Anonymous
02/18/2025 21:42
Subject: What companies are still widely hiring remote workers?
Anonymous wrote:I work in a non Fed job in DC (I'm here because my husband is a Fed so trying to figure out the lay of the land). We've been desperately trying to get people back to the office for a year or two but our biggest obstacle has been the prevalence of Fed jobs that are remote. No one applies for our non-remote job postings because so many all-remote or mostly-remote jobs are available. So I suspect that even the organizations allowing remote work now might shift over the next year now that this labor competition is gone. (Though many employers will probably continue to allow a day or two of remote work.)
+1 same as this PP and totally agree
Anonymous
02/18/2025 21:35
Subject: What companies are still widely hiring remote workers?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure why rto is so important to you ? Many have been back for several years; others worked throughout the darkest days of the pandemic. Go ahead and join the unemployed line. People like you (who feel entitled) have caused the bloodbath unleashed by Trump (and no I’m not a Trump fan by any means). I hope you lose your job - then you will be happy to be at work
Granted my DH (programmer) is 100% remote in the private sector, but what about people with disabilities? When I was 6 months pregnant I fell and tore a bunch of ligaments in my leg and broke three toes. If I hadn’t been able to work remotely, instead of being productive for another 3 months I would have needed unpaid leave (despite living in CA, as a Fed I don’t get disability).
What would you have done 25 years ago? Cry babies
As mentioned in my other post just now, I had about the first 15 years of my career commuting everyday. I started out in Boston and remember getting up at 3 am to shovel my car out and start driving slowly at 5 so I could get to work safely by 8. Everyone was surprised I didn’t take a day off, but I only had 8 days of leave a year so couldn’t really spend one on a snow day. I can’t imagine I was very productive that day compared to how I would have been if I’d been able to work from home. Another time I had a minor foot surgery and I sat at home and watched tv and read books and took sick time because I wasn’t supposed to be up and walking. So the answer to what I used to do is either make it work or miss work and I’m glad those aren’t my choices anymore.
Anonymous
02/18/2025 21:27
Subject: What companies are still widely hiring remote workers?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure why rto is so important to you ? Many have been back for several years; others worked throughout the darkest days of the pandemic. Go ahead and join the unemployed line. People like you (who feel entitled) have caused the bloodbath unleashed by Trump (and no I’m not a Trump fan by any means). I hope you lose your job - then you will be happy to be at work
Granted my DH (programmer) is 100% remote in the private sector, but what about people with disabilities? When I was 6 months pregnant I fell and tore a bunch of ligaments in my leg and broke three toes. If I hadn’t been able to work remotely, instead of being productive for another 3 months I would have needed unpaid leave (despite living in CA, as a Fed I don’t get disability).
Could you explain more about why you couldn't come into the office after that injury? Did you need to stay in bed? I'm imagining that you could have used crutches or a wheelchair at the office, but maybe that wasn't an option for you?
Carrying a laptop on crutches while 7 months pregnant and in winter weather (pouring rain where I am, so slippery) wasn’t ideally safe. My commute at the time was half a mile walk to the train station, 25 mins on the train, then 20 min walk to the office. My first child came a month early and I was on bedrest at the end. I’m guessing if I’d tried commuting that’s where the second pregnancy would have gone but who knows. I’m grateful I didn’t have to.
I previously had about 15 years of commuting daily (including pregnant and with an infant who attended a daycare near my office) so I know it can be done, I just don’t see the point of making people do it when their jobs can be done equally well at home and when that can be a great boon for hiring and retention.
Anonymous
02/18/2025 21:00
Subject: What companies are still widely hiring remote workers?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure why rto is so important to you ? Many have been back for several years; others worked throughout the darkest days of the pandemic. Go ahead and join the unemployed line. People like you (who feel entitled) have caused the bloodbath unleashed by Trump (and no I’m not a Trump fan by any means). I hope you lose your job - then you will be happy to be at work
Spoken like a true wife-beater.
“Why’d you make me hurt you?”
Not to mention, PP is profoundly ignorant considering many federal jobs were already hybrid well before COVID and then after COVID, there were agencies that literally designated their employees as fully remote.
they come off l ike a bunch of crybaby whiners!
I don’t understand this hatred for WFH. I always worked on-site due to security reasons, but I have never had even the slightest jealousy or anger towards people that can work from home. Good for them! And selfishly, the fewer people commuting into an office the faster and easier commuting is for me. So good for me!
I seriously don’t get it.
Anonymous
02/18/2025 20:31
Subject: What companies are still widely hiring remote workers?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure why rto is so important to you ? Many have been back for several years; others worked throughout the darkest days of the pandemic. Go ahead and join the unemployed line. People like you (who feel entitled) have caused the bloodbath unleashed by Trump (and no I’m not a Trump fan by any means). I hope you lose your job - then you will be happy to be at work
Granted my DH (programmer) is 100% remote in the private sector, but what about people with disabilities? When I was 6 months pregnant I fell and tore a bunch of ligaments in my leg and broke three toes. If I hadn’t been able to work remotely, instead of being productive for another 3 months I would have needed unpaid leave (despite living in CA, as a Fed I don’t get disability).
What would you have done 25 years ago? Cry babies
My dad worked at home a lot when I was a kid.... he had a home office, computer and phone/fax line.
Mine too. My dad did defense-related science at a publicly-funded lab and then worked for DOE for a year around 1980. He often brought an electrified keyboard/printer/modem computer peripheral home that could connect to a mainframe through a conventional telephone line.
Anonymous
02/18/2025 20:31
Subject: What companies are still widely hiring remote workers?
Anonymous wrote:I honestly think I'd rather go bankrupt than rto, but it seems that most companies have cut back on remote work. Are there any companies that still embrace it?
Why are you looking for a list of companies? Just hit the job boards and filter for remote. Talk to recruiters and tell them remote only. A list is just a bad way to go about a job search.