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The best thing we did was bite the bullet and stop hiring remote folks using some CoL metric invented by HR.

The pool and quality of candidates we interviewed pretty much went up overnight and we started getting a lot of quality internal referral.

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To clarify, your company didn't stop hiring remote, it just stopped making a cost-of-living adjustment to salary offers to remote candidates? Did management also increase salary for existing employees who lived in ow CoL areas?

We stopped making cost-of-living adjustment to salary offers to remote candidates.

Wasn't a company-wide move however.

Did the salaries drop or rise?

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