, how have companies not realized how to build robust remote company cultures over the past 2…
Because everyone who seriously invests money in businesses knows that there’s a performance hit you take as a remote company. People haven’t been paying for offices for the last ten years for no reason. Engineering is one segment where this penalty seems to be lower. However, engineers seem to be unable to understand that every other function functions better in person. The tradeoff you’re hoping to make is that the…
I know most people will love this, but it's made it newly impossible to find jobs that will sponsor visas for those of us that want to move abroad
Looks like there's plenty of countries that offer remote work visas. https://www.letsdeel.com/blog/remote-work-visas Seems like a problem that will eventually self correct as more jobs go remote and countries realize they have to compete with each other for residents so they can profit off of these worker's productivity.
Not really; the selection of countries is very small and the visas very restrictive/bureaucratic. It's essentially a non-option for most people. Regular work visas are still the way to go unfortunately.
"Nomad visas" are essentially a rainbow-and-unicorn thing; we (developers) really want it to exist but it doesn't (at least in the way we'd like).
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Those aren't the only levers. Imagine a three day work week. Or part time work, letting you also maintain your FANGA job.
You'd get access to a fairly large pool of the "almost wealthy" who have enough wealth saved and invested that it will grow to a nice sum over the decades, but still need some income to avoid touching it over that period. i.e. those in leanFIRE, baristaFIRE, or coastFIRE positions.
I turned on messages (and InMail) on LinkedIn 48 hours ago out of sheer morbid curiosity as to what would happen. At last count I received 124 new messages from recruiters. It's insane how thirsty they are right now. As for the positions; I'm being offered 40-60% of my current salary, and they're in the same range below someone with the same amount experience in the industry niche I inhabit. (That's a pretty good ind…
I get why remote work is popular, and for some tasks/jobs I think it can work well. However, I think in-person interaction is critical for breaking new ground, starting new initiatives, etc. So far, nothing replaces being in the same room hashing out ideas on the whiteboard, etc.
Doesn't need to be done every day or even every week.
I get why remote work is popular, and for some tasks/jobs I think it can work well. However, I think in-person interaction is critical for breaking new ground, starting new initiatives, etc. So far, nothing replaces being in the same room hashing out ideas on the whiteboard, etc.
Working remote , never being late to a meeting , never having to commute, vastly outweighs all that.
I have an odd feeling many people like in person work so they can socialize. We have bars and concerts for that.
We somehow went from COVID will kill us all if we dare step into an office to shut up and get back to work.
Stop wasting money on office space. Let people live wherever ( assuming your in the same country for tax reasons). I love the sheer level of freedom I have.
If I get sick of the city, I can work from a small town in Alaska, Alabama, etc.
Vs being told to commute for 3 hours a day
I get why remote work is popular, and for some tasks/jobs I think it can work well. However, I think in-person interaction is critical for breaking new ground, starting new initiatives, etc. So far, nothing replaces being in the same room hashing out ideas on the whiteboard, etc.
The most productive person I've ever worked with, who was responsible for the biggest initiatives at a previous company worked solo in Hong Kong while the rest of the team was in North America. Never presented an issue. He came up with many innovative ideas in NLP and other ML techniques (not my area). All of his collaboration was over video calls, was never an issue.
Perhaps you are not being inclusive of your remote workers in your brainstorming sessions?
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Marketing works better remote, and most agencies will be remote moving forward forever. Source: I know many agency owners, also am one. Also, most marketers I've been trying to recruit have said their agency's are remote indefinitely now.
This is very interesting, as marketing is usually cited as one of the ones that is "impossible" to do remotely due to the high level of collaboration on very visual elements.
Startups are going to either need to start paying a lot more or giving more serious equity stakes if they want to hire anyone who isn't straight out of college or already wealthy.
It's surprisingly hard to consistently find startups willing to pay over $140k - some offers are low key insulting. However, if I cared less about having any semblance of a social life I'd leave new york immediately. $200k+ full remote, I'd never go back.