Job Candidate Accepts Offer and Resigns From Current Role, Only To Discover the New Position Is Hybrid and the Office Is 47 Miles Away

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
May 30, 2026 8:00 AM EDT

How could this recruiter have failed to mention the fact that this allegedly remote job was actually not remote at all?

In this day and age, plenty of job candidates are looking for fully remote opportunities where it makes sense. There is a reason why many job seekers filter their searches to only include remote opportunities. However, it should come as no surprise that recruiters and hiring managers are not exactly telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth on their job postings.

This candidate, who shared his recent experiences regarding this unfortunate trend on the r/remotework subreddit, ended up getting the short end of the stick after undergoing five rounds of interviews. It was only until after he accepted the role and put in his notice at his current company that he learned he would have to commute to an office three days a week. Oh, did we mention that office was 47 miles away?

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  • A model wears professional attire on top and casual clothes on the bottom while interviewing for a remote job where only the top half of his body is shown.
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    A model wears professional attire on top and casual clothes on the bottom while interviewing for a remote job where only the top half of his body is shown.

  • Applied to a "remote" job, went through five rounds of interviews, got the offer. Nobody mentioned an office once. Now they're saying it's 3 days a week onsite and I genuinely don't know what to do.

    I've been job searching for about four months. Found this posting in February, it was listed as fully remote, the job title had Remote in parentheses, and every single conversