[quote=an][quote=JPJones]Hey slight tangent, do any of you watch commercial real estate? Relevant to this topic, I’ve had a decent number of friends and former colleagues mention their companies either sold or let their office leases expire to go permanently remote.[/quote]My old company went fully remote mid 2020 and never looked back. Sub-leased their office and have grown dramatically over the last year and a half. With their work force everywhere in the world now AND several people I know who still work there have moved to other city/state, I don’t see them changing course and firing anyone.[/quote]

Same with my wife’s old company. The counterpoint to deadzone’s claim that ‘they’ll just hire from India now’ is that she’s now working for an Australian company, so that door swings both ways. My personal feeling from the tech industry in general is most businesses are now wise to the loss in quality and productivity that comes from hiring from cheaper countries, and they’re hiring practices have changed accordingly.