Unless like me you live 8h travel by road away, and there are no reasonable flights, to the nearest office.
I made a decision long ago. Either a job is remote (I apply) in which case it has to really be remote. Or it is hybrid(I don't apply). If there is a day in a week/month/year that you're required to visit it is no longer 100% remote. This especially applies if it requires international travel, doubly so to certain places that make such travel even a bigger hassle than it needs to be (I didn't think US will be on this list in my lifetime, but here we are).
Perhaps I'm just annoyed it is very common in this job market (at least when I looked last ~2 years ago) to advertise 100% remote jobs, have 3 interviews during which you're assured "yes,100% remote" and then either get a contract that has provisions allowing for it to be revoked, or even being told verbally, or not even being told, but pressured as time goes by, no actually you're expected to visit. I had a client like this once. Otherwise a good job. The manager of my team got constantly a lot of crap that his people are "never in" despite the company hiring the whole team as a remote.
There are plenty of people in business that would love that whole remote thing to dissappear. It starts with "come to the office once a month for a night out, we'll pay for your hotel", then it's just "come to the office once a month", then it's 2 weeks, 1 week, then it's 3 days a week, and then it's just Friday you work from home, but no one actually works on that day, but you so you're blocked on most of what you do.
Who are these people? Managers that never learned how to manage remote teams, HR that worries their dept will be cut down, branch/country directors that can't show the visiting "leadership" an office buzzing with activity, and that guy who decided it's a good idea to buy a huge office building in the city centre a month before covid started (I've already worked fully remote for 3 years before covid started, but it was just me and another guy in a team of 9, now it is much better when the entire team is remote, there is no "us and them").
Sorry, just as luditites wanted to go to the power of muscle from the power of steam, there is no going back. The advantages to everyone are too great. To the employee, don't have to explain I hope, to the employer, lower cost and much bigger hiring market, to the entire world there is less travel and entire generations of people not wasting 20% of their waking hours on travel...
I made a decision long ago. Either a job is remote (I apply) in which case it has to really be remote. Or it is hybrid(I don't apply). If there is a day in a week/month/year that you're required to visit it is no longer 100% remote. This especially applies if it requires international travel, doubly so to certain places that make such travel even a bigger hassle than it needs to be (I didn't think US will be on this list in my lifetime, but here we are).
Perhaps I'm just annoyed it is very common in this job market (at least when I looked last ~2 years ago) to advertise 100% remote jobs, have 3 interviews during which you're assured "yes,100% remote" and then either get a contract that has provisions allowing for it to be revoked, or even being told verbally, or not even being told, but pressured as time goes by, no actually you're expected to visit. I had a client like this once. Otherwise a good job. The manager of my team got constantly a lot of crap that his people are "never in" despite the company hiring the whole team as a remote.
There are plenty of people in business that would love that whole remote thing to dissappear. It starts with "come to the office once a month for a night out, we'll pay for your hotel", then it's just "come to the office once a month", then it's 2 weeks, 1 week, then it's 3 days a week, and then it's just Friday you work from home, but no one actually works on that day, but you so you're blocked on most of what you do.
Who are these people? Managers that never learned how to manage remote teams, HR that worries their dept will be cut down, branch/country directors that can't show the visiting "leadership" an office buzzing with activity, and that guy who decided it's a good idea to buy a huge office building in the city centre a month before covid started (I've already worked fully remote for 3 years before covid started, but it was just me and another guy in a team of 9, now it is much better when the entire team is remote, there is no "us and them").
Sorry, just as luditites wanted to go to the power of muscle from the power of steam, there is no going back. The advantages to everyone are too great. To the employee, don't have to explain I hope, to the employer, lower cost and much bigger hiring market, to the entire world there is less travel and entire generations of people not wasting 20% of their waking hours on travel...