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Brian Chesky: Ability to hire from anywhere is more valuable than in-office work

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Re: Brian Chesky: Ability to hire from anywhere is more valuable than in-office work

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Post by mkl »

yarg wrote: post #29
ElFitz wrote: post #24

Perhaps he should put his money where his mouth is: https://careers.airbnb.com/positions/ Because "US, except these states" isn’t exactly hiring "from anywhere".

Time zones and expected levels of education are still significant factors. You generally don't want to be hiring people from regions with a substandard education system - and if they're in another time zone they can spend all night ruining your day before you even start work.

It's the employee's education (& skill, experience, etc.) that matters, not the region's.

Re: Brian Chesky: Ability to hire from anywhere is more valuable than in-office work

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Post by zamadatix »

ElFitz wrote: post #24

Perhaps he should put his money where his mouth is: https://careers.airbnb.com/positions/ Because "US, except these states" isn’t exactly hiring "from anywhere".

There is a reasonable difference between anywhere and everywhere. Setting up shop in every state can be a big legal pain, especially if you don't expect many employees there or the particular state has more difficult rules to comply with. Doing so is in no way a requirement for what they are talking about, which is not hiring for having people come in to the office.

On the flipside I've been able to convince companies to add a state before. I imagine it gets more difficult the larger the company is though, otherwise someone would have already added your state by that point.

Re: Brian Chesky: Ability to hire from anywhere is more valuable than in-office work

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Post by prmoustache »

FeistySkink wrote: post #26
voytec wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not my experience in over a decade but I'm looking strictly for remote and don't bother with hybrid/onsite.

Mind sharing how you approach this?

Just responding only to open positions mentionning remote work or stating that you want remote only to the thousands of head hunters in linkedin is enough.

Re: Brian Chesky: Ability to hire from anywhere is more valuable than in-office work

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Post by voytec »

FeistySkink wrote: post #26
voytec wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not my experience in over a decade but I'm looking strictly for remote and don't bother with hybrid/onsite.

Mind sharing how you approach this?

Currently I'm happy with what I found on HN's Who's Hiring [1] post.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

Re: Brian Chesky: Ability to hire from anywhere is more valuable than in-office work

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Post by cowsandmilk »

shakow wrote: post #16
basisword wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> it reduces ones carbon footprint Is this proven (it probably can't be proven given the huge variety of commutes, office spaces, heating sources etc.)? It would be my default assumption but I feel like heating one office with 100 people in it is much more efficient than heating 100 homes in winter. And if people are in a location where publish transport is the norm then it might be better in terms of carbon impact…

But people will be heating their home in winter in any case, whether they're remote or on-site.

When I’m on-site, my house is set to a significantly lower temperature during the day. Scheduled thermostats have been around long enough that I assume that’s the norm.

Re: Brian Chesky: Ability to hire from anywhere is more valuable than in-office work

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Post by shakow »

cowsandmilk wrote: post #35
shakow wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But people will be heating their home in winter in any case, whether they're remote or on-site.

When I’m on-site, my house is set to a significantly lower temperature during the day. Scheduled thermostats have been around long enough that I assume that’s the norm.

But then you need a surge in power to put it back from lo_temp to hi_temp when you get back home, I honestly don't know if it costs more or less than just maintaining it at hi_temp, and what are the orders of magnitude involved.

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Post by viraptor »

yarg wrote: post #29
ElFitz wrote: post #24

Perhaps he should put his money where his mouth is: https://careers.airbnb.com/positions/ Because "US, except these states" isn’t exactly hiring "from anywhere".

Time zones and expected levels of education are still significant factors. You generally don't want to be hiring people from regions with a substandard education system - and if they're in another time zone they can spend all night ruining your day before you even start work.

> they can spend all night ruining your day before you even start work.

Or they can be saving your service in emergency while you stay in bed. I'm not sure why you'd expect a different time zone to mean lower skills than yours.

Re: Brian Chesky: Ability to hire from anywhere is more valuable than in-office work

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Post by sokoloff »

ElFitz wrote: post #24

Perhaps he should put his money where his mouth is: https://careers.airbnb.com/positions/ Because "US, except these states" isn’t exactly hiring "from anywhere".

> Airbnb, Inc. can hire employees in states where we have registered entities. Currently, employees cannot be located/live in: Alaska, Nebraska, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, and Delaware.

It seems entirely reasonable to create state entities in a late-binding fashion, only after you find an employee or other reason requiring the creation of an entity and all the recurring paperwork/expense associated. (I am sightly surprised to see Delaware on the list given that I'm pretty sure they're originally registered as a Delaware corp.)

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