> San Francisco, or Silicon Valley / Tech is also the most vocal proponent to everything could be remote should be remote.
Huh? Tech companies have been some of the hardest pushers of returning to the office.
Huh? Tech companies have been some of the hardest pushers of returning to the office.
Yes some bigger tech companies are pushing back, but others are going all in. This industry is the prime example of remote working, even if some are going back
Google, Meta, Amazon, Netflix, Apple, Salesforce, Twitter, Lyft, Spotify, Doordash, Snap, Uber and Ebay are hybrid or in-office.
Shopify, Dropbox, Coinbase and Airbnb are remote. Slack is as well but it's own by Salesforce so probably not for long.
So I think it's safe to say that overall tech is pushing for return to office. It's probably even more stark if you take the number of employees in these companies into account.
I believe there is space for both working modes. You take your pick. I'll take remote working for startups in the EU.
Companies that spread their employee office visits evenly through the week could achieve a reduction in office space of 20% / 40% by moving from full time office to 1 / 2 days a week remote.
Because there is even a debate to be had.
In NYC, it seems that tech is the only industry that allows remote work. Finance in particular is requiring employees to show up.
Other industries don’t cater to the demands of labor. Everyone is replaceable, but not so much in Silicon Valley.
Very accomplished, productive people have been let go in the recent layoffs. Being "productive" was always a paper shield, but it's not even that anymore; I think they're trying to disabuse the tech set of the notion that they aren't labor to bring wages down.