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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 sokoloff »

d3nj4l wrote: post #134
pm90 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> I’ll have to move

Move houses or companies?

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

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Post by midrus »

HatchedLake721 wrote: post #203
midrus wrote: post #193

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Not my experience at all. The last two companies I've worked for where 100% remote, in both of these places engineering was a lot more productive. I personally invested less total time in work (about 7 or 8 hours total) and got a lot more done. Both of these companies had a culture of writing things down, so everything was documented, an all important conversations where posted in the open for anyone to see. Everythi…

Out of curiosity, where and how things were documented? And where were important conversations posted?

In my opinion, any tool that allows teams/individuals to publish/post updates and subscribe to other teams/individuals' posts or updates can work. Bonus points if you can have threaded conversations (like HN), examples:

- https://friday.app/

- https://wordpress.com/p2/

- https://www.yammer.com/ (is this still a thing? used it like 10 years ago)

- etc...

We also used slack (or equivalent... also used hipchat, and even jabber before that) for ephemeral, one off, non important stuff. And then a lot happens also in READMEs, Merge/Pull Requests, Gitlab issues, helpdesk tickets, etc. Not much use of emails other than for notifications.

At the end of the day everything has a link and things can reference each other.

I think what most companies are missing is a way for employees to "post" and "subscribe" to updates that are interesting for them.

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

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Post by pydry »

shagie wrote: post #184
snicker7 wrote: post #177

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Programming is the easy part. It’s the collaboration and communication that get you. Working part time means a higher ratio of your time is spent communicating and syncing up rather than doing “actual work”.

This also may suffer from an explosion of Brook's Law. So, now you're working less on "actual work" which means that for the organization to get similar amounts of stuff done, they need to hire more people... which means that a larger portion of the time is spent communicating and syncing up.

This is every large company I've worked at in the last 5 years.

Brooks' law has exponentially increased the amount of syncing required and the explosion of open source and SaaSes has shrunk the amount of coding required.

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

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Post by sokoloff »

DoingIsLearning wrote: post #216

I still see a lot of bait and switch with HR messaging me with offers tagged as remote and then describing the job as 3x days remote 2 days on-site or something along those lines. Even in platforms that have the additional tag of 'hybrid' instead of remote (e.g. Linkedin). Very frustrating lack of transparency if you ask me.

On the bright side, that’s at least a strong signal that usually comes up before you’ve committed to join. (You’re lamenting that this specific lack of transparency comes up as late as it does, which is fair, but there’s a bright side that lack of transparency reveals itself while it’s still comparatively early.)

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Post by KaiserPro »

kortilla wrote: post #221
nostrebored wrote: post #176

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> I don't know a single one who deliberately has said "there is a performance hit if they are remote, we should switch to in office to increase performance". Because you can’t. The decision to go remote is a one way door. > People have also have been enforcing 40 hour weeks and argue open offices are better for performance. Open offices are a management trend and hardly universal among successful companies. Whereas r…

> Whereas remote work is an extreme aberration from the norm. No it’s not, it’s just new to you so it seems scary. Companies have been dealing with this for decades with branch offices, contractors, etc.

> branch offices, contractors, etc.

Branch offices isnt remote, and contractors are mercenaries.

Look, I think there is not "one" answer to this. I personally can't think of anything worse than complete remote. Its isolating, difficult to understand the entire company and everything requires explicit communication. Some companies do this well, Most do not.

However I have worked with fully remote workers, and they love being remote. I don't know how we sensible accommodate both modes of working.

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Post by KaiserPro »

mulmen wrote: post #194
nostrebored wrote: post #179

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I have done B2B sales since the shift to remote work. The nature of the work actually highly lends itself to being in person. Even remote workers will be on some physical location the majority of the time. COVID changed this, and not for the better. It is much harder to do remote.

There's no reason for the sales staff to be in the same room as eachother. Plenty of B2B deals happen remotely, even pre-covid. I don't recall any customers coming on site at my last B2B company and there's no way sales had a travel budget. Remote workers are equally or better suited to occasional visits to customer locations anyway.

> there's no way sales had a travel budget.

All the places where we had B2B sales, we've had a travel budget. Ironically the sales "offices" were usually one person in a territory. But they were very much out wining and dining big customers.

We also had a telesales team, who were centrally based, and they totally could be remote workers.

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Post by nivenkos »

andrewingram wrote: post #116
andy_ppp wrote: post #19

Are there any startups attempting to sort out the tax situation when working from different places. It would involve a lot of figuring out with governments but as things stand I think being a digital nomad is going to be done semi illegally. I would definitely sign up and pay my fair share to the correct jurisdiction.

And not just for salaries, which can be handled with companies like Deel and Remote. For me equity is the bigger concern. If I join a UK startup, best case scenario is paying 10% tax on the upside of any exit windfalls. If I join any company outside the UK, that immediately jumps to ~55%.

Yeah, in Sweden it's about 60% (56% taxed as income, plus capital gains tax on the difference if the value goes up).

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Post by Cwizard »

BatteryMountain wrote: post #214
Cwizard wrote: post #208

I live in a smaller city in Europe where wages aren’t anywhere close to what you often see mentioned on HN, with the shift to remote, should I start considering a full-remote position? How do you find these positions? Any advice on this topic would be appreciated. (For context I have 2 YOE, mostly backend, kubernetes, aws and I currently earn around €50k a year which not a bad salary for my area)

But that 50K probably gets you healthcare, education and safe, clean functioning society? In other country you have to pay for this stuff separately since the governments/systems are dumb or corrupt. So I'd say the 50K is reasonable. Another thing to look at is the ratio of between how much you per month after all taxes and how much 2/3 bedroom houses cost.

That 50K is before taxes. My average tax rate is ~35% top marginal tax rate 50%. But yes that does give me essential free education including university, free healthcare, and good institutions.

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Post by mFixman »

anonporridge wrote: post #41
drstewart wrote: post #11

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.

The entire point of moving abroad is the possibility to immigrate permanently to a better country, not to have a working holiday in the Caribbean.

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Post by namelosw »

Meanwhile, I'm happy to see some startups trying to fix the "remote (US only)" stuff.

It could be a great business. On one hand, many great talents (including me) around the world are blocked from these opportunities (like those from India, Russia, China, etc). On the other hand, many companies would like to have great talents with lower cost, but most of them don't want to deal with the hassle.

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