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83% of Engineers Want Remote Work Post-Pandemic
January 29, 2021
The pandemic has resulted in a major shift in software engineers, with 8 in 10 wanting remote or hybrid work options post-pandemic.
Terminal conducted a survey of 1,108 software engineers. The respondents were primarily from Canada, Mexico and Latin America, although also included ones from the US, Europe and Asia.
According to the survey, 80% of engineers want remote work anywhere from 60 to 100% of the time post-pandemic. 83% of respondents said they wanted some kind of hybrid option, allowing them to work from both home and office.
“The rise of the remote work movement, fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic’s stay-at-home orders, has established a new era of engineer expectations,” said Clay Kellogg, CEO of Terminal. “Our findings show that overall, engineers love the flexibility and benefits that remote work offers and aren’t going back to the old ways. Business leaders risk widening the tech talent shortag
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Terminal, a company that builds world-class remote engineering teams for high growth tech companies, today announced the findings of The State of Remote Engineering: The 2021 Edition. The research, commissioned by Terminal, aims to benchmark and uncover the perspectives of engineers in the United States, Canada and Latin America – with an aim to deliver leaders insights on how to recruit and build high-performing engineering teams.
The report highlighted the seismic shift of 86% of software engineers now working entirely remote, compared to only 19% of engineers prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and its effects: