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Originally Posted by paul78701
Will there be some effect? Yes, some office jobs will become work from home. The percentage of which is hard to say. I have serious doubts that the numbers will be as high as some are predicting.
Some of this was inevitable anyway. Plenty of companies were already having difficulty finding and/or holding onto talent. There's only so much of it that can be pulled into a single place (like Silicon Valley).
Up until now, many companies have been very short sighted in requiring that all employees be local. At some point, they were going to be forced to look past the end of their noses for talent outside of their localities and accept work from home employees. It just took a pandemic for some of them to finally see the necessity in that.
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In the original blog post from Salesforce, it also mentions the ability to cast a wider net for talent if there's a 100% remote option . . . And if that got going as a movement (not just a single company), you could see a rejuvenation of cities across the country, not just the ones that have already been anointed as part of the 2nd tier tech network (SLC, Austin, Denver, Raleigh Durham, etc).
Anecdotally, my wife has had a couple of job interviews with tech companies that have only recently opened up to candidates outside of SF and NYC respectively. It's not a stretch to add an Austinite, TBH, but both companies were explicit about searching outside of their normal circles. I can only imagine that, if they really cast their nets they could find candidates in Kansas City or Akron or Birmingham.
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