78% Of Professionals Are Willing To Apply To Fully Remote Roles

78% Of Professionals Are Willing To Apply To Fully Remote Roles

Although there is a lot of hype around remote work, only 4% of job postings are fully remote; it was 2% before the pandemic began. On Blind, an anonymous professional network, with 3.6M verified users, 78% of professionals say they would apply for fully remote jobs. 

The platform ran a survey from 9/25- 10017 and had 2,500 responses. The survey asked the following questions:

  • Would you apply to a job posting that is fully remote?
    • Why or why not?

Key Learnings: 

  • Only 22% of surveyed professionals responded “no” when asked if they would apply to a job posting that is fully remote.
  • As to why or why not?
      • A professional at Amazon expressed immigration concerns by responding  “not sure of visa rules would allow that” 
      • A professional at Prezi responded “I’m dying to leave SF”. 
      • A professional at Indeed joked “would love to continue doing my job in sweatpants”. 
      • A professional at Bloomberg said they would not apply to go full remote due to the lack of “social interaction/building a network”
      • When we put the results into a word cloud, the words “commute”,  “flexibility”, and “person interaction” came up the most frequently. 

You can see the report highlighting the overall responses here.

A user at Yprime  asked the platform “Full Time Remote Roles (FAANG)? Does anyone know what large / elite companies are offering full time remote developer positions? Obviously Facebook has announced plans to and I know Amazon is offering full remote roles with select teams. Are any of the other big companies offering full-time remote roles? I’ve been fully remote for 5 years so it’s been slim pickings for remote roles, let alone ones at the big boys.” 

Will companies keep building these campuses and filling them with perks like free food, green space and gyms to attract talent? Or will they monizitize on this willingness to go fully remote?