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Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely

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Post by RedCondor »

returningfory2 wrote: post #322
ibejoeb wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If companies start buying upside-down homes, they're probably going to start holding them until they can at least wash out. I'd hate to see a trend of employers becoming landlords.

In general, I think people need to think more critically about this "1 job for life" culture of the past. A lot of the supposed benefits of this former corporate culture (like a company-linked pension, or a system where your employer buys you home) just mean that companies exercise even more power over our lives and the economy.

This is a bit like saying that women in a patriarchy should prefer prostitution over marriage, because having many interchangeable abusive masters is better than having just one.

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Post by fiznool »

mattbgates wrote: post #114

I refuse to ever go back into an office again with my current job. A new job may convince me, but to be honest, I work better when I'm working from home. I'll just say that when you pay for a mortgage, and then you go somewhere for 8 or 9 hours a day, you're wasting your money. When you work from home, you're getting to experience the mortgage you're paying for and every dollar you spend matters. It changes your pers…

> I even had a boss that almost fired me for putting Lorem Ipsum in the content before it was sent to the client

Next time use ChatGPT.

Re: Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely

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Post by mikhael28 »

ibejoeb wrote: post #283
mistrial9 wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"A lot of the lay-offs were senior technical staff like C++ senior engineers; seems more like a realignment to shift those jobs to cheaper subsidiaries like India, Pakistan, Mexico"

What's the source of that quote? The article says exactly the opposite and makes no mention of offshoring.

Maybe its a disinformation bot, trying to rile up older men (senior C++ engineers) with nativist sentiment (how dare they relocate my job to Pakistan?).

Seems reasonable to me, especially given the blatantly false statement.

Re: Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely

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Post by helij »

roel_v wrote: post #145
dustedcodes wrote: post #81

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I disagree. I work from home as a new dad of a nearly 8 month old girl now. The first 3 months I took off work to be a full time dad, but since then I've returned back to a 4 day work week and when I work Monday to Thursday I am not distracted by my baby girl at all. I have a separate room as an office, if the door is closed then it means no interruptions. My wife is still on maternity leave so she is free to do the…

No offense mate but if your only experience so far is having an 8 month old, you don't get to have an opinion on this topic yet.

My experience is pretty similar to his and our daughter is now 6yr old.

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Post by Gordonjcp »

johnbellone wrote: post #156
t43562 wrote: post #116

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You often cannot do anything on the commute because you have walk, train, walk, bus, walk and no period is long enough to get anything useful done.

I average about 20-25 audiobooks a year. Commute time was some prime listening.

I've got the John le Carré George Smiley Collection on at the moment. Blasting through snowy countryside on a beautiful sunny day listening to tales of Cold War spies? Cannot be beat.

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Post by mgaunard »

rychco wrote: post #320
mgaunard wrote: post #270

Working from home is a sham. It doesn't work. It's just a way to enable lazy people to keep on coasting. If you're dedicated to the job and want to be a team player, go to the office.

In what way does it not work, when perhaps my position only requires that I attend virtual meetings, push code to a remote repository/depot, & edit online documents? What does my presence in the office, offer in value to the business? What does my presence in the office, offer in value to ME?

Your position requires that you dedicate your time to improving or promoting the company's products.

Virtual meetings and collaboration platforms are but tools to achieve that. An event better tool is working next to your colleagues to enable more synergy between the various initiatives people are working on organically.

As someone dedicated to your company's mission, you should want to use the best tool for the job.

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Post by sizzle »

chatmasta wrote: post #238
SCdF wrote: post #166

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Yep. So I've been working for about fifteen years, had it from the start, but it just keep on getting worse. So now have migrated to a no keyboard solution, and am working on a no mouse solution. My setup, software: - talon ( https://talonvoice.com/ ), basing my configuration on the standard repo ( https://github.com/knausj85/knausj_talon/ ), with some minor modifications. This is how I navigate my whole computer, an…

Got any tips for a 30 year old who wants to prevent needing all this in the future? Wrist strength is something I never think about, but I'm sure it could sneak up on me one day.

Logitech MS Ergo mouse was a game changer, move my thumb instead of wrist

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Post by mattbgates »

throwwwaway69 wrote: post #358
mattbgates wrote: post #114

I refuse to ever go back into an office again with my current job. A new job may convince me, but to be honest, I work better when I'm working from home. I'll just say that when you pay for a mortgage, and then you go somewhere for 8 or 9 hours a day, you're wasting your money. When you work from home, you're getting to experience the mortgage you're paying for and every dollar you spend matters. It changes your pers…

Re: Lorem Your project manager sounds dumb, but Lorem Ipsum is a bad idea for development in general. It just confuses people, including clients, as you saw and wrote. Apps in staging should be seeded with real-looking information and text, and there are plenty of seeding libraries out there that do this. If you need to generate paragraphs of text, there is non-lorem text seeders that create real English paragraphs.

I tried putting "English gibberish" in there, from cupcake ipsum (https://cupcakeipsum.com/) to bacon ipsum (https://baconipsum.com/) and was told to stop. We can't put regular English text in the content because they send us the actual content they want in English and there can be up to 5 to 10 sets eyes of project managers on the same project, who might get confused as to whether this is the actual text or not. I suppose we could've put "THIS TEXT IS PLACEHOLDER" but unless required, Lorem Ipsum is standard procedure text.

>Lorem Ipsum is a piece of text, used by designers to fill a space where the content will eventually sit. It helps show how text will look once a piece of content is finished, during the planning phase. Filler text has been widely used for centuries, so most people are familiar with seeing Lorem Ipsum on a mock design.

https://www.solopress.com/blog/copywriting-typography/what-i....

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Post by cmh89 »

bcrosby95 wrote: post #309
SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #271

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This only works if they put the office in the quieter back-road section near you. Otherwise you're driving all the way across town. The last company I was with I talked with the owner and he was clear why they chose downtown - yes, it sucked, but it sucked pretty equally for everyone. Downtown is also the place with the most transit going to it - you're excluding anyone who doesn't/can't drive if you choose to build…

It depends on the downtown. Where I live there's almost no transit to downtown and because of traffic, a 20 minute commute turns into an hour. If instead you have a few smaller offices in the burbs outside of downtown, you could save a lot of time for workers as they would be traveling counter-commute.

>If instead you have a few smaller offices in the burbs outside of downtown, you could save a lot of time for workers as they would be traveling counter-commute.

This only applies to some people living in some areas. If you locate in the east side suburbs, people who live in the westside suburbs are going to have a helacious commute.

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Post by suprjami »

bradleyjg wrote: post #233

I think the debate here has grown pretty stale. There’s a lot of arguing about what’s right or wrong, when this isn’t really about right or wrong. There’s a factual question here about whether remote first companies are more, less, or equally competitive with office first companies. Anecdotes aren’t going to answer that question. Logical arguments aren’t going to answer that question. Passionate rants about pointy ha…

> Anecdotes aren’t going to answer that question

If only a tech recruitment company would publish biannual findings from their factual observations of the whole industry, they'd have a strong evidence-based vantage point which none of us individual tech workers have. They could use a catchy name like "Hired dot com" and people would write news articles about their findings.

Oh well.

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