The number one thing protecting your job is the office.
It took a recession in tech for people to finally realize that writing for-loops while working on a ranch in Idaho for $200k/year isn't sustainable. Your company is going to realize sooner or later that they can hire the top 0.1% in most countries for $65k/year to write those for-loops. And these people come without any entitlement or attitudes that usually accompany SV tech workers.
WFH is not your friend. It might seem like it is right now but it's not. Demand a return to office if you want to maintain your standard of living in the long run.
Not to mention if I were running a company and have to do a layoff, the first group of people I'd let go are the permanent WFH people.
WFH people discovered they have a life. Instead of sitting here arguing about why an archaic work setup is bad for you they are out and about.
(x): On the other hand, that is also what is usually driving crazy things like the Mexican wall, to name it symbolically.. so I can at least comprehend partly.
Previously, any outsourcing work would create hybrid environment which is the worst choice between fully remote and fully in person.
This seems like a blinkered and selfish perspective.
If the number one thing protecting your job is the office, then quite frankly that job probably shouldn't exist.
Restricting the (relative) access to opportunities and resources to a select group of people by means of artificial barriers has never worked in the long run, and fortunately so. Otherwise, most people would still be living in abject poverty with only a tiny aristocratic class having agency and control over their lives and standard of living.
I find it particularly baffling that while people would usually claim to be all for social justice and a more equitable distribution of resources, the second their own privileged position is at risk, those ideas go out of the window.
Flattening out global entry wages like this will be great for the holders of corporate equity capital but would probably even rugpull U.S. real estate prices.
Good, it's been increasing at an out of control pace for a long time, but especially since the pandemic.
I'm saying this as a homeowner myself, whose home went up in 'value' almost 50% since I bought it five years ago (it really hasn't, if anything it should have gone down a bit from wear and tear, it desperately needs a new roof, deck, fence, and some gnawed up corners of walls and trim patched up from puppies when they went through teething).
Numbers please.. you mean only now due to the WFH move upper management realised they don't need to watch butts in chairs and can hire anyone from all over the world and look at that economic advantage, though that had been always possible before, and was even often attempted with varying success, but now no concerns anymore? Doubts..
I don't think the number can be so high where it is all of it.
I think it's just economic uncertainty. People won't hire unless they NEED to, and often the company CAN get by without that extra dev.
I have lowered my salary expectations, and am doing quite well while consulting now.