Remote work saved workers 72 minutes per day in 2021 and 2022
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#2That could be the difference between being in shape or not. Or having written a book or not. Even just feeling tired or not.
I don’t understand how people can be against remote working.
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#3Just doing some quick math, for a relatively well paid dev at $120 per hour with 260 work-days in a year saving about an hour a day that equates to about ~$31k needed to justify going into the office on a purely pecuniary front.
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#4That could be the difference between being in shape or not. Or having written a book or not. Even just feeling tired or not. I don’t understand how people can be against remote working.
Lifters and leaners.
Those who do productive work like WFH, those who ride on coattails of others like in office.
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#5Just doing some quick math, for a relatively well paid dev at $120 per hour with 260 work-days in a year saving about an hour a day that equates to about ~$31k needed to justify going into the office on a purely pecuniary front.
Marginal cost of an hour increases with each hour, at increasing rates.
If the extra time spent is causing one to lose sleep/exercise/time with kids/hobby time, I could see it being worth quite a bit more than a standard work hour.
There is also morbidity and mortality risk of commuting and commuting costs to take into account. In a car, I would put that lower bound at $0.50 per minute.
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#6Every day I have to go into the office means wasting 4 hours driving to/from an office so that I can call into the same meetings I would be calling into if I hadn’t been forced to waste those 4 hours.
Return to the office is easily a 20% pay cut in terms of $/hour comp.
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#7> Workers also spend less time grooming and getting ready for work when they're remote.
Yes, dehumanize the workers more.
Re: Remote work saved workers 72 minutes per day in 2021 and 2022
#8Why have many companies become anti remote work?
I noticed increasing hostility towards remote workers in companies that have mixed working models.
Re: Remote work saved workers 72 minutes per day in 2021 and 2022
#9Just doing some quick math, for a relatively well paid dev at $120 per hour with 260 work-days in a year saving about an hour a day that equates to about ~$31k needed to justify going into the office on a purely pecuniary front.
((72*260)/60)/24 = 13
That is 13 full days of time per year. That is a vacation. Or a long training course to learn a new skill. An hour+ a day to hang out with your kid or friends or dog or laptop or car.
Re: Remote work saved workers 72 minutes per day in 2021 and 2022
#10Why have many companies become anti remote work? I noticed increasing hostility towards remote workers in companies that have mixed working models.
I’m a manager who works remote. The problem isn’t the senior engineers or even the engineers with 3+ years of experience. It’s the junior engineers. They struggle to ramp as quickly while remote. That being said, my strategy is to get more senior engineers rather than juniors as I don’t want to commute either.