Hello, everyone.
I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learners Featured Post. Every day, I am grateful for technology because it has given us options, options our parents never had. Technology has offered us what our parents never had on a platter of gold. During the time of our parents, it was either a job where you were present in person or you were jobless. There was no in-between. Either you had a job where you showed up at least five times a week, or you didn't have any. But today, technology has given us options to choose from. Today, we can be at home like we are jobless while making more money than those who leave their houses every day to their places of work.
Remote jobs are now the new trend. Everybody has seen the comfort that comes with working remotely and has turned to it with the speed of light. Nine out of every ten people you meet now want to work remotely. The outside world is chaotic, and one of the ways to escape our chaotic world is by working remotely. That way, you only come out when needed and when it becomes unavoidable. With remote jobs, we can decide when we want to step out of our rooms, and if we don't want to, we can stay indoors all day and no one will question us.
Trust me, working on-site is something we all want to avoid, especially when we work with toxic people or under a toxic boss. On-site jobs are not all bad, but they don't come with a lot of flexibility like working remotely does. When you work remotely, you can be indoors all day and no one queries you. But when you work on-site and you are not seen in the office or you are a few minutes late, you will definitely have to answer for being late or absent, and if your reasons are not valid enough, then you have a problem. As much as we all love working remotely and are all turning to it and enjoying it, it is only a matter of time before things go south.
Slowly, the remote job space is becoming oversaturated. Everyone now wants to work remotely, and slowly, working remotely is starting to lose its value. Those in the space are no longer regarded as much as they used to be because those who offer these jobs now know that they have options. Unlike when working remotely started, if you fail to take their offer, they can simply turn to someone else, and they will eventually accept the offer you rejected. For that reason, many remote workers go months without any gig, while some are forced to settle for less since they already understand that the space is overly saturated.
In the long run, I think we will have more on-site jobs with no one to take them while we fight for gigs online. It is only a matter of time before we start running each other over to stay in the remote job space while there are vacancies for on-site jobs. But since we all want to work remotely, we will not want to take them and will instead prefer to fight over the few opportunities offered online. While we fight to work and get remote jobs, the value of remote workers diminishes, and over time, remote jobs will not be awarded any value at all. We need to have people willing to take on-site jobs and balance the scale, as we cannot all be remote workers.
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