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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 jokethrowaway »

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…

Wherever you may be hospitalised people are surely a tiny minority People may not be in the office because of the isolation policies after getting in touch with someone with the flu, which is common, as usual

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Post by Salgat »

xtracto wrote: post #181
Salgat wrote: post #172

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It's so much easier to just hire someone in the same country. No visa/sponsorship, no timezone worries, no language/culture barriers. It's just so much easier.

I work (from Mexico) with people in the US, which has 4 time zones for mainland. My time zone lands in CT, Which is convenient both for ET and PT. I didn't require a sponsorship and I am able to communicate pretty well with my American peers. And I'm between 50% and 70% cheaper than hiring someone in the US at the same level (PhD, 10+ years of industry experience, Executive level experience, startup experience, highl…

Outsourcing has been attempted and is still occurring for the past 30 years. Yes, sometimes you get great employees like yourself, but it's a mixed bag and for some companies they just don't want to deal with the additional risks and headache.

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Post by missedthecue »

culturestate wrote: post #254
missedthecue wrote: post #205

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I actually work in customer service for a tech company right now. We do some days in the office and most days remote. Being remote is worse for productivity. For instance, when I need to ask a team mate a question, they respond in slack at their convenience. At the office it takes 20 seconds. Communication and collaboration seem orders of magnitude more difficult remotely. Yes, client services can be done remotely. Y…

> For instance, when I need to ask a team mate a question, they respond in slack at their convenience. At the office it takes 20 seconds. This seems like something that can be pretty easily solved with a process change, no?

You can ask people "please respond to your slack messages faster", but that doesn't really work.

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Post by mbesto »

rkk3 wrote: post #267
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…

>> 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. That's pretty hand wave-y. If there is money in it companies will do it. It wouldn't be much different than moving an office or factory.

> That's pretty hand wave-y. If there is money in it companies will do it.

Right. And if there was concrete evidence that this was the case then investors (especially controlling interest ones that I work with) would DEFINITELY being doing it.

Follow the money...

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Post by culturestate »

missedthecue wrote: post #313
culturestate wrote: post #254

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> For instance, when I need to ask a team mate a question, they respond in slack at their convenience. At the office it takes 20 seconds. This seems like something that can be pretty easily solved with a process change, no?

You can ask people "please respond to your slack messages faster", but that doesn't really work.

I mean, why couldn’t you have some version of pager duty for people who are (apparently) on the clock and in the critical path of support calls?

Remember years ago MSN Messenger had that buzz feature that would let you shake the conversation window for your contact? You could recreate something similar by eg force-enabling Slack alerts for specific keywords.

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Post by mkl »

MattGaiser wrote: post #66
mint2 wrote: post #57

It’s interesting how divergent opinions on attending in person is for work vs school. At this point though the ship has sailed for the work debate. Going into the office to do zoom calls with people at home means the pros of office are mostly removed, while the cons remain.

Nobody seems really willing to tackle improving remote learning. It would be as if companies worked remotely by putting everyone on Zoom calls all day. Education in general refuses to move beyond the damn lecture.

You're dead wrong there. Many universities are, and I and my colleagues have been working our butts off moving beyond lectures. Beside recent changes, some universities have been offering fully remote lectureless degrees for decades.

The thing is, it's an enormous amount of work to do well, so no university can just switch everything instantly.

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Post by sysadmindotfail »

legerdemain wrote: post #187
indymike wrote: post #149

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> The tradeoff you’re hoping to make is that the increase in talent pool outweighs the decrease in productivity. No, the trade-off is being able to hire the best people possible instead of the best people who will work in the office. Honestly, the office has been dying since 4G and high speed internet got everywhere. Offices should be optional - there if you need it, there for meetings, team work sessions and present…

Meanwhile in Palo Alto, I was spending hours every workday trying to get a Terraform apply to complete without crashing out thanks to my apartment's crappy, crappy internet connection. Hell yeah, remote work!

I did terraform apply from some rather remote places in 2021...I'd highly recommend leaving your apartment for some better locales.

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Post by askonomm »

learc83 wrote: post #280
askonomm wrote: post #70

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Yup, remote worker not employee. That being said, I'm officially a contractor, but I always work for just one client at a time and usually for many years, from Monday to Friday, just like one would with a regular job, except of course remotely. With my current client I even get paid vacations, while still technically being a contractor.

That’s exactly what I’m talking about. You are essentially a full time employee in all but name. Here’s one of the tests. Notice vacation is explicitly called out. > Are there written contracts or employee type benefits (i.e. pension plan, insurance, vacation). Will the relationship continue and is the work performed a key aspect of the business? Your employer is clearly treating you like an employee while paying you…

I wonder how would one enforce this. I invoice once per month for the hours I logged (that might include vacation hours), but the invoice itself says "Software Development Services {month} {year}". Or do you mean we wouldn't be able to have vacation as part of the contract? Or not allow a contractor to work for one client for more than X time per year? Seems pretty tricky.

And how or who would enforce this for me, who is an Estonian citizen, Argentinian resident, and operates from under a USA based LLC as a non-resident USA company owner, working mostly for European start-ups? Which country would do the enforcing in this case?

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Post by scsilver »

rowanajmarshall wrote: post #263
999900000999 wrote: post #107

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Why ? 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 cou…

> I have an odd feeling many people like in person work so they can socialize. We have bars and concerts for that. The splitting of society like this is awful for humans, we really aren't built for it. There are ways of addressing this and still keeping remote work, but removing socialisation for 8 hours a day is not it.

Coffee shops, health clubs, parks….. would like to see the daytime opportunities for socialization and entertainment to rise.

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Post by legerdemain »

sysadmindotfail wrote: post #317
legerdemain wrote: post #187

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Meanwhile in Palo Alto, I was spending hours every workday trying to get a Terraform apply to complete without crashing out thanks to my apartment's crappy, crappy internet connection. Hell yeah, remote work!

I did terraform apply from some rather remote places in 2021...I'd highly recommend leaving your apartment for some better locales.

The only thing I was able to find at the time was working from my car in the Starbucks parking lot. I have since left the Terraform job.
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