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Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office? by 0xB31B1B on Sunday February 05, 2023 @02:52PM (#34668481)
Peer group: CEOs, VP eng, CTO, directors at seed-series B companies where leadership team is Bay Area based. I think you’re seeing this wrong. Every other locale is a discount to SFBA/NYC. Many companies can and should pay top of market in cheaper locales. That is the winning remote playbook. Maybe the locale is Canada, maybe the locale is Argentina, maybe it’s Portugal. Pick your choice, they’re all 1/2 cost or less of SFBA/NYC, and if you’re all remote locale doesn’t really matter.
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Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office? by peyton on Sunday February 05, 2023 @03:23PM (#34668896)
Yep, people are starting to look elsewhere.
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Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office? by quickthrower2 on Sunday February 05, 2023 @09:25PM (#34672496)
They always have been.
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Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office? by onethought on Sunday February 05, 2023 @03:48PM (#34669174)
I agree with this. The natural conclusion of “I want to work remote” is the equalisation of global wages. This is great for developing countries with highly skilled English speaking people and terrible for entitled software developers earning 2-10x their remote counterparts.
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