<story><title>Japan&apos;s NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees</title><url>https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/06/3baf3aae9f2f-japans-ntt-to-begin-remote-work-as-norm-for-30000-employees-in-july.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know about NTT, but salaries for software devs are really low in general. Think €30-40k per year. How FAANG are not leveraging such a poorly paid workforce in countries with a great climate, developed, safe, etc, I will never know.</text></item><item><author>DeathArrow</author><text>How bad is pretty bad?</text></item><item><author>permalac</author><text>But if you work for them in Barcelona the salary is still pretty bad.</text></item><item><author>drnonsense42</author><text>If you’re doing a lot of extra hours, not having to commute and getting some peace makes a huge difference in making it sustainable.</text></item><item><author>mkl95</author><text>In Southern Europe NTT is mostly a bodyshop. Their target demographic is junior engineers willing to do unpaid overtime for abysmal pay. Pretty sure remote work doesn&amp;#x27;t make a big difference.</text></item><item><author>samfisher83</author><text>Ntt has 320k employees. I wonder what the other 290 will think?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DeathArrow</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s low.&lt;p&gt;In Romania FAANGs aren&amp;#x27;t paying better salaries than market average, so the only incentive to work for a FAANG is to have it on your CV, stay 2 years and find better employment.&lt;p&gt;FAANGs get it really cheap here as they pay 10x lower wages than in the US.</text></comment>
<story><title>Japan&apos;s NTT to begin remote work as norm for 30k employees</title><url>https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/06/3baf3aae9f2f-japans-ntt-to-begin-remote-work-as-norm-for-30000-employees-in-july.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oblio</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know about NTT, but salaries for software devs are really low in general. Think €30-40k per year. How FAANG are not leveraging such a poorly paid workforce in countries with a great climate, developed, safe, etc, I will never know.</text></item><item><author>DeathArrow</author><text>How bad is pretty bad?</text></item><item><author>permalac</author><text>But if you work for them in Barcelona the salary is still pretty bad.</text></item><item><author>drnonsense42</author><text>If you’re doing a lot of extra hours, not having to commute and getting some peace makes a huge difference in making it sustainable.</text></item><item><author>mkl95</author><text>In Southern Europe NTT is mostly a bodyshop. Their target demographic is junior engineers willing to do unpaid overtime for abysmal pay. Pretty sure remote work doesn&amp;#x27;t make a big difference.</text></item><item><author>samfisher83</author><text>Ntt has 320k employees. I wonder what the other 290 will think?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ben_w</author><text>I think the sort of person FAANG wants to hire, knows how much they can get from moving and has either already relocated or found remote work.</text></comment>