
American tech giants are at the forefront of companies bent on putting their workers in offices, even if their employees don’t want to. We talk about Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft (You can read below what methods each of them uses to convince -or force- the most rebellious workers to return).
Still, while they’re trying to get people back into the office, they’re still launching jobs that can be done remotely.
It should be said that most job offers require workers, even if they are remote live in the United States, and sometimes even in the city where the company’s headquarters are located (for example, Microsoft requiring people to live in Redmond).
Remote jobs but with location requirements
If we take into account that human resources experts recommend that companies be flexible if they want to attract talent, but at the same time there is talk that people are being deceived with this objective, there may be something of a “trapped cat”.
It must be remembered that Paul Graham, who co-founded Y Combinator, a Silicon Valley startup that invested in Airbnb, Stripe and other well-known companies have even said that many companies managed to deceive many people with this.
At Amazon, one of the biggest protests and concerns of the staff is that, since the company had offered teleworking forever, many people moved cities with their families, bought houses in other states… and now they are forced to return to Seattle where the cost of living In addition, it has become much more expensive compared to many other cities in the country.
Remote offers from tech giants
Remote flexible jobs have gained considerable traction in recent years, driven by the evolving needs of the modern workforce. This innovative approach to employment offers individuals the opportunity to balance their professional commitments with personal commitments, fostering a heightened sense of work-life harmony. By eliminating the constraints of traditional office-based work, remote flexible jobs empower employees to optimize their productivity and efficiency, ultimately contributing to the overall success of their organizations. As the global landscape continues to transform, the demand for such flexible work arrangements is poised to escalate, underscoring the importance of embracing this paradigm shift in the employment sector.
For example, Amazon has 43 new job offers that are for remote work. Especially for these sectors: cybersecurity, engineering, marketing…
In the list, you can see that the company requires people to be located in the United States and, sometimes, They ask you to be in a certain city or state concrete.
For its part, Apple, which among all those mentioned in this article is the only firm that has not carried out massive layoffs in recent months, has 20 new positions. About half are for sales positions and half involve software work.
The firm wants to force its staff to return with punishments. In the case of this list of new remote jobs, some are linked to cities but “that doesn’t mean you have to live nearby”. For example, there is an ad that says it is based in San Diego, but clarifies that you can live in any city within the United States.
Google also looks for people outside the country
For its part, Google, one of the companies that has carried out the most layoffs, has 133 new vacancies.
Anyway, you are interested to know that a third of the vacancies are for outside the United States. In Spain, we don’t see anything, although we do in Dublin or London.
It should be said that Google has a large enough physical footprint that most jobs are tied to certain office locations and are jobs qualified as “eligible remote” rather than fully remote.
Meta and Microsoft: more remote jobs
Meta, the company that includes Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and also the new Threads that wants to compete in the style that Twitter is leaving behind, has launched 249 job offers, which shows that the company is receptive to teleworking, despite the criticism of its leader, Mark Zuckerberg, of this way of working, in recent months
Meta is second only to Microsoft in the number of job listings supported by distance. Although in the case of the Windows giant, many of the openings are tied to optional physical locations, but there are also a handful of purely remote positions.
Microsoft has 323 vacancies. Anyway, this list is divided between the tasks that can be done “up to 50% work from home” (following the hybrid model that is prevailing) and others that say that “up to 100% work from home”.
That “until” seems to indicate that Microsoft will ask people to go to the office. It should not be forgotten that their leader suffers from the so-called “productivity paranoia”.