📈 Remote work increased in 2024

Inside: jobs at Zeta Global, Datavant, and LMI. Plus: remote work increased from 2023-2024, fewer open tech jobs, early Prime Day deals, ghost job wall of shame, and more.

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September 30, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes

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The job guide we released a few months ago will be totally free moving forward. It was initially something we’d used as a growth tool (any newsletter writers who want to nerd out over that, feel free to reach out) — but ultimately I want as many people as possible to access it.

The current plan is to update it every few months, and I’ll announce it here each time that happens. Always feel free to share the guide with anyone looking for a remote job.

This first version has 51 job boards reviewed, and I’m currently sifting through many more to see if they’re worthy of inclusion in the next version. Stay tuned!

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Featured companies:

Zeta Global: 24 remote jobs
Datavant: 35 remote jobs
LMI: 78 remote jobs

Need to Know

📈 Remote is still on the rise
Headlines lately have been jumping to conclusions about remote work. While Amazon, Dell, and other big companies with lots of unused office space enforce office mandates, numbers don’t lie.

According to the Owl Labs State of Hybrid report, full-time in office attendance is down from 66% last year to 62% this year. Hybrid is about the same at 27%, and full-time remote went up from 7% to 11%. (Forbes)

🥐 French workers call for strike over RTO
A french video game workers union has called for a strike after a return to office mandate:

After more than five years of working efficiently in the current remote-work context, many of our colleagues have built or rebuilt their lives (family life, housing, parenthood, etc.) and simply cannot return to the previous working conditions. Our employer knows this perfectly well. The consequence of its decision will be the loss of our colleagues' jobs, the disorganization of many game projects, and the drastic increase in psychosocial risks for those who remain.

SJTV Union

While this admittedly plays straight into the stereotype of the French protesting anything and everything, I do have strong appreciation for the pushback against an unnecessary office mandate. (PC Gamer)

💼 Jobs of the future
The jobs market is undergoing drastic changes, and those changes will soon accelerate with the introduction of AI into so many of our job functions. The World Economic Forum (WEF) published a whitepaper exploring ways that the international business community can proactively address these changes to set ourselves up for success.

Summarized in a LinkedIn post by WEF Managing Director Saadia Zahidi, these are the four key areas that we’ll need to focus on near term:

  • ⁠Reskilling and upskilling for emerging opportunities

  • Improving employee-employer matching

  • Worker safety nets

  • Multistakeholder collaboration to overcome industry barriers

We’ll keep working on that second bullet point, with a particular focus on remote 😊 (World Economic Forum)

📉 Tech jobs are falling
Speaking of a change in the jobs landscape: this WSJ article made a big splash when it was published recently, saying in the headline that tech jobs “aren’t coming back soon.”

Engineer Chris Volz, interviewed by the WSJ, is experiencing what so many across the US are this year: a surprisingly low number of available jobs and companies that want to hire technical talent. He’s been an in-demand engineer since the 1990s and says this jobs climate feels far worse than any other time in his career.

He’s not wrong — ADP disclosed that their customers have been employing fewer and fewer software engineers for the last several years:

There is seemingly one exception to this trend, and that’s for engineers with experience working with large language models. Those skills are in incredibly high demand, and the pay reflects it as well. (Wall Street Journal)

🙅🏻‍♀️ She quit her job due to RTO
Former network television producer Jennifer Oliva quit her job in 2021 when her company implemented an RTO mandate that her boss said she needed to adhere to. After leaving that company, she started her own publicity firm that she now runs full-time.

Remote work has allowed her to spend more time with her kids and on activities that make her happy.

It turns out there’s some silver lining in the office requirements: “I'm grateful my company implemented the RTO mandate. It pushed me toward a new career path that fits the type of work-life balance I want and turned me into an entrepreneur with a thriving business.” (Business Insider)

Stuff We Like

🖥️ Best WFH products rounded up
CNN’s Underscored division compiled a list of great chairs, monitors, and other accessories for WFH. (CNN Underscored)

💸 Early Prime Day deals
Another product compilation, this one from WIRED, features plenty of products useful for remote workers, and expands into everyday tech like Apple products, security cameras, and air fryers. (WIRED)

👻 Ghost jobs
Someone on Reddit created a google sheet with a list of companies that are guilty of posting “ghost jobs.” While there isn’t any serious governance for inclusion, it’s good to see people are starting to publicize companies that are wasting everyone’s time in the job search process. (r/jobsearchhacks)

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