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Small company data point here, but we're going more remote, not less.

Previously, remote was basically for people that had been with the company before and left the area, but that we wanted to keep.

The pandemic finally wore down the last bit of resistance to embracing remote fully. We still have our (scaled down) office location, but new hires need not have ever set foot in the area.

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Exact same story here. Previously we had a few remote employees because the option was to let them go remote or lose them. ~3 months into the pandemic, when it became impossible to hire engineers, we said "fuck it" and accepted that we'd become a remote company even once the pandemic was over, just so that we could access the wider talent market.

There's sort of a tipping point where enough companies being remote heavily dilutes the talent you can find in a city now. It probably means any one city after the pandemic has at most 50% of the talent it had before.

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