The Covid-19 pandemic and work-from-home policies have resulted in a wave of nomadic working professionals who have ditched their apartments for Airbnbs.
I did IT consulting and luckily never had to go that far, although I knew plenty who did. You just were put on the job and if they wanted you there onsite 5x a week in a city 1/2 way across the county for 6 months that’s what you did. The project I was in the same metro and I worked out of the house half of the time. The other half they would pay for a car rental just so I could go onsite, say hi to a few people, and do the same job that I was doing from home. The amount of waste just for “facetime” and to make someone higher up feel good about the fees they are paying is staggering.
I knew one person who had an apartment right in downtown but he basically didn’t live in it for a whole year. He flew out to the client Sunday nights and flew back Thursday nights (and had to still work on Friday of course lol).
I did IT consulting and luckily never had to go that far, although I knew plenty who did. You just were put on the job and if they wanted you there onsite 5x a week in a city 1/2 way across the county for 6 months that’s what you did. The project I was in the same metro and I worked out of the house half of the time. The other half they would pay for a car rental just so I could go onsite, say hi to a few people, and do the same job that I was doing from home. The amount of waste just for “facetime” and to make someone higher up feel good about the fees they are paying is staggering.
I knew one person who had an apartment right in downtown but he basically didn’t live in it for a whole year. He flew out to the client Sunday nights and flew back Thursday nights (and had to still work on Friday of course lol).