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Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely (2023)

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72 points jakey_bakey | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 17:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.228s | source
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mytailorisrich ◴[22 Oct 24 18:10 UTC] No.41917009[source]▶
40% say that, but how many actually do?
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hosh ◴[22 Oct 24 18:15 UTC] No.41917072[source]▶
The article talks about 18% of jobs in the US market are now remote.
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s1artibartfast ◴[22 Oct 24 18:32 UTC] No.41917251[source]▶
"now" being 2021. 2021 was still solidly within the pandemic. It would be interesting to see if that number has gone up or down since then.
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downrightmike ◴[22 Oct 24 21:08 UTC] No.41918727[source]▶
There are no metrics that show RTO is anything other than management trying to control people, all the metrics out there show WFH is way more productive and profitable. But companies have a perverse incentive to keep the executives who bought into the CRE bubble when it was already a zombie in 2006.
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1. s1artibartfast ◴[22 Oct 24 23:15 UTC] No.41919736[source]▶
That seems completely irrelevant to the question. Even if it is for entirely sadistic reasons, that doesn't mean the numbers are as high as they were in 2021 or that everyone that wants a WFH job today can get one.