50 miles is a lot. That can easily be 2h in most big cities.

To do what exactly? Sit in an open office in Redmond, jump on Teams to call with someone in Fort Lauderdale?

Funny thing, I had multiple interviews with them on explicit remote roles (which are different from roles that went remote during COVID). I wonder if the policy changes there.

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doom2 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

I live about 100 miles from NYC, which is 2-2.5 hours by car but only 1.5 hours by train. I think that that would be considered an acceptable commute time for companies with a hybrid work plan. However, every time I ask recruiters from NYC-based companies if their commute subsidy would cover the train, I get told employees have to live within a 50 mile radius of the office. Like you said, that could be 2 hours by car! For the right salary and benefits, I'd happily spend 3 hours a day on a train. At least I wouldn't be driving.

	▲	nickjj 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah it's weird. I was just over 50 miles from NYC at some point. A place I worked remotely at was having a small team get together and they asked me to join. Given it's a ~2 hour journey from door to office (car + train + walk) I asked if I could leave early so I didn't have to put in a ~13-14 hour day. They said no, I had to work a full 9-6 day or use a PTO day. Meanwhile they flew a few people in from around the US and put them in a hotel. That was a principle level role where I survived multiple rounds of layoffs so it wasn't like I was treated poorly. It's just the company wouldn't budge on their policies.
	▲	ghaff 5 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I grudgingly did it for a while to Boston. And yes, it was something like $50/day to commute however I did it. It got old even on the train even though I didn't need to go in every day. Wouldn't have done it long-term.
	▲	devnullbrain 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Agreed, it's hard to understand how much easier commuting by train is until you've done it. YMMV if your local service sucks.

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geodel 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> To do what exactly?

To stay employed at Microsoft. After all many may want that some may not.