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Inside: Globalization Partners is hiring in engineering, sales, marketing, and more. Plus: Google issues another mandate, states ranked for remote work, office romances need some help, unions fighting for remote work, and more.

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Remote Source
April 28, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes

Good Morning,

LinkedIn just released its latest Workforce Confidence survey results; the primary findings show that long job searches are more common, and the profession you’re looking into could have a big impact on your search timeline:

These results might be reflective of the sentiment the Shopify CEO shared recently, favoring the use of AI instead of hiring additional employees. While AI is playing a phenomenal role in making organizations more efficient, it’s still difficult to replace a person who executives will buy from (sales reps), a medical professional (healthcare services), or a human managing dozens of parallel demands that require company knowledge and personnel management skills (program and project management).

If you’re considering a career change, it may be worth paying extra attention to these roles above.

COMPANY SPOTLIGHT

  • Globalization Partners helps companies navigate global employment with HR, legal and compliance support to build teams anywhere.

  • 55 open roles, primarily in Engineering, Sales, and Marketing.

  • Remote-first job opportunities across the world in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, India, Ireland, and more.

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NEED TO KNOW

Remote work headlines:

  • Google is the latest big tech company to present remote workers with an ultimatum: move closer to the office or lose your job (CNBC)

  • Remote work has endured most effectively in countries that are primarily English-speaking (Stanford)

  • WalletHub ranks the best and worst states for remote work: Delaware, Utah, and Maryland came out on top, while Alaska, Montana, and Wyoming ranked the worst (USA Today)

  • Honda issues an RTO mandate effective October 2025 (Business Insider)

  • Employees with disabilities will disproportionately feel the negative impacts from return-to-office mandates (Mashable)

  • Louisiana governor issues an executive order preventing state employees from working remotely (NOLA.com)

  • Remote work is a new battlefield for unions to navigate (The Hill)

  • Office romances haven’t been killed by remote work, but they do require a little more “manufactured serendipity” (Business Insider)

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JOB SEEKERS

State of Hiring: Apply Early

Headlines haven’t been great for white-collar job seekers lately: workers are “frozen in place,” they need to be ready to “weather the job storm,” and many in tech specifically are “miserable at work.” This has led to far more job applications for most white-collar roles than their companies have ever seen.

And the CEO of Greenhouse, an applicant tracking system that powers job listings and applications for thousands of companies, even said in a recent interview with Fortune that AI is turning the job search into a “mad arms race.”

What can you do? The advice hasn’t changed drastically, but sending in a job application before others is still smart. One Gen Z startup founder shared that in 2018, he manipulated LinkedIn URLs to see jobs that were posted faster than the default speed would allow, which he partially attributed his successful tech internship to.

A LinkedIn career expert said applying to jobs in the first ten minutes they’re posted actually increased the chances of hearing from the company by up to 4X.

It’s not always possible to be alerted within ten minutes of a job going live, but it’s a helpful reminder that applying early, and putting alerts in place for new job openings, should be part of any job search strategy today.

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