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Re: 70% of startups offer remote work options as hiring heats up, YC data shows

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Post by passivate »

pm90 wrote: post #52
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #40

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…

There seems to be a maddening amount of head in the sanding by execs/VCS etc. I work at a company that’s been fully remote for 2 years but they keep trying to target a Return to Office date that keeps getting pushed back. Just see the reality, accept remote is going to be permanent and invest in making that better for everyone.

I think organizations should be free to shape their own culture, and candidates can chose where they wish to work as well. Maybe the remote/in-person ratio will skew towards remote in the future, but there is no need to deny others' preferences as well. Remote work isn't a "right". There isn't one way of doing things that works in every situation in every industry in every country/culture. People are different, some are more social, some are less, etc, etc. Personally, I enjoy working with others, I love the little personal interactions in the hallway especially with people who I don't regularly work with, and it furthers bonding in our organization. But we're a vaccine company so there is literally no way for us to be remote anyway.

Re: 70% of startups offer remote work options as hiring heats up, YC data shows

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Post by passivate »

xwdv wrote: post #7
endisneigh wrote: post #3

70% Of Startups Offer Remote Work during Pandemic, YC data shows. Let's see how this looks 2 years after the pandemic is over.

90% I predict. There is little to no advantage of having an in-office work force for tech startups unless physical presence is necessary for the job. Managers can crow all they want about wanting to see asses in chairs but the data does not support it.

How did you predict that number?

Re: 70% of startups offer remote work options as hiring heats up, YC data shows

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Post by [deleted] »

moises_silva wrote: post #113
tikhonj wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People keep on saying this but it's just not obviously true. > People haven’t been paying for offices for the last ten years for no reason. Companies do so many suboptimal things that this argument isn't credible. We've seen how many organizations can barely limp through a "digital transformation", so why should we expect them to be operating anywhere near optimally along other axes? They could just as easily be payi…

> People keep on saying this but it's just not obviously true. How is it obviously not true? I mean. I love remote work. I started working remotely way before it was mainstream and I'm advocate for it. I've managed remote teams for many years too. Even so, I can't claim there's no performance hit. I just think the performance hit is small enough that in most cases the benefits for people and businesses outweigh it.

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Re: 70% of startups offer remote work options as hiring heats up, YC data shows

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Post by d3nj4l »

pm90 wrote: post #52
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #40

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…

There seems to be a maddening amount of head in the sanding by execs/VCS etc. I work at a company that’s been fully remote for 2 years but they keep trying to target a Return to Office date that keeps getting pushed back. Just see the reality, accept remote is going to be permanent and invest in making that better for everyone.

    I work at a company that’s been fully remote for 2 years but they keep trying to target a Return to Office date that keeps getting pushed back.
Likewise, and it's maddening, because I don't have any sense of long term stability to invest in my home as I'll have to move if the Return to Office actually happens.

Re: 70% of startups offer remote work options as hiring heats up, YC data shows

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Post by tikhonj »

moises_silva wrote: post #113
tikhonj wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People keep on saying this but it's just not obviously true. > People haven’t been paying for offices for the last ten years for no reason. Companies do so many suboptimal things that this argument isn't credible. We've seen how many organizations can barely limp through a "digital transformation", so why should we expect them to be operating anywhere near optimally along other axes? They could just as easily be payi…

> People keep on saying this but it's just not obviously true. How is it obviously not true? I mean. I love remote work. I started working remotely way before it was mainstream and I'm advocate for it. I've managed remote teams for many years too. Even so, I can't claim there's no performance hit. I just think the performance hit is small enough that in most cases the benefits for people and businesses outweigh it.

I do not think that it is obviously false, I think it is not obvious that it is true.

Re: 70% of startups offer remote work options as hiring heats up, YC data shows

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Post by AlexCoventry »

cm2012 wrote: post #119
AlexCoventry wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are the advantages of remote work, for marketing?

1) More access to talent and happier talent. 2) As an agency, everyone being remote means we are more embedded with clients than before. All on the same Slack etc instead of in a separate office. 3) People use better collaboration tools 4) More things are written down

Thanks.

