Hacker News Reader

Comment by asdajksah2123 | Hacker News Reader

The great part is that tech (and other white collar) workers used that small window of opportunity where they had tremendous bargaining power to push for policies that will make it even easier to replace them.

It feels like a white collar repeat of what blue collar voters did in the US in the 70s and 80s.

View on HN

> The great part is that tech (and other white collar) workers used that small window of opportunity where they had tremendous bargaining power to push for policies that will make it even easier to replace them.

Any examples of those policies?

Work from home. Even with the pandemic over and some big tech companies not wanting to fully commit, remote work has become dramatically more commonplace in the industry than it was a few years ago pre-pandemic. Even conservative companies like Two Sigma were forced to introduce flexible hybrid models.

The very obvious one is remote work policies. Before you were only competing against people in your immediate area or people who were willing to move. Now you're competing against everyone. That's a much broader pool of employees for companies to pull from.

Isn't that worse for employee wages though? More employees to pick from = more competition among workers = lower wages?

Employees also have a much broader pool of employers to pull from.

That’s just one side of the coin. With remote work, your pool of available jobs also increases. At least in Europe that’s a big win since the whole continent has only 2 or 3 hours of difference.

I'm guessing they are referring to remote work location/wfh

Reply on news.ycombinator.com