IT companies that switched to remote mode during the pandemic are starting to introduce a return-to-office policy

A decrease in the number of advertisements offering remote work – this is the main conclusion of the report published by a website specializing in mediation for specialists working in the industry. In the first quarter of 2022, the share of advertisements with the possibility of remote work on the No Fluff Jobs portal was 70.7%, and then began to gradually decrease: at the end of the year (Q4) it fell to 64.3%, and in the first quarter of 2023 only 61.3 percent advertisements offered work from home. In the first quarter of 2022, stationary work appeared in 23.9 percent. advertisements, and a year later – in every fourth offer (24.3%). On the other hand, the hybrid mode increased its share from 5.3% to 5.3% during the year. to 14.3 percent

The trend of switching from remote work to stationary or hybrid work is already clearly visible overseas. Companies that switched to remote mode during the pandemic are starting to introduce a return-to-office policy, including: about players like Twitter, Snap, Disney and Apple

– comments Tomasz Bujok, CEO at No Fluff Jobs.

– At the same time, we see that the trend “given with new oil” continues, because in times of layoffs and the so-called “hiring freeze” categories that saw the biggest increase in the number of ads were those related to data. We are also seeing a slowly coming stabilization. The number of offers for programmers(s) is not increasing as rapidly as it was during the pandemic, which does not change the fact that the staffing gap is still huge, and offers for people dealing with coding still constitute the largest group of offers posted on the portal No Fluff Jobs, he adds.

Wages in the IT industry are getting higher and higher

The data also shows that the IT industry continues to record salary increases. In the first quarter of 2022, IT specialists with a B2B contract could earn from PLN 15,000 to PLN 21,000. PLN net + VAT, and in the same period in 2023 from PLN 16.8 to PLN 23.6 net + VAT. At the same time, there was a significant decrease in offers with the option of remote work – in the first quarter of 2022 it was 70 percent, and in 2023 it is already 61 percent. No Fluff Jobs publishes a summary of the first quarter of 2023 in the IT industry.

No Fluff Jobs – a portal with advertisements for the IT industry available in 6 countries and 8 languages, which is the first and only one that requires the publication of salary ranges in every job offer.