Reddit Experience · Aug 2020 · Remote

If an employer doesn't have a remote policy "after" COVID, I won't work for them

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I have been doing some job searching and interviews off and over the past months and I am seeing a theme in my area: employers want you in the office 5 days a week after COVID is over. I just talked t

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I have been doing some job searching and interviews off and over the past months and I am seeing a theme in my area: employers want you in the office 5 days a week after COVID is over. I just talked to a company whose entire office is working from home right now and their profits went up 11% last month. When I asked what their remote policy would be if/when COVID calms down they said you would have to be in the office five days a week. To that I say, fuck that. No one knows what the state of the US will be with disease and social unrest at that point. If you can get all the work done and actually have an increase in profit what's the point of having archaic remote policies? Why not have it flexible for those who want to be in office part time? Not to mention companies save money with having remote employees, there is less traffic and pollution, and there is less demand on America's aging infrastructure. I'm at the point where if there is no remote policy for companies that are already remote then they are not worth my time. It shows there is no regard for employees right from the start. Am I being unreasonable here?

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