| Personal observation. 1/3 of my network is not going back to the office with their current employer. They got rid of their leases and invested in infrastructure to support remote work for the next decade. Another 1/3 are a mix of wfh and hybrid, with the wfh group already being notified they should expect to be hybrid in the near feature (my wife included). The last group was already given the order to return to office or get fired, some did but some remain defiant, this includes a couple of friends from Amazon thousands of miles from Seattle who are expecting to be axed any day now, although it may never happen. So I believe at the end about half of my network will be wfh permanently. That seems to me like a critical mass to trigger a "revolution". How could anyone stay at their current job having to commute to an office knowing half of the people they know don't do that? This is like being ok at your current job when they don't offer something as basic as health insurance or PTO. I would be constantly looking for a new job that allows wfh and eventually I will find it. |
I expect lower market rates for remote work, because it's harder to differentiate ourselves from anyone else in nearby timezones. If RTO is the way to continue Bay Area comp, I will, as much as I may complain about open plan desks.