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I’m currently looking for something fully remote so I can move where I want to, it’s just that most jobs that allow WFH actually expect you in their offices quite frequently so it’s not that simple.

I’d love to be able to move somewhere more rural as I’m not a city person, but I’ve had to live closer to the office in my past roles as they’ve all been hybrid.

A lot of jobs have hybrid working ranging from come in to the office at least x days per week to „we sometimes need to have ad-hoc in-person meetings“ so moving might not make sense.

I think the issue is most WFH jobs are actually hybrid. So people are still tied to towns and cities. And jobs are still primarily located in the M4 corridor.

If remote work was the standard way of working with the option to be hybrid if you wanted to go to an office that would have a greater impact on the country as a whole.

But as it stands hybrid is often mandatory.

Also a lot of these studies say people prefer hybrid. But they don’t explore why. Are they:
– able bodied
– have no long term conditions
– have shitty small apartments or live in a HMO
– have no designated space for a home office
– introvert/extrovert

Because as someone who is neurodivergent, has a long term crippling medical condition and a designated home office, I can say without a doubt that remote work is amazing. Not only can I care for myself better but I can engage in full-time work.

Technically my work is hybrid, but only in the sense that every now and then I will be expected to travel to one of the customer sites to conduct some meetings for information gathering. And travel is fully paid for by the company. I could if I wanted also go to one of our office sites and book a hot desk for the day. But if I had to go the office and had no choice about it. I would not be able to cope and would most likely find myself signed off and on PIP and UC.

Is this based on purely working from home or hybrid arrangements? Because if you still have to commute but not as often people will still want to be close to the office.

There’s also perhaps a lack of confidence that work from home will be a permanent arrangement. You won’t uproot your life if you’re not certain it will last

I will be starting a fully remote job but I will be staying in London because this is the most fun place to be lol

If they move to those areas they drive the cost of housing up, which is somewhat less helpful for people already living there than seems to be assumed.

Are new builds being thought about in terms of providing good home working spaces anyway? The last time I visited someone in one of those built for renters city centre blocks there was barely space for them to put their clothes away, let alone have anything like a work desk with a decent chair. If home working really is the future the planning for it needs to incorporate things like that too.

I straight up refuse to even interview for jobs that aren’t remote.

„You must come into the office 2 days a week“

Those days are invariably Thursday and Friday which is just an excuse to chip off early and go down the pub then do fuck all on Friday as half the office is hungover.

Or, what normally happens is that people just don’t show up on those 2 days because no one else does.

Of course it isn’t as mostly hybrid rather than full remote. So people still need to be within travelling distance to an office/workspace.

Because companies keep changing their minds that puts jobs at risk. If it was legal right you’d see more people move

Worth considering is that it doesn’t need a lot of people to move to more rural locations to push house prices up in those locations. Also mega isolated communities won’t be that attractive for most, what will happen (and has happened since the 1980s) is that people go to a small town or village within an easy drive of a city.

A few people moved out of cities but common sense would tell you that there isn’t enough accommodation to suit everyone. Where people live is mainly based on price I’d guess, plus the community

It doesn’t change where you live but it can seriously change where you work and earn your salary from, while for companies it significantly increases where they can hire from, especially for a lower salary.

People live where there are the facilities and culture that they are looking for.

Someone who enjoys nights out, the theatre, festivals or things like that isn’t going to move to bumfuck, nowhere, even if the housing is cheaper, since the important thing to them is the culture and other spaces available in the city.

Where they work isn’t super relevant to this – though they *might* move from an uber expensive city to a less expensive city.

I mean house price changes, challenges this. When wfh shifted to hybrid remote location houses fell in value and commuter towns went up

WFH has allowed people from all over the country to work for companies that previously would have been way too inconvenient to commute to, and has increased the size of the pool of available talent for employers. For me it’s allowed me to work for a company that would eat 3 hours of my life each day commuting to-and-from.

It hasn’t suddenly changed everyone’s mindset that they can live where they like though because, as we’ve seen, the government, public transport companies (seriously those National Rail radio ads can fuck right off) and many businesses have had a massive hard-on for getting people back into office spaces either full-time or hybrid.

It can’t be a shock to anyone that people are risk-averse when it comes to considering uprooting their entire lives to move further away from somewhere that will either suddenly decide on a whim you need to work in their office full-time, or regularly on a weekly basis for hybrid.

On the other side of that, I’d be materially and mentally worse off if they did so i’d be immediately looking for another job closer to home if they mandated work in the office. I wouldn’t be looking at moving closer to work to save money and time on a commute when any money savings would be wiped out and-then-some with how expensive a smaller house closer to the city would be.

I WFH, and could easily work from anywhere in the world if I wanted to (company actually has a 2 week WFA policy). My wife, unfortunately, still has to go in to her job, so we’re pretty much stuck where we are.

Yeah no shit. WFH is usually just 2-3 days Flexi. I still have to be within spitting distance of the office. True remote WFH would change things but UK employers are dinosaurs who won’t change.

Utter BS. The Kent and Sussex coastal towns have been flooded and utterly colonised by wankers from London since Covid.

My job is fully remote and it’s bloody brilliant and I’m so much more productive than I was when I worked in an office. I have to go to Head Office 4 times a year but it’s a nice little city break, last time they put me in a posh hotel and I got upgraded to a suite!