I can’t wait to go back to the office. Working from home for over a year has worn me out. I don’t understand why people would choose to work from home permanently unless they have other non-work obligations.
If you are the kind of person who would just sit in your cubicle without much interaction with others even if you go to the office, then working from home is probably right for you. Unfortunately I am not. Video conferencing just can’t replace face-to-face interactions.
Maybe metaverse will eventually solve this problem for me.
i just got a new job with a company NOT in the Bay Area. The offer is remote, WFH. its a dinosaur company trying to NOT be a dinosaur company, and they sold me hard so the opportunity is good, but I didn’t want to work for them partly because I am TIRED of WFH. I ended up taking it because I can get experience building a software platform from the ground up, but not excited about the WFH part.
yes. They had to go out of bands that existed in their current pay structure (I am getting paid more than the top of my band usually gets) They are REALLY feeling scared about missing out on Bay Area talent. though I am not that talented. I just have a deep background in EVs/Grid/Solar
for me, I’ve had recruiters reach out and when I say I am not able to move out of the Bay Area at this time due to my husband, they are quick to point out they can make the role remote. Again, I am in the clean energy space and I think there is so much growth right now, there is a run on warm bodies to staff it, so maybe its a function of right now.
What is considered a good salary in Bay Area these days? For instance, is $200k total compensation for an engineer with 10+ years experience at the upper, middle or lower end?
Have you started at the new company yet? Just wondering what your experience is getting on-ramp’ed with a new company fully remote. Is it hard to get in the grooves with the new tools/workflow etc? What about socially with coworkers?
Is driving to work 45 minutes each way life? This is like using horse carriages for transportation when motor cars around.
The following reasoning in particular from the article is difficult to comprehend. Are the restaurants there to serve the office workers or is it the other way around? We’re paying a lot of sales taxes in online shopping which has exploded in the last few years.
The prolonged absence of office workers has hurt downtowns around the world, particularly San Francisco, which has seen a slew of restaurants and retailers go out of business. BART ridership, foot traffic and sales tax revenue remain below pre-pandemic levels, though they’ve started to rebound as some workers have returned and more people have become vaccinated.
