I work in marketing (brand and soon growth) for a remote only company with >500 employees.
My career for over a decade required me to physically be somewhere. Prior to Covid, I was “hybrid” depending upon production schedules. I’ve been remote ever since Covid started, with a short stint at an employer last year that required me to be in the office 3-4 days a week.
I’ll personally do everything in my power to never go back to an office. I had no idea how nerve racking commuting and small talk was for me until I found the freedom/ peace of working from home. I do tend to go to a coffee shop 2/3 days a week just to reduce cabin fever but, as long as I have headphones and wifi, it works for me.
Where I work, management and executives don’t care about hours worked, and are more focused on positive outcomes with projects. I don’t think this works for people who need structure and can’t independently create it but it’s perfect for me.
There’s also an underlying issue that large companies with big offices tend to be in major cities, where the COL is high and near expensive universities. Employees tend to be affluent or diversity isn’t as deep as, say, hiring someone from the 2nd/3rd world.
A weird thing is this new division in what remote work means, regarding how businesses are starting to require people to be in their home (vs. being a “digital nomad”). I’ve seen a lot of job listings require employees to have a stable remote location, which feels like a layer of unnecessary control by employers, especially when your job requires nothing but OK internet and space to take calls.
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