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Old May 17, 2023 | 7:24 am
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planesquid
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Originally Posted by invisible
I have first-hand experience in the tech industry. I am fully remote and have never been in any company's offices since got hired 1.5 years ago - never seen my manager in person.
Tech, fully remote for almost a decade, company I worked for was absorbed by a larger one (also very distributed/remote) during the pandemic, I think they are slowly realising that all the people who interact via Zoom/Slack/mail in different time zones would benefit massively from regular in-person interaction (speaking entirely for myself, after a decade of talking to myself on the interwebs I'm ready to take a job in a convenience store) and anyway on Tuesday my manager's manager (I have never met either) was like "OK, can you be in Europe next week for a week with all the other co-workers who have never met each other" so here I am preparing for my first work-related flight in 5 years.
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