Still rush hour ain't as bad as it used to be...
A 40% wage increase wouldn’t be enough for me to move back to the Bay Area.
Many other high tech workers are saying the same thing.
In person in that sewer?
Were we born too soon?
Lots of government socialist cash heading out, not much in the way of actual work being done, people acting retired in their early thirties.
What did we all work for all these years?
So, the bay area workers have a 40% reduced chance of getting that smelly Pelosistuff on their shoes, getting mugged, or haveing their car robbed. Good for them.
This seems to be the minimum days per week in the office for tech companies that will take hold post pandemic.
Another change is the hiring of entirely remote workers. Pre pandemic, would not have even been considered. Now, with Teams,Zoom, etc., it can work.
I sure wish that I could get back the thousands of hours and tens of thousands of dollars worth of gas and cars I went through in my career!
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Since I’m a consultant I keep my ear to the ground about the market. I just talked to another headhunter today. We both agreed that for the financial services industry at least, we are never going back to the way it was before the pandemic.
He is based in the bay area and previously used to look for talent in that area. Now that everything is remote he is looking nationwide and said he was just amazed at how much more/better the talent he could get is than what he was previously getting. I told him neither I nor any of my colleagues ever wants to go back to the office. Companies that offer 100% remote get first pick of the people they want. Ones which don’t get the bottom of the barrel....and those folks look for the first opportunity to get out.
Once managers come to accept that they are not going to be able to walk down the row of cubes and stand over people’s shoulders anymore, companies will be delighted to get rid of a lot of expensive office space.
Hahaha!
There isn’t going to be any stinking “post-pandemic” for all you useless eaters.
I start my 1/3 days today, it is kinda good to see some old friends ..