Why remote roles are becoming extinct in 2026?

AI can handle most remote works. I think company are tend to hire people who can perform physical works now.

I work in tech diligence so I speak to software companies all the time, from startups to $5B transactions. In "normal" companies, remote jobs are still very common. Can't speak to teach giants and their decisions, which rarely have anything to do with actually developing software though

I don't see it.

I think this is a misconception brought by the COVID19 times when remote work went mainstream because of lockdowns. And now there is a big expectation for work to be remote. Just started look for a remote job, I see the same percentage of remote-first or remote-friendly companies as before. Which is a small percent, but not zero.

On the opposite - the hybrid work became more normalized this days.

It's my impression that many of the roles that were previously "remote from anywhere in the world" are being replaced with either 1) a current employee using AI to be more productive or 2) a remote/partially remote job with the requirement to be in the same country/economic zone.

The more a role is able to be remote, the more it can be easily automated with AI, thus AI is eating remote roles.

As a software engineer in western Europe: I still see plenty of (100%) remote roles available. When I say plenty I mean that there’s enough for me to pick up one and try my luck.

But also I usually work for companies that have a branch in the country I live in

Had the same experience. I spent about half a year looking for a remote role before joining my current company and couldn’t land one. My guess is AI is a big factor: the work that can be done remotely is mostly the work AI is making more efficient, they only need to spend bulk of dollars per month to "employ" a group of AI agents, so there are fewer openings and far more applicants per role.

I think remote roles are still out there, I see them. Sometimes the roles you may be looking for might have different titles. You might do a google search and see if some titles are changed or adjusted. Good luck with your search.

You could check out the Jobs module or remote work platforms.

lot of jobs... depends who you are

the challange is often you need to "Know someone" I got my last job tthough friends

It’s not just you. Remote jobs aren’t dead, but work from anywhere roles have become much rarer.

OBBBA act made hiring non-US people for dev role virtually impossible from tax standpoint. Plus there are too many "overemployment" scammers and employers woke up to that.

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