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Percentage of placements made with remote hires, 2021-2024 (Hirewell data): 👉2021 - 65% remote 👉2022 - 59% remote 👉2023 through 3/2024 - 33% remote Choose your narrative: “Wow, remote hiring has been cut in half. It’s over.” Vs “Wow, 33% remote hiring is a lot. It’s here to stay.” I don’t have any takes, I just thought you might like the data. Enjoy your Tuesday.
Kyle Dane
9mo
I always want to compare anything current to 2019. Do you have numbers from then?
Donna Svei
9mo
The numbers seem quite high compared to other reports I've seen. Thus, I'm curious about the population it covers.
Kuljit Singh
9mo
What is the source of this information?
Jon Lusky
9mo
The kneejerk reaction is correlate these numbers with RTO initiatives. While I'm sure RTO represents significant contribution to this change, I expect there are many factors involved. 1) VC funding in 2023 was down 38% compared to 2022. VC-backed startups are heavily remote-friendly, and they're hiring a lot less in 2023 and 2024 to date. 2) Many of the jobs that lend themselves to remote work are also the fields that have been hit hard by the layoffs in 2023 and 2024. I expect hiring is down for those roles regardless of remote/hybrid/onsite--do you have any data about that James Hornick? 3) Of course, RTO initiatives. Although as an aside, I wonder how many roles where attrition occurred due to rejection of forced-RTO are actually getting backfilled. Person quits due to relocation requirement or excessive commute, how often are companies replacing that person with someone onsite? 4) The insanity of posting a remote position in the current job market, often thousands of applications within days. Nobody has time to look through all of those. It's like trying to fill a cup with water from a firehose. Making it onsite or hybrid cuts that by at least an order of magnitude in many cases.
Pete Strouse
9mo
Hoping the trend line doesn't continue but I suspect it will. Has to bottom out somewhere. Then I suspect when most of the "old guard" has retired, we'll see remote work trend upwards again.
Michael M.
9mo
I don't know the reasoning for the decline, but the U.S. DOD came out with a self-debriefing report on remote work during the pandemic which I read on the DICE website; overloaded inbound networks, resulting in top secret teleconferences being done on the Zoom platform and such. From a technology standpoint, the internet is a public highway and not a private line. Many companies do not have the inbound capacity to handle a multitude of remote connections. Some companies still use mainframe applications, and still use emulators to "draw" the mainframe screen representation onto a PC platform such as a laptop at home; video is extremely high bandwidth centric, and takes a hefty response time outside of an internal company network. From a personnel standpoint, to me, remote work reduces collaboration, increases outstanding question response time, and decreases comradery, a key component for team building. Much of the reasons for remote work I've read comes from a "me first" attitude. I'm not siding with business or employee, but sometimes there needs to be understanding from multiple viewpoints, followed by reasonable compromise. Maybe that's how hybrid workplaces evolved.
Steve Mckevitt
9mo
What’s the numbers though, how many actual hires does each percentage represent?
Allison D.
9mo
Cool to see. I'm guessing a lot of those placements you made in 2021 were still working in their jobs (likely still remote) through 3/2024. So to me that means there could be less remote jobs to be had bc people are holding on to them.
Recruiter at ESS, Inc.
9moEvery narrative will just reflect the teller's biases. The truth is each one of these decisions represents a highly contingent, nonautomatic decision between two parties, employer and employee, each of which has their own various and varying reasons and priorities. These trends are driven from the bottom up, without that individual level knowledge it's just like price movements. You can know the trend, you can only guess at the overall cause and when/if it will change.