SO dev here. Not sure your size, but your first 10 users are much cheaper. On signup, it starts at $10/month and includes the first 10 users. It's $5/user/mo after that.
I'm curious what you think about remote work and whether it's overall a net positive for companies that are struggling to find talent in their own country.
There seem to be some obvious benefits: no need to worry about getting people visas, expanding your talent pool to beyond your geographic region, and so on. There's also legal tradeoffs: dealing with complicated laws with taxes, benefits, and so on.
In your experience, is opting for remote a net benefit? Or perhaps more fittingly, in what situations do you think it's appropriate for a company to consider building a remote workforce, wholly or partially?
I'm not aware of the costs of remote employment, which will vary from country to country, so it's hard to say but as immigration policies get more restrictive, I suspect that more companies will go this route. That being said, we still get a lot of requests from companies to bring their remote employees and contractors to the U.S. so that they're working as part of the main team even though the cost of employing them is probably higher.
Stack Overflow does. I'm an engineer there and we still think providing private offices to our engineering team is important for their productivity. This includes engineers, SREs, designers, data scientists, PMs, and others.
However, most of our engineering team is remote and if they're not in one of our locations, we give them pretty much what they'd like to build their own home office or go to a coworking space.
For me, I'm actually nomadic, so I tend to work from wherever I'm staying or end up in cafes a lot of time. I still get the support I need if my work "station" isn't optimal.
TL;DR Stack Overflow provides private offices, but is really flexible, especially given its remote policy.
I'm still occasionally sad that I bombed an interview at SO a while back. I had prepped for more of a front-end/full stack JS role, and got asked a series of low-level data structure questions. I thought I did alright given the circumstances (I did work out the correct answer to each one), but the interviewer wasn't impressed.
I asked for a do-over and they said no. Oh well...
Haha, yea, but I ended up at IBM Watson, which has been a pretty good gig so far. (It was a little better before they flip-flopped on remote, but that hasn't affected me as much as I thought it would.)
Work at Stack here. We still provide private offices for developers when they're in one of our offices. A lot of the engineering team is remote too, which lets people have their own workspace as well.
I wake up earlier. Both the meditation and pledge to write take up an extra hour in my day. It's causing me to readjust my old habits too: if I don't sleep late and get a good night's sleep, waking up earlier is easier and I can make the time.
I'm curious to see how this evolves in future weeks.
I'm not longer willing to regularly give up sleep. For me, it's more important than just about anything I would replace it with.
So, if I wanted to add 30 minutes of exercise into my day, I would have to subtract 30 mins of something else and there just aren't many things that I want to give up anymore.
I wish I could afford to be retired. I could retire and easily replace my working hours with making things and learning things and writing and reading and playing music, watching movies and travel and other hobbies. Maybe I'll buy a lottery ticket on the way home from work.
I absolutely love this idea - it solves for a HUGE pain point that entrepreneurs have dealing with the logistical, legal, and financial groundwork for a startup and getting to payments easily. Good lord, if Atlas were around for me to setup my startup, I would be crying tears of joy.
What I'm confused about is why they didn't focus more on the convenience advantages and positioned Atlas as a non-geo tied incorporation/setup offer. As many people have noted, the advantages of doing business as a U.S. company if you're not in the U.S. is unclear. It seems far more appropriate as a side note to the much needed advantages of solving a legal, financial, and accounting nightmare just to get payments. Why emphasize international?
They hand-pick some of the best free tutorials for each of the technologies you might need (including the other ones mentioned here) and even have curated tracks for front end.
If you're much larger than 10 - creeping into the 200+ people, it might be better to go with Enterprise: https://stackoverflow.com/enterprise