Two weeks became forever

Remember that ‪time at the beginning of the pandemic when we all said, "we're all going to work from home for two weeks," and now two weeks has become two years, which feels like forever, and it's going to stay like this forever.

This is the percentage of job postings on Hacker News with ‘remote’ as an option.

Like most things Covid-related, the trend was already apparent, but Covid was the accelerant. The percentage of distributed roles/teams may regress over the coming years, but we’re not going back to anywhere close to where we once were.

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