Re: 70% of startups offer remote work options as hiring heats up, YC data shows

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Post by bin_bash »

mstibbard wrote: post #59
keithnz wrote: post #14

Be interesting to know for the "remotes" how remote is remote. Some are localish remotes, some are world wide remotes, and some somewhere in-between. One of the problems seems to be ( and I'm sure some start up will try to solve this) is employing people worldwide has a lot of legal issues with regards to local employment laws and payment issues.

I think most "remotes" are within time zone-proximity. The employment regulation burden is also massive for going truly global-remote. Australia and NZ for example have strong employment laws AND do not overlap time zone-wise with most of the rest of the world. We have some great talent here but it's often too hard to make it work. Disclaimer: I made https://rafo.com.au to collate remote jobs that work for Aussies &…

it's also hard to work with people across hemispheres because of daylight saving time. I'm used to the hour difference I have with people I work with in Europe but I have no idea how many hours I'm separated from Australians because it changes 4 times through the year.

Re: 70% of startups offer remote work options as hiring heats up, YC data shows

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Post by tikhonj »

passivate wrote: post #126
tikhonj wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People keep on saying this but it's just not obviously true. > People haven’t been paying for offices for the last ten years for no reason. Companies do so many suboptimal things that this argument isn't credible. We've seen how many organizations can barely limp through a "digital transformation", so why should we expect them to be operating anywhere near optimally along other axes? They could just as easily be payi…

>We've seen how many organizations can barely limp through a "digital transformation", so why should we expect them to be operating anywhere near optimally along other axes? This is a bad argument. Just because they do one thing poorly (in your opinion - no proof) that doesn't mean they're wrong about remote work. Quite ironic considering you called out the other commenter for bad arguments. In any case, the proof as…

It doesn't mean they're wrong, but it means there is no reason to believe they're right either. Doubly so when there are a lot of other plausible systematic reasons for companies to do something!

Re: 70% of startups offer remote work options as hiring heats up, YC data shows

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Post by tcmart14 »

moises_silva wrote: post #113
tikhonj wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People keep on saying this but it's just not obviously true. > People haven’t been paying for offices for the last ten years for no reason. Companies do so many suboptimal things that this argument isn't credible. We've seen how many organizations can barely limp through a "digital transformation", so why should we expect them to be operating anywhere near optimally along other axes? They could just as easily be payi…

> People keep on saying this but it's just not obviously true. How is it obviously not true? I mean. I love remote work. I started working remotely way before it was mainstream and I'm advocate for it. I've managed remote teams for many years too. Even so, I can't claim there's no performance hit. I just think the performance hit is small enough that in most cases the benefits for people and businesses outweigh it.

I am curious. I guess it also depends on the company, but endless meaningless meetings is pretty popular. With online teams, do you feel like there is the performance advantage?

Re: 70% of startups offer remote work options as hiring heats up, YC data shows

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Post by shagie »

anonporridge wrote: post #2

Cool. Now start offering more part time roles.

For a developer role, I have difficulty seeing how part time is economical.

An article from 2019: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/720122267

> GARCIA: The occupation with the single biggest part-time penalty is web developer. Wages for part-time web developers are 49.5% less than wages for full-time web developers. And that is our PLANET MONEY indicator - part-time web developers make only about half as much per hour as full-time web developers.

So if a FTE is making $100/h and working 40h/w, a part time developer is making $50/h and working 20h/w... though those are just numbers that I made up. They will vary.

The issue for the organization is that as a developer, part time makes a complete hash of the maker schedule when combined with actually having meetings.

I've been able to get my managers to try to schedule meetings clustered together so that I have chunks of time where I can work each day. But if I was part time - either fewer days per week or fewer hours per day, that would in turn translate to smaller maker time blocks or maker time blocks that were separated from each other by more than a day.

I see this with part time interns - where the ones work work each day are much more efficient at what they're doing than the ones that come in twice a week and have to get back into the grove of what they were working on and that takes a significant part of the time of when they get back in for that day.

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