I keep reading about the trend of many people in Bay Area, NYC and other big cities moving away from downtown and buying houses in suburbs or small cities due to WFH during covid. Why is this happening, if WFH would just be temporary in most companies? Wouldn’t these people need to move back closer to work after covid? I work at Amazon. I’m wondering about this as I’m looking into buying a house and trying to be close to work so that I don’t have to have a big commute when we have to go back to the office.#wfh #remotework
It depends on the nature of your job and the company. In my understanding because of covid, wfh happens. If covid will never go away, then wfh would be the new normal. It is true that buyers are buying further out, partly because of being cramped in an apt for so long makes them realize, they want a home and would commute when wfh is no longer working out.
If covid never goes away, I think many will stop caring and life will go back to normal. All these measures are acceptable only because of their temporary nature
Part of it is WFH or partial-WFH will be more accepted industry-wide post-COVID, so why pay loads of rent for a postage stamp sized apartment just to live near work?
Maybe because they want more space instead of being holed up for another year?
What about the fact that they will have to deal with a long commute once we return to normal? There’s no guarantee most companies will allow WFH after covid. For example, I don’t see amazon allowing WFH after covid.
You never know. I heard Amazon is targeting x% workforce to WFH to reduce cost
Partial WFH will be a thing in almost every company. I'm interviewing at Amazon right now and the recruiter said she can try to match me with a fully remote friendly team and also the ones that weren't would almost certainly be open to some wfh after covid. This is just from a recruiter but from my reading online it seems to be pretty accurate.
People are anticipating only needing to be in the office 2-3 days a week post pandemic. Commuting further isn’t as bad when you don’t do it every day.
Op works at amazon, so op knows edge computing. Not everyone has to be at HQ like in cloud. Campuses can spread to small neighborhood cities to keep same productivity while reducing commute and traffic. It is also a good thing for climate change.