Yes, AI is used a pretext for many things. RTO, cost cutting, you name it. But since the fact remains though that there are fake recruits for remote positions, if you strip out the AI rhetoric, it remains a legitimate argument in favor of RTO.
It’s a legitimate argument to fly the person in for interviews.
I got my only remote BigTech job post Covid where the entire loop was remote. But it was customary before then to fly people into the office for the final interview.
Yes I realize “remote first” companies may not have an office. But even then, you could fly the interviewees to the ___location of the interviewer and use a hotel conference room.
Agreed but I suppose the problem then is you could have an interviewer hand off his or her duties to a third party. In theory, regular presence in an office is a mitigation against this.
And as much as I hate to admit it, remote work has so many downsides for most companies, I see why many of them are in on RTO and hybrid.
Luckily in 2020 I pivoted to cloud consulting + app dev where it doesn’t make sense to be in the office since you will either be working with clients remotely or flying into their offices.
And even then AWS forced their ProServe consultants and SAs (full time employees) to be in an office when not on the client’s sites after I had already left. As does GCP.
