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Comment by agumonkey | Hacker News Reader

What is the situation regarding full remote offers ? Do you all see more and more restrictions, pressure and hybrid on site job ads ?

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I list remote only on my LinkedIn profile, it's what my current company offers. Recruiters and HR people only reach out to me to inquire about if I would accept Hybrid roles. I get 2/3 a week with the same spiel.

My last HR interview went south when after they pitched a lower salary, hybrid work and finally ended with "Are you sure you like your job now?" I told them I wasn't interested and that ended that.

The one remote job interview I did in the last year wasn't a good fit. I declined the offer.

That's so frustrating. I'm in the Bay Area, but strongly prefer remote jobs. First, I've enjoying having 90 minutes a day not spent commuting added back to my life. Second, I'd been with a remote-only company for several years, and it went swimmingly once we all adjusted to it. Finally, there's a big world out there. My wife's brought up checking out other places, and if I'm already remote, I can just up and move to wherever without disrupting my job one bit.

And yet, I still get recruiters asking if I'd like to hear about their on-site job in Tampa. No. No, I wouldn't.

I'm not a naive remote-work lover, but clearly the ability to go from bed to office in 12 seconds is a hard benefit. More, better sleep, less stress, also less diseases, 50% of the time I went on-site I came back with a flu, a cold or worse. My health if mediocre these days so staying at home is yet another bonus.

Personally I feel remote jobs have decreased a lot since February. Though for this month the number seem to be a bit more than the previous months.

The market is currently on the side of tech employers and those who want things to go back to the way they were are taking advantage of the situation. The pendulum pretty much always swings back and when things are in the favor of employees again, the companies that are now busy fostering bad will are going to have a much more difficult time attracting talent than those who are structuring their work environment for the new reality.

I've done remote hiring for a long time. Starting with COVID, the number of applications for remote jobs exploded. I'm not exaggerating when I say 1000s of applications within days.

Like it or not, employers have the upper hand with remote hiring right now.

It's not impossible to find good remote jobs, but you have to look deeper than the public job listings most of the time.

Thanks for the information. Maybe the lack of job ads is simply the consequence of what you mentioned. But there's so much articles about how companies are forcing people to come back to office buildings..

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