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- As a 30-something single guy, it does wonders for my social circle. From my experience, working in tech makes it very difficult to meet the kind of women I'm interested in. It tends to be a male-dominated nerdy/geeky kind of culture which has its charms, but as far as a romantic partner is concerned, I'm looking for other qualities. I frequent a coffee shop in Santa Monica and have become friends with literally dozens of people over the past year-and-a-half.
- My schedule is my own. I generally work a pretty standard 9-5 schedule (when I'm active on Slack/GitHub/JIRA), but sometimes I wake up earlier and want to get a head start. Sometimes, I might write code later at night. Apart from a few meetings, having control over my schedule is amazing.
- No driving! I know this isn't a big deal for most people, but in LA driving is hell on earth.
- Traveling is awesome. I plan on doing a lot more in 2020, but even this year, I spent a month with my extended family on the east coast (spending time with octogenarian grandparents is quite a blessing), and a few weeks here and there hanging out with friends in Pittsburgh, NYC, SF, etc.
- At heart, I'm a startup guy. I'm constantly working on new projects, refining old ones, taking meetings with potential co-founders, etc. Remote work offers me the opportunity to explore my startup dreams while still being able to live a fairly comfortable life.
- Time is our most valuable resource. And at the end of the day, you get more time. Whether you spend it at the gym, with your kids, or traveling, it's up to you!
Hope more and more companies start treating their employees like adults, but I, for one, will never go back to a cubicle.
That's interesting as I've often heard the opposite view: you'd be quickly isolated socially if you don't have a circle of non-work friends. Great that it works out for you!
I'd like to be able to submit our company, canny.io, to the list. We're fully remote and hiring (senior engineers).
Also, looks like they need to work on more scalable infra so their site doesn't go down! HN hug of death :)
Completely understandable.
Personally I think that you should be paid the same wherever you live. Why should someone make more money because they choose to live in SF versus a farm somewhere.
Cost of living is funny. Whose cost? What if I want to live like a king in a big house?
For most people, that's an important metric. Personally I would only relocate to SF (or anywhere else) if the salary difference is big enough for me so that if you factor out the higher cost of living, I'd make more money than the cheaper places. There is nothing in SF that attracts me that bad that I'd pay the premium for. I think it's a reasonable demand.
Even if you disagree that my demand is reasonable, many people hold this view that they want to be paid more in a more expensive place. You asked whose cost of living is important here. It's the cost for the style of living that typical market participants want, not the style of living that you in particular want.
Ultimately, the prices are determined by the market, by the supply and demand curves. If the "people wanting a remote job vs remote offers" ratio looks different than the "people wanting a non-remote job vs non-remote offers" then there will be a difference in salary.
To give an example, lots of programmers want to work in the gamedev industry. Due to this, their salaries are lower and their working conditions worse compared to programmer positions elsewhere. Simply because they are okay to put up with it as they still like building games more than something else.
That being said, there are obviously imperfections in the market. All parties involved are humans instead of perfect market participants. But the rule is still highly relevant.
Anyway, living in a city doesn't appeal to me, so companies that don't incentivize living in a city do appeal to me.
If you're looking for a remote job, you don't want to have to filter through a bunch of onsite jobs. This site does that for you.
> Why is remote working a good thing?
There are many benefits to working remotely.
- It saves you time and money because you don't have to commute.
- It generally gives you a more flexible schedule, which lets you spend more time doing things you love (hobbies, family, etc).
It's definitely not for everyone - you have to be self-driven otherwise you might have productivity issues. It also means you have to seek out your own community because you won't have as much social interaction with your co-workers.
Once you have that, adding people that are fully remote becomes almost trivial, since you are already accounting for most cases where people aren't always in a single space.
Remote working is a good thing for many reasons. No time spent commuting. Possibility to live anywhere you fancy. And for companies, it gives them access to an enormous pool of candidates.
100% remote (meaning all employees are remote) is important because it eliminates drive-bys and the water cooler. If only some are remote, those people will miss out on face time and conversations that were held in meatspace. Those people, regardless of their qualifications, drive, and contributions, will be held back relative to their in-person peers.
I'm way more productive because I'm actually working and not BS-ing with my neighbor in the next cube/desk. This in turn brings down the noise level and reduces interruptions to "flow". For some reason, people will walk up and ask stupidly trivial questions on a regular basis in person, but when in a remote environment they are more reluctant to ask questions over communication mediums. I'm not sure why that is. Concentration++;
I don't waste any time in traffic. I've put about 3,000 miles on my car all year (excluding long travel vacations). I used to average 15,000 miles! One could say this significantly reduces my carbon footprint :)
Not having to waste time commuting to work, commuting to an appointment (e.g. doctor) near my home, commuting back to work then commuting back to my house.
It saves me a ton of money. No fuel expenses, less maintenance expenses on my vehicle, and I don't have to get a babysitter for no-school days.
I dodge the typical office bureaucracy and badmouthing of colleagues.
If I have to attend a useless meeting, I can tune it out and still get work done while they chatter about. In the office I couldn't do that because it would appear "rude" or even some meetings had a no laptop policy.
EDIT: oh another bonus... because i'm not sitting in traffic for 2 hours a day, I get to spend that time exercising or enjoying more quality time with my family.
Companies that are 100% have to be good at this. Others may sleepwalk into operational mistakes regarding your career.
I've worked remotely for the past 5+ years. Most of it has been teams that have been mostly co-located. As a remote worker, this leaves you out of so many important company functions. No water cooler talk, no random whiteboarding sessions, dial-in to a conference room where you can barely hear cross chatter, get left out of in-house announcements, etc. You're really bounded to interacting via email, chat, and project management tools when you're the only remote employee.
100% remote companies have their challenges, but those challenges are shared by everyone. People understand the need to communicate in public places, avoid isolating patterns, and intentionally surface information to larger groups when possible. Nobody really has to worry about getting left out or missing a promotion because they didn't have "face time".
Say GitLab was entertaining acquisition offers, would the CEO just ask the lawyers to come hang out in his living room?
Or do they mean "of course we have a small office for legal and practical reasons, but rank-and-file employees all work remotely".