Post-covid economics: The great resignation, remote work, & musical chairs

[garbon]

I'm going to my office for the first time tomorrow. Almost managed a full year of a new job without seeing the office.

[The Brain]

Are you going to the British or the American?

[garbon]

Are you going to the British or the American?

[Eddie Teach]

You didn't keep an office in New York? 

[garbon]

I'm lost.

[The Brain]

I've only seen the British one anyway.

[Berkut]

I manage about a dozen developers.

We are never going back to the office, and I don't even make the attempt to hire locally anymore.

And that includes new hires straight out of college.

[Threviel]

I see that as an opportunity. I don't want to work in the big cities because of the commute and so my pay suffers. When everything settles after Covid I see myself getting a job in the big cities and working from home, hopefully with a much higher wage.

I'm an embedded developer though, so I need quite an advanced and big workplace at home, not just a desk and a display. Lots of measurement equipment and lots of different hardware so it'll be interesting to see how everything develops for us hardware near developers with working from home.

[DGuller]

I'm lost.

Maybe WFH is more suited for you.  Have you tried asking for directions?

[garbon]

I'm lost.

Maybe WFH is more suited for you.  Have you tried asking for directions?

[viper37]

I manage about a dozen developers.

We are never going back to the office, and I don't even make the attempt to hire locally anymore.

And that includes new hires straight out of college.

I still know of a good accountant/financial analyst willing to work remotely...


Do you still find enough talent in the US, or do you need to recruit from foreign countries too?

[Berkut]

I manage about a dozen developers.

We are never going back to the office, and I don't even make the attempt to hire locally anymore.

And that includes new hires straight out of college.

I still know of a good accountant/financial analyst willing to work remotely...


Do you still find enough talent in the US, or do you need to recruit from foreign countries too?

No, we pretty much stick to the US. I don't even want to contemplate the hassle of trying to figure out international labor laws....

[crazy canuck]

I manage about a dozen developers.

We are never going back to the office, and I don't even make the attempt to hire locally anymore.

And that includes new hires straight out of college.

I still know of a good accountant/financial analyst willing to work remotely...


Do you still find enough talent in the US, or do you need to recruit from foreign countries too?

No, we pretty much stick to the US. I don't even want to contemplate the hassle of trying to figure out international labor laws....

Wise move, the number of employers who are shocked to learn they need to comply with the laws in which their remote working employee resides is fairly high.

[Valmy]

Having to comply with laws? What happened to liberty?

[crazy canuck]

Having to comply with laws? What happened to liberty?

That is more or less what some American clients say when they get the bad news.