• maness300@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I know this might sound weird, but does a “paper” like the onion really need to be based in new york?

    Why can’t all their workers be remote? $88k/year is still a fuckton of money in most parts of the world. If they choose to locate in expensive areas, then they have to pay the price for that decision.

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      11 months ago

      That was way back in the early 2000s; they’ve been gone from New York since 2012 and aren now in Chicago. Looking at the history in Wikipedi, it looks as though there was a first-look media tie up with Miramax that didn’t go anywhere.

      why can’t all workers be remote?

      I’m in development, and post-Covid we still have our remote workers and an empty office building (or four around Europe) that we are bound by lease contracts. Just because someone wants to work at home doesn’t mean the established office costs to the company doesn’t exist. We’re trying to get out of several of those contracts now, but it’s taking years.