No shit, I have been saying this for years. I am willing to take lower pay to not put up with the bullshit of having to commute to a office every day for "forced socialization". I can live where ever I want where things are more affordable while not wasting between 1-3 hours per work day just driving to and from a office where I attempt to ignore every single person there as much as possible. Archive: https://archive.today/Gb5PN From the post: >>U.S. tech workers are rejecting in-office job offers in favor of much less lucrative remote positions at other companies, according to research published by the American Economic Association. The findings suggest job seekers in the U.S. tech sector are willing to accept an average 25.6% less in pay for partly or fully remote jobs, a discount three to five times bigger than previous studies estimated. However, it appears many employers don’t see remote work as a serious employee benefit, the study continues. In a sample of tech jobs, remote positions paid on average slightly more than those for identical in-office positions, according to findings by Harvard’s Zoe B. Cullen, UCLA Anderson’s Ricardo Perez-Truglia and Brown’s Bobak Pakzad-Hurson.