WFH can get you 40% salary boost in UK and US tech jobs
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Looking at six million data points from Glassdoor, the employer comparison service, HR software biz Remote found 31 percent of web developer jobs say they are remote-based followed by software engineers and translators. Web developers also get nearly £13,000 more than average in WFH roles. For software engineering, the difference is around £6,500.
In the US, the web developer is the most likely role to be offered under WFH arrangements. The role is paid $22,508 more than average when performed remotely. That's a 37 percent difference, slightly more than a software engineer in percentage terms, but in dollars software engineers get much more: it's around a $25,000 difference above the average salary.
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[2]Remote also looked at the industries most likely to offer WFH arrangements. IT is the highest as nearly one in six roles in the UK are advertized as remote in the sector. In the US, the industry most likely to offer WFH roles was management and consulting (19 percent), media and communications (16 percent), and IT at just over 15 percent.
[3]I was reasonable to ask to WFH in early days of COVID, says fired engineer
[4]Salesforce's new hires are less productive, says CEO Benioff
[5]'What's the point of me being in my office, just because they want to see me in the office?'
[6]Bias toward office staff will cost you: Your WFH crew could walk, say execs
Nadia Vatalidis, Remote VP of people, said: "Employers hiring for remote roles have a much larger selection of top tier candidates and a reduced need for costly office space among other benefits. In addition, employees who prefer the remote life-work balance gain increased flexibility and the potential opportunity to work from anywhere in the world."
Working from home has become a hot topic in the tech industry since pandemic-induced worldwide lockdowns hastened the trend. Attitudes have been divided since.
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In September last year, [8]Microsoft found employers still don't know just how fruitful their staff are when away from the office, leading to "productivity paranoia." Some 85 percent of biz leaders say they have a "hard time knowing for sure that their people are being productive," the study found.
According to a survey of 50,000 employees in June and July last year, Brit workers are going into the office on average [9]1.5 days a week but more and more employers are expected to call staff back in, including [10]BT .
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It seems that some managers may need to reassess the measures they use to decide how productive their staff are, or [12]risk losing some of them . ®
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Re: They can pry my home desk ....
.. away from me for a 67% pay rise and 3 days a week at home. Hopefully, I'll get that up to 4 days a week within a year, and back to fully remote within 3 years.
Landlords
Can see how landlords are getting a fit reading this.
Looks like the market has spoken.
Now shove your open plan nonsense up yours.
"Nadia Vatalidis, Remote VP of people"
Now that is a Grade A work title.
Not a clue what she does or who she does it for, but you can't deny she must be useful for something .
Damned if I knew what it was, though.
productivity paranoia
The only reason business leaders are getting paranoid is because staff who work from home tend to expose the superficial management requirement that can happen in some work places .
Managers who are "nervous" must be wondering if the game is up, so to speak.
Luckily, I work with a manager who wants to WFH and we all get on splendidly.
Re: productivity paranoia
It's weird that managers are not milking this whole WFH situation to their benefit.
If they feel they have not much to "manage", then what stops them to sign on multiple gigs at once?
They should just get them in different time zones so that the stand ups don't clash.
How did these companies survive
With everyone tossing it off at home and not working how have these companies survived ?
OR
Is it managers trying to justify their jobs?
Alright for now, but...
I've said this a number of times; I'm really interested to see what the face of the tech industry looks like in about five to ten years time, and what correlation there might be between the leading companies and companies that pushed to get their people back in the office.
Spontaneous innovation doesn't happen when every conversation is to a schedule. Learning by osmosis is certainly slowed, if not stalled, when people aren't talking freely. And while we might be alright with our skillsets, I've already seen new joiners struggling to pick up the necessary domain knowledge to do their job in a completely remote environment.
Some companies will adapt, of course - but others I can see struggling and possibly folding as those with the knowledge move on and those who replace them take longer to get up to speed.
They can pry my home desk ....
.... from my cold dead fingers!!!!