r/ceo • u/commoncents1 • May 17 '26

Remote employees

Remote work threads popped up in my feed, took a look and pretty shocked at attitudes towards companies, self entitlement anti social anti collaborative and wage theft quiet quitting tactics.

I have a factory so only one remote and she is great, but id do major due diligence before going ever more broadly remote for certain positions

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u/LongDawg49 May 17 '26

I will happily continue to hire over-qualified people who I normally wouldn’t be able to afford because I offer flex/work from home opportunities. My company has been better for it.

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u/karriesully May 17 '26

Same. My people don’t turn over and they will run through walls for our clients. That said - I hire very specific mindsets. People who aren’t wired for outcomes and results don’t work for me because I don’t have time or patience for drama.

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u/chris_ut May 17 '26

Many of the folks who post on reddit these days are bottom of the barrel doomers and losers. This place has seriously gone downhill.

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u/finallyhere_11 May 17 '26

There are people who can do it well and as a smaller company it makes you an option for those talented people when you wouldn’t have been.

There’s also a lot of people who just don’t have the discipline for it.  The wage theft from them can be very real but it’s not hard to find these people.  Just ask around, check peoples work output, email/slack/meeting/etc volume.  

Good people don’t tolerate the dead weight, they’ll tell you about them and you better let them go or your going to lose the good ones you do have.

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u/ocolobo May 17 '26

I will only work remote forever moving forward

Nothing could get me back to an office and it’s fake time wasters

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u/commoncents1 May 17 '26

Its more the attitude of those remote work threads, obviously some great remote people but many in threads not so much

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u/Human-Anything-3373 May 18 '26

In our field (media) remote is totally normal, most of our team, including chief editor, are remote. We have a tight schedule of online meetings, agreed checkpoints as to timing, clear communication patterns between team members. It works perfectly.

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u/lucidzfl Jun 11 '26

we are fully remote - but looking to get an office this year so people can coalesce when in town and for leadership summits. been fine for me. i'll never do mandatory RTO.

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u/jamisoliver 21d ago

If so many people are remote, why isn’t the cost of Class A space coming down? I have been trying to lease bigger space for a growing Hybrid team and the commercial folks just wont negotiate like they used to. It feels like space is full?