AleksanderDec 16, 2022

LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky

"Pre-pandemic,~1% of all jobs posted on LinkedIn were remote. As of today, that number is ~14%...but that's not the fascinating part. What's fascinating is north of 50% of all job applications on a daily basis on LinkedIn go to that 14% of remote jobs"

Show threadWoozle HypertwinDec 27, 2022

@sumek

Just logically, the second part of that seems inevitable -- the pool of people who can apply for any given remote job is going to be much larger than the pool of people who can apply for a job in a specific location.

What I'd like to know at this point is how many of those local-only jobs really need to be local (and what the breakdown of reasons looks like), rather than just representing some Musk-like/authoritarian idea that remote work is somehow (just/mainly) slacking off.

Show threadHein RagasDec 28, 2022
@woozle @sumek I've been in a fully remote job for six months now, and I love it. I'm much more productive.
I've seen my direct colleagues exactly once -- it's a day's travel to the 'main office', so that only happens about once per quarter.
We have built a high-quality team that happens to be geographically dispersed, and that would not have been possible if the positions had not been remote-first.
Show threadWoozle HypertwinDec 28, 2022

@heinragas @sumek

I can think of very few reasons why an IT worker would need to be on site. With the increasing ubiquity of internet video, it basically comes down to equipment maintenance -- iff that's part of the job.

Show threadHein RagasDec 29, 2022
@woozle @sumek If the work consists of looking at a screen, it can be done remote. At least as good, and in some cases significantly better, than in an office.
Show threadWoozle HypertwinDec 29, 2022

@heinragas @sumek

My couch is a heck of a lot more comfortable for working on than anything a company is likely to provide, that's for sure.

Show threadHein RagasDec 29, 2022
@woozle I'm 40+, so ergonomics are important for me -- working from the couch would kill my back faster than any commute!
But I have the privilege that we have a separate office, that I could furnish with an electrically height-adjustable desk (I work mostly standing up) and the best desk chair I've ever sat on (the Moizi 18).
Show threadWoozle HypertwinDec 29, 2022
@heinragas It's interesting how people vary -- I'm 57, and I find that working from a "proper" office chair at a "proper" desk does the same thing to me ;-)
Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Dec 29, 2022
@woozle @heinragas I'm 44. Working on the sofa or bed affords me a whole range of positions, whereas working at the office desk with people around me affords me sitting down and standing up. I know which situation my back and neck prefer and it's the more varied one.
Show threadWoozle Hypertwin

@clacke

It helps that we have a very large sofa with a tall back, with a range of options for posture-support via strategic arrangement of pillowage. ^.^

@heinragas

Couch of Awesome

The Couch of Awesome (CoA) is a large couch purchased by Woozle's parents in 1975 and passed on to Woozle in 1990. It moved down to Athens in 1991; a few years later it acquired a wheeled framework, raising it off the ground by about a foot (thus theoretically making it easier to get out of). It then moved back to Durham (to 122 Pinecrest) in approximately 2003.

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