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but more than half turn out to not really be remote

I’m seeing is a lot for software development job postings in Canada. It is “remote” but you are required to live in the city.

Yes a lot of jobs in Canada that are "remote for now"; sometimes made explicit, other times implicit.

Also an uptick in American companies attempting to hire remote from Canada, which is potentially good, except that I doubt many of them actually have the infrastructure (payroll, benefits, etc.) for doing the hire, so it's either contract, or it never actually happens.

For some international contractors this can be a nice pay bump, but I wonder if it's just hay fire and in a few months time companies realize that keeping a remote team functional requires work and they decide to just roll back. Time will tell.

My company has a intriguing combo of mandatory office with most teams being distributed.

So you are guaranteed a remote work environment from an open office.

I really don’t think that will work long term, so can see a lot of restructuring.

I've seen a lot of bait and switch from recruiters on this recently.

Job listing: Remote possible

First/Second interview: We would actually prefer this position to be on site.

That's shady, but look on the bright side: the bait is a tell that they know what people want. Usually it's just a matter of time at that point.

I had the same experience interviewing this last month. A lot of companies that are remote during COVID that will pretend to be fully remote until an interview or two into the process.

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