Developers as a community are currently screaming about a number of things companies can do to steal us away, even for less money:
- Go full remote
- Locate offices in reasonable COL US markets (my company has overwhelmingly rejected this one and skipped from NY/SF/Seattle to the developing world).
- Provide private offices, cubes, team rooms... any kind of workspace other than the in-vogue open floorplan barn.
Companies are not in their wildest dreams going to touch any of those things with a 10-foot pole at scale. Do they not know? Do they think we're lying? Or would they just rather complain than actually solve the problem?
- Go full remote
- Locate offices in reasonable COL US markets (my company has overwhelmingly rejected this one and skipped from NY/SF/Seattle to the developing world).
- Provide private offices, cubes, team rooms... any kind of workspace other than the in-vogue open floorplan barn.
Companies are not in their wildest dreams going to touch any of those things with a 10-foot pole at scale. Do they not know? Do they think we're lying? Or would they just rather complain than actually solve the problem?