I have been remote since Covid. I tell headhunters and others I am only interested in 100% remote roles.
Going into the office is unnecessary and all downside to me. I eats my time. It makes me spend a LOT more. The work environment with all the office noise is far worse than my arrangement at home. What would I do with my new puppy? I can’t put him in doggy daycare. He’s not fully immunized yet and he can’t go to doggy daycare because he’s not fixed....which I don’t want to do until he’s a year old and is done developing (Studies have shown the lower hormone levels following getting fixed leads to development problems in a puppy’s joints far more frequently).
Besides.....I’ll often be on a team with members of that team scattered all over the country. Who the hell cares if we’re staring at each other through a computer screen and talking in the office or at home? It makes no difference.
Fortunately thanks to hiring all those H1bs for years, the banks are sorely lacking qualified Americans with the amount of experience I have. So its accept my terms....or one of your competitors will. I love the free market.
My breeder told me not to have my pup fixed until she was two years old, or to wait until after her second heat.