Doubt it. It used to be like 2% of the workforce remote before the pandemic. Then it went to 90% or whatever. Now it's coming back down, but won't go back to 2%. It'll be much higher, 20 or 30% perhaps now cost of living has gone through the roof, housing is crazy, gas is crazy, groceries crazy, urban rule of law went to shit. To top it off everyone has seen what it's like and it's a very real thing now, not some mythical fairy tale like it was. Besides, remote hirers before used to look for people with experience working remote so that they know they can handle it. Now everybody has that experience.
Boomers want to have everyone commute to the office again of course, but that only works for peasants. People who are the top workers of their field always have their pick, and they're picking the smart choice which is remote. I think going forward there will be a class of elite specialized workers who do only remote, while mediocre workers have to commute, and of course the people who want to suck cocks all the way to C-suite level will be coming in to establish presence.
Which is also why it's retarded that people say WFH makes you replaceable. The people who get to WFH are generally the top workers. They couldn't be replaced by domestic workers let alone some 3rd world idiot who couldn't even get an H1B. If they could replace you, they'd threaten to do so unless you come in to the office.
Which is also why it's retarded that people say WFH makes you replaceable.
If the WFH people were replaceable, then the jobs would have been offshored to poo land. The problem is that the IT shortage is so bad that now poo companies are giving quarterly retention bonuses. International labor shortage.
I don't think it makes you replaceable, but I think it makes you hard to promote. It doesn't make you hard to pay, though. Depends on what you want.
but I think it makes you hard to promote.
Great resignation. Then again too many boomers keep retiring, and there are not enough people in the pipe line to replace them. combine that with obama care allowing for consultants to have health insurance, and we now live in an era where you can live without a corp job.
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