Remote startups will win the war for top talent
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#2Remote startups may win the war for top talent (in the short term) but who will win on productivity and by extension revenue? I guess we will all see that in the next 24 months.
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#3I sure hope so. I’ve been wait 15 years for this kind of change.
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#4Remote startups with what cheap money? That era is coming to an end. They won't win anything, with cheap or expensive labor.
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#5will they win the war though?
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#6I always think this is a funny argument because most companies don't need top talent.
For nearly every business, good enough is definitely good enough.
So the question to me is for average to slightly above average employees, will remote companies "win"?
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#7When workers say 'hybrid' they really mean 100% remote? what aspect of this definition is a hybrid of working from the office?
The problem? When workers say hybrid, they typically mean they want the flexibility to choose where they work from and when, all the time. (In a sign of how jarring this concept is to ingrained expectations, Gartner refers to this as “radical flexibility.”) On average, that will be three days a week from home, two from somewhere else.Re: Remote startups will win the war for top talent
#8Remote startups with what cheap money? That era is coming to an end. They won't win anything, with cheap or expensive labor.
Right? Startup wages are pathetic for top talent, there would need to be a fundamental shift in the industry to afford them.
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#9Hmmm.. Only top talent wishes to work remotely while the plebes want to drive into work each day and socialize instead of doing the heavy lifting. Going to work each day obviously makes such lack luster behavior easier to get away with.
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#10It’s possible that some companies will pay significantly more to keep all of their employees in office all of the time. But they’ll be paying 2-3 times: higher TCO, more expensive real-estate, and more scope for the (fortunately few) “I’m have people skills damnit” careerist middle managers without technical chops (higher payroll and worse mechanism design).
The A16Z model sounds about right to me: flex work with low real-estate burden, spend some of the savings on frequent, family friendly off sites.
I know this is controversial, just like, my opinion man.