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Discussion on: What is the future of remote work in software development?

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Louis • Edited

A few years back, companies that worked remote first/only where an exception. Now it's exactly the other way around.

When I think of the future of remote work, I expect some huge changes, especially regarding geographic & financial factors.

  1. If you can work for a multitude of companies across the world, there's no real reason to pay people based on their (or the company's) location. That's going get interesting regarding salary & CoL in locations like the bay area. Sentences like "This is a typical NY salary" or "For country xyz, 30k$ are a good salary" will vanish slowly. At least I hope so.

  2. If you don't have to go to the office, the only thing that holds you back from going fully "nomadic" (besides family, etc.) is working on sync'd schedules - i.e. within a specific time zone. I think async work will be the next step after remote work as it unlocks so many possibilities.