Resourcely is 100% remote and we're crushing it. We have more access to tech talent than companies that only hire in the Bay Area. This is a puff piece designed to get outrage clicks and nothing more.
I'm very pro remote work as an employee but as someone starting a company here is something I think about:
By making RTO required for my startup, am I introducing a filter that will filter out many employees I wouldn't want anyway?
There are real benefits to working side by side in office, just like for the business and employee there are real benefits to remote work. Hiring is so difficult already, having a filter that will get rid of the applicants not willing to put 100% into the startup seems like a good trade.
Ok, with that said, now is the time I am destroyed by the work life balance mob.
Pay me enough to live, and save, give me a giant cut (not the meager equity of the last 25 years) and a place to show up to 3-4 days a week.
The whole point of a startup, of putting in that work is that you're making a bet. A bet on the idea, and the team, the team is making that bet too. The table stakes for startups have changed, and you're going to need a much more egalitarian distribution for your first 10-50 hires now if you want to attract talent.
I love working from home :)
But if I was doing the “give 100% to a startup” thing - as an employee or a founder - there’s no way I could stomach being 100% remote. No remote tools can replace having people in the same room working through a problem.
iancmceachern|1 year ago
They're also nearly fully remote, and they also have an office in SF.
Having an office somewhere doesn't tie to remote work or not. These are separate topics.
brigadier132|1 year ago
By making RTO required for my startup, am I introducing a filter that will filter out many employees I wouldn't want anyway?
There are real benefits to working side by side in office, just like for the business and employee there are real benefits to remote work. Hiring is so difficult already, having a filter that will get rid of the applicants not willing to put 100% into the startup seems like a good trade.
Ok, with that said, now is the time I am destroyed by the work life balance mob.
zer00eyz|1 year ago
This is where your a step out of pace.
> by the work life balance mob
And this is where they are missing the boat.
Pay me enough to live, and save, give me a giant cut (not the meager equity of the last 25 years) and a place to show up to 3-4 days a week.
The whole point of a startup, of putting in that work is that you're making a bet. A bet on the idea, and the team, the team is making that bet too. The table stakes for startups have changed, and you're going to need a much more egalitarian distribution for your first 10-50 hires now if you want to attract talent.
beoberha|1 year ago
bicx|1 year ago