> Microsoft's Work Trend Index found that 65% of remote workers report feeling less connected to colleagues over time, with collaboration networks shrinking by up to 17%
Amazon in particular is only requiring people to be in an office not the office where their team is located. How does that help with collaboration?
> Career development has suffered too, with remote employees receiving approximately 8% fewer promotions than their in-office peers
This and other reasons is why I would never work for a company that wasn’t “remote first” and where everyone didn’t work remotely.
This. In office-heavy companies, the "remote guy" is one people talk about in every performance review. "They are remote, are they delivering enough value?"
With all the bad news we've been hearing in the past year, how are fully remote, or remote-first companies doing? Are there many jobs available?
I can’t find the article now. But I saw a citation that in office work is back to pre pandemic levels.
> With all the bad news we've been hearing in the past year, how are fully remote, or remote-first companies doing? Are there many jobs available?
In my experience looking for remote regular old senior enterprise Dev jobs with AWS experience last year and the year before is that every open req gets hundreds of applications (LinkedIn “Easy Apply” shows you) and I heard crickets from submitting hundreds of resumes. I had 10 years on my resume of relevant experience and I had just come off of a three+ year stint working at AWS Professional Services (full time direct hire).
In 2023, I did get two offers relatively quickly via my network and another offer by doing targeted outreach to a company based on a niche AWS service that they were looking for experience in.
In 2024, same thing, I was laid off and the day before, an internal recruiter at my current job reached out to me. While I was going through the interview process with them, I kept submitting resumes for regular old enterprise dev jobs and heard crickets again.
I did get the job I interviewed for. It is as close to a dream job as I can imagine.
For context: both times I was looking for full time strategic AWS consulting jobs specializing in app dev. The enterprise dev jobs were my plan B and what I did before mid 2020.
Amazon in particular is only requiring people to be in an office not the office where their team is located. How does that help with collaboration?
> Career development has suffered too, with remote employees receiving approximately 8% fewer promotions than their in-office peers
This and other reasons is why I would never work for a company that wasn’t “remote first” and where everyone didn’t work remotely.