I cannot believe you people will work for these companies and managers that require on-site and not fight back. We're losing our power. I hope nobody applies to these jobs.
Datadog, on-site only in NYC, Paris, Boston and Tel Aviv.. lmao. I live in one of the USA HCOL cities (not those, I'm Denver/Austin) and I wouldn't go near those places rent wise. $3500/month for a 2 bedroom is high enough for me to sit on my computer and write go. I've worked at 4 companies in the last decade moving off of Datadog to Grafana and they require on-site in NYC to write log chutes and charging an insane amount for their product while paying their NYC engineers $300k+. Wild.
Except a lot of people enjoy coming into the office, of course.
edit: Also, if the answer is that the company is just not prepared with the infrastructure & culture needed to support fully-remote developers, they are closing themselves off to approximately 40% of the available talent pool, not to mention a disproportionate number of minorities and women[0]. This should constitute an emergency that must be corrected immediately in the mind of any competent CTO or engineering leader.
[0] https://www.techtarget.com/searchhrsoftware/news/365531979/N...
You fucking HN-parody.
The reason I asked for sources is that there seem to be a lot of experiences/anecdotes on both sides of this issue, but so far I haven’t been able to find too much research that supports the idea that working in person is beneficial to overall productivity, or to the company culture, or to any other company-wide metric that would justify having a mandate that all employees must work in person. If that data exists I’d like to see it, so that I can decide whether it’s worth changing my own position on this issue.