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Re:A WFH 'culture war' has broken out across Europe by thefz on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @01:36PM (#40858799)
As an introvert I have, like any other introvert, been forced to work the extrovert way because that was the norm. Now the wind has changed and you hear extroverts crying that they can't work without the social connection and they miss the cooler chat.

Good. We have been forced to do things your way until now. Now times have changed. You do things our way. Take your ten minute talk about kid soccer elsewhere and let me work.

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Re:A WFH 'culture war' has broken out across Europe by alephnerd on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @04:25PM (#40860114)
In CEE (which is where most ICT FDI is going) it's your governments that force employers to spend $500k-$5 million on an office with at least 10-50 people in order to get tax benefits ($8,000-13,000 per employee).

Otherwise, we'd just be remote first and spend that amount of money on hiring.

But then again, we might get a better offer hiring Israelis or Indians (5-10 year tax holidays depending on the region)

It's local government that makes these incentives at the end of the day.

Anyhow, we only hire Israeli, Indian, Czech, Romanian, Pole, etc engineers because of the right mix of talent and salary arbitrage compared to American talent.

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