Others have lost their job as the company is struggling to pay their salary. They’re hoping to find a remote job to work from home. There are people whose work involves some large groups of people, like theater artists, and they’re living from their savings. But most are looking for a remote job, and many of them are struggling with COVID-19 consequences recently. Some are managers from remote companies and they are setting up their profile. I’ve set up this automated email that asks people to tell me something about themselves, like what they do and how my website can help them.Īround 20% answer. And there are probably more companies who were forced to stay at home and will continue to work and hire remotely. There’s maybe a slight decrease in new job posts, but it didn’t drop a lot when the world went to a lockdown. WWR data doesn't include every category, only the most popular (programming, design, marketing and support). Data is based on public RSS files from these job boards. Well of course we don’t know what the effect will be in the long term, so we can only see what’s happening right now.īut I’ve been looking at remote jobs posted on the most popular job boards, and currently I don’t see much change other than this weird jump on Stack Overflow a few weeks back. COVID-19's effect on new remote jobsĪnd now this coronavirus! Are companies hiring at all? A lot of people want to work remotely for its benefits like working from home on a flexible schedule. When you're hiring remotely, the talent pool is so much bigger than for office jobs. That seems like a crazy competition.Īnd it makes sense. They received 13,730 remote job applications in one year and hired 18 people (0.13%). Their employees work from almost 30 countries across the globe. Take Doist, for example – an all-remote company behind the popular productivity apps Todoist and Twist. The fact is, there are probably hundreds of people applying from all over the world for the same position. And yes, it can be super hard to get a remote job. While building RemoteHub, I've been talking to a lot of remote company managers about how they hire remotely. I’m a solo developer bootstrapping RemoteHub – a place to discover the best remote jobs and learn about remote work from the leading distributed teams.
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