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Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
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#482I’m guessing they still won’t hire anyone who doesn’t live nearby though.. just cuz. (Anyone know?)
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#483It's odd how HN does not reflect the reality I see. I'm at a big (Google/Microsoft/Amazon) workplace and WFH has always been a last-resort thing. I can't even imagine my team moving toward this. Every day I do too many things in the office that are face-to-face. Drop by the architect to get an opinion about XYZ, drop by a PM to ask about their functional spec, drop by a coworker to ask about some comments they left o…
If this transition does happen (and that is a big if) then I can see winners and losers. Some people that currently thrive in an office environment may well struggle and others that have been suffering could see themselves become more valuable.
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#484Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've had a related thought: is it ethical to pay a person less based purely on where they live? I understand that there are different cost of living factors for different places, but that's on the employee's side and should be none of the employer's business. If they employer can pay $200k/yr for a remote employee, it shouldn't matter where they live, and so scaling that value seems discriminatory to me. Anyone have…
> If they employer can pay $200k/yr for a remote employee It's interesting that folks envisioning a globally uniform payscale tend to posit SF salaries in Hanoi rather than Hanoi salaries in SF.
Fair point. I was just copying the parent post's number. Likely it would be somewhere in between, as you seem to suggest.
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#485The real advantage of remote working isn’t even making your employees happier. It’s that you can hire world class talent from anywhere in the world.
Will twitter be opening to hiring from other states and countries?
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#486It's odd how HN does not reflect the reality I see. I'm at a big (Google/Microsoft/Amazon) workplace and WFH has always been a last-resort thing. I can't even imagine my team moving toward this. Every day I do too many things in the office that are face-to-face. Drop by the architect to get an opinion about XYZ, drop by a PM to ask about their functional spec, drop by a coworker to ask about some comments they left o…
There is a point where frequent interruptions are counter-productive. The good middle ground between productivity and socialization that I found was to be heads down except for meetings and lunch. I get long stretches of focus time, and also get to joke around with colleagues.
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#487Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is also a difference between a company/management and your peers. There's no such thing as a corporate entity being your friend. Having a boss as your friend... maybe isn't impossible, but is definitely complicated. But it's entirely possible to develop real friendships with peers, even as a group. The differentiator is whether that narrative is pushed from above, or whether it's something that naturally develo…
I can count on one hand the number of actual friendships I formed with coworkers. I mean relationships that continue past the time where we literally shared an office. Most of the people I work with are highly ambitious and globally mobile. Our average tenure is something like a year. People who have been at the company for two years are veterans. Forming friendships in that situation is difficult because at this poi…
> Most of the people I work with are highly ambitious and globally mobile. Our average tenure is something like a year. People who have been at the company for two years are veterans.
That sounds like a highly irregular company. My last company, which wasn't very big (I realize that my anecdote is probably also outside of the norm, but I just wanted to illustrate how wide the range is.
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#488I think if you work with a brilliant group of coworkers that you love to hangout out with, then you are lucky and I can see how you miss being in the office. But, thats not the case for many of us. The crux of work relationships is that they are not voluntary. You might get lucky and have ones you love, or you might get some that are distracting, or at worse, you dislike. Either way though you are stuck with them. I…
I completely get the sentiment of this; you can't pick your coworkers, commuting is insanely time consuming and you can most likely do most of your work from home.
I've probably been brainwashed by "popular culture" and the "corporate narrative" that they prob wanna push on us. I'm in my early 30s and my hobby is to build things, I've always loved that, now mostly software, but also hardware electronics etc. My biggest dream is to have something like General Magic or early Apple or some other startup building something crazy with a small group of people that are brilliant and driven.
Again this is probably just because I've been brainwashed, but I really don't see that scenario playing out over a Zoom call for instance: a brainstorming session on a whiteboard where everyone is excited and trying to solve a huge challenge together, building on each others ideas etc; It's right now just not how our zoom calls usually plays out.
I'm all for anyone being able to work remotely, and picking talents from wherever they might be, but I just don't hope this is 100% of what the future will look like.
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#489Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wholeheartedly agree. > If you could eliminate the 1 hour of wasted time daily This is it. Without self-driving cars this is the most important present you can give to a worker. What would you pay for an additional hour a day?
$56 per minute saved https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/new-yorkers-will-pay-56...
$56 per month, not per minute
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#490Finally getting it.