With Melbourne having been in lock down last year for more than 3 months in a single stretch, everyone who physically could work from home were forced to... and now we're all used to it. As companies have slowly opened offices back up in the past few months, and some companies forcing employees back into the office, I think that's given a lot of managers perspective in term of work from home... in that, if you don't continue the option of work from home, you're going to lose staff.
My brother-in-law recently spoke to a recruiter who had two jobs advertised. Both jobs had the same job description, and the only difference was that one was work from the office while the other was work from home (with a $20k pay reduction). Over 60 people applied for the work from home role while a single applicant applied to the work from the office role. Let me repeat - people opted for a $20k drop in pay so they could work from home.
It's good that Silicon Valley companies are letting people repatriate whilst not losing staff... I've always thought that only focusing on the small pool of people in your local area for perspective employees was a hiring local maximum.
$20k/year gross = $250-ish/wk after tax. Given Sydney housing prices, you may still be better off taking the lower package and living somewhere that's not Sydney.
Furthermore, at least in the US, a long commute can chew up a decent portion of that (between gas/depreciation/parking/rail pass) even just looking at the economics.
My brother-in-law recently spoke to a recruiter who had two jobs advertised. Both jobs had the same job description, and the only difference was that one was work from the office while the other was work from home (with a $20k pay reduction). Over 60 people applied for the work from home role while a single applicant applied to the work from the office role. Let me repeat - people opted for a $20k drop in pay so they could work from home.
It's good that Silicon Valley companies are letting people repatriate whilst not losing staff... I've always thought that only focusing on the small pool of people in your local area for perspective employees was a hiring local maximum.