Shift to Remote Work Based on 7k HN Who Is Hiring Posts

I&#x27;m all for this, I might even be able to move to a cheaper country and do the full digital nomad thing. I sort of want to find a way to save a minimum of $100,000 per year in order to retire within the next 10 years.<p>I definitely could see the government creating incentives to get people back to work. The big issue of people no longer commuting, is millions of people working auxiliary industries which are getting screwed right now. The guy who works at the cafe next to your office, the landlords who own buildings, even car mechanics.<p>I suspect by the end of 2021, we&#x27;ll see more 50% work from home, particularly for new engineers.

The best thing we did was bite the bullet and stop hiring remote folks using some CoL metric invented by HR.<p>The pool and quality of candidates we interviewed pretty much went up overnight and we started getting a lot of quality internal referral.

During a pandemic, the only roles that you can hire for are ones that are remote (by definition, more or less). So this is not really charting a &quot;shift&quot;. The question is, post-pandemic, will <i>new</i> roles continue to be permanent remote or will they gravitate back towards office roles?<p>As someone who has posted many remote Who is Hiring posts, I know that they&#x27;ve had little bearing on our company&#x27;s decision process to move new roles back in-person or stay remote.

Remote has been an option for many people in tech, even before the covid situation. Most people regularly took work from home days or had regularly scheduled work from home days, at least once or twice a week. Some people spent months in remote situations, working from second homes during ski season or vacation spots.<p>But, there was a belief amongst all management that they had to have a central place for everyone to gather and do business.<p>Now, Covid forced the remote issue on many companies. Many companies are crunching numbers on remote work productivity and leasing expensive square footage in expensive cities.<p>Some decided remote is costing too much in productivity and requiring people to come into the office. Others are finding out that productivity drop is much smaller than expected and office space cost savings are fully justified in going full remote.<p>This will take at least couple of years to fully shake out and see what the remote situation looks like in the future. One interesting side effect of companies going fully remote is that office space costs will likely drop and change the calculations again, convincing many companies to gradually bring people back to central office.

HN who’s hiring represents the most progressive companies. The numbers are deceiving. Though the shape of the chart is likely correct

This is really nice. I&#x27;ve been hand-curating Remote jobs from Hackernews for a while. It&#x27;s carefully curated by hard and tagged properly, everything listed on the page is 100% remote jobs. I was also planned on writing a report to see how remote jobs % is increased over the period of time and what tech trend is growing. But not finding time. This is an interesting report. If would like the data, I&#x27;m happy to share the last 12 months of data. Feel free to ping me on Twitter(@abinaya_rl)

Let&#x27;s still remember that &quot;Who Is Hiring&quot; posts are a very small fraction of jobs in the world and the vast majority of jobs in the world cannot possibly be remote.<p>I know this may sound obvious but let&#x27;s also be mindful of that fact when we go around saying that everything has gone remote. For most people it hasn&#x27;t.<p>That said though -- very cool analysis. I love seeing analysis from huge amounts of social media data like this.

From looking at various HN comments working from home is appealing due to only one factor: personality. It appears economics, commute, child care issues, martial status, and other personal indicators are largely irrelevant. People that can handle being away from social interactions appear to love working from home while people who need social interaction do not regardless of whether all other personal indicators are stressors.

A related ongoing thread that was pretty good earlier: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25945397" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25945397</a>

This would seem to be a lagging indicator, not a predictor.

Very interesting take.<p>Would be cool (and likely even more dramatic) to see the chart going back 10(?) years.

Are the FAANG companies hiring for remote positions though? I&#x27;ve been told they are remote currently, but as soon as they say it is &quot;safe&quot; then you have to show up to the office.

HN who’s hiring represents the most progressive companies. The numbers are deceiving. Though the shape of the chart is still correct