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‘The new normal’: work from home is here to stay, US data shows
(www.theguardian.com)
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It is? Then why can't I find a single work from home job that isn't a fake listing?
Found one real job this year without any problems. Maybe look worldwide? You're not any longer bound to your city or your county when looking for 100% remote.
I had to shift this attitude myself when I started looking around this year. Was used to only look for jobs nearby to reduce commute... Bullshit. Opened up for worldwide (English is business language nearly everywhere) and now happily work remote 100%.
I wish you much success!
And neither are people in every other country, including low wage countries...
That's always been the case though. He's have always outsourced to other countries but they can't do it completely because the quality of the work just isn't there. Because they're not trained.
That hasn't stopped thousands of companies from trying it, though.
Often more than once... (including the company I used to work for - they've outsourced, and re-homed a couple of times in the years I worked there.)
Scheduling alone makes it worth it to hire people in every hemisphere.
One of the vendors I used to deal with had support engineers in 4 different time zones so there would be someone on day shift no matter when they needed to deal with a problem.
That's an incentive to hire everyone in one hemisphere, unless we're talking about a world wide company that needs people in multiple times zones.
Every company I've worked with since 2007, big or small, has dealt with people in multiple time zones. Even when i was a freelancer.
Timezones and hemispheres are different things.
Good idea. Thanks for the tip.
BTW, which recruiting platform do you use? I've had zero luck on Indeed, LinkedIn, and Craigslist.
Every job I have ever had off LinkedIn has been because somebody contacted me, I just sort of maintain the LinkedIn site just in case somebody decides they want to head hunt me but I don't really consider it anything other than a passive collector of information. Certainly wouldn't use it as my primary jump hunting site.
Also Craigslist? Unless you're looking to be an organ donor I don't think you're going to have much look there
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If you're looking for just WFH jobs, check out FlexJobs. There's a membership fee, but because it's oriented towards remote work and because the end users pay part of the cost, it filters out a lot of the bullshit jobs.
Man I was I was really excited for this one, given my shitty experience with job hunting in the past (as I've mentioned). So today I finally went to the website, filled out their survey... Got one job listing in my results, for a programming gig. Yes seriously, just one single shitty result. I don't even know how to code. *sigh*
Thanks for trying but I should have known better than to get my hopes up. Guess I'll just die.
But I've been driving up and down all the streets and can't find any remote offices!
I literally have a company issued WFH laptop, from a company that now requires people to be in office again.
It’s not the jobs it’s the middle managers and real estate.
Try reading the article? They are pointing out that the percentage of people who did at least some work from home did not decrease between 2022 and 2023. This is not even full WFH. So what we see now is probably what it's going to look like going forward.
I hate to be a dick, but if you're struggling to find a job, and this is at all representative of your ability to do basic research, you have a glaring weakness that you can work on.
A big problem is the volume of fake listings.