And I think that quite plausibly there should be something similar in character which is *not* city-based, because literally every city reimplementing this is wasteful, but that's the employment regulation / tax collection landscape we currently have and switching might be hard.
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I tried this a little in the last city I lived in, while working remotely. The local tech businesses didn’t have much incentive to back it — they’d be competing with SF companies for talent — and without their support it wasn’t going anywhere.
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Smaller cities have more incentive to do this (Vermont, Tulsa) because nobody will consider them on first reference, not sure the benefit for a mega city, even once you get past the insane barriers to developing such a scheme
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I get where you’re coming from but it would be politically intractable here to invest in remote workers while there’s such disinvestment in local workforce. Local context matters a lot, particularly in government and policymaking. Not disagreeing with the general principle though
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Does Chicago have public internet infrastructure? That would be #2 on my list of ways to grab workers from other areas.
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Nope. Initiatives like this have been silently squashed.
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I'm not aware of the details, but this is being pushed in Germany. I can do "mobile office" a few days a week if my supervisor approves. I believe there is some federal or regional incentive.
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