Anyone starting to feel like 'remote' in a job posting is just to lure people in? Applied for a copywriter role that was remote except one day a week in the office (which is near enough to me).

During a phone interview today was a HR assistant, she swore it never said remote and the location was somewhere totally different than advertised.

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Ugh, yes! What I have learned is that "hybrid" actually means "you are in the office 99% of the time, but we may let you work from home if you're sick." I really don't get why companies are so obsessed with working from the office when almost everyone would be happier, and more productive working from home.

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There's definitely a widespread desire to find remote positions, so companies probably are putting that into job postings just as a bait and switch. If you talked to someone from the company and they denied using the word remote at all, that's pretty strange. Some of these outfits seem to copy and paste their job postings, so it's possible they're not even paying attention to what they're putting out there.

I suspect this. I have seen job postings with 3 or 4 locations in that are clearly Frankenstein postings copy and pastied from a few different adverts over the years.

Yep, I’ve noticed this too! “Remote” often means sort of remote now. I’ve had a few roles where remote magically turned into “hybrid with flexibility”… and then not so flexible after week one.

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