They attempt to answer "How will this affect the average tech worker?" ... with ... "In June, Google told rank-and-file employees it would reduce the pay of those who choose to work remotely or move farther from the office." and they then say "Should this worry the most in-demand engineers and product management? Probably not."
They finish with "But in the long term, remote work’s promise is more ambivalent." which seems like about the only real thing we can all agree on. We'll know how this all shakes out in maybe 5 or 10 years?
What was pretty interesting, and something I've never heard before was "some Peloton instructors earned more than $500,000".
>What was pretty interesting, and something I've never heard before was "some Peloton instructors earned more than $500,000".
It's not really new in that you had doubtless well-paid "personalities" who had workout shows on TV forever. It just stands to reason that with mass broadcast, the money flows to a relatively small number of popular people rather than a large number of fairly modestly paid people teaching small classes in local studios.
Though I suspect that a lot of this current phenomenon is out of necessity rather than preference from the perspective of participants.
Google is a really bad point of normalization for remote work metrics. Google has consistently emphasized working together in offices as a central strategy and has spent vast amounts on physical facilities and also transportation infrastructure such as their own bus lines in order to support all of this. Even other large companies cannot compete with this level of emphasis on office space.
How many is "Some", because the article makes it sound like it's a career option for all fitness people. It sounds like it is as rare as being a TV fitness person
They attempt to answer "How will this affect the average tech worker?" ... with ... "In June, Google told rank-and-file employees it would reduce the pay of those who choose to work remotely or move farther from the office." and they then say "Should this worry the most in-demand engineers and product management? Probably not."
They finish with "But in the long term, remote work’s promise is more ambivalent." which seems like about the only real thing we can all agree on. We'll know how this all shakes out in maybe 5 or 10 years?
What was pretty interesting, and something I've never heard before was "some Peloton instructors earned more than $500,000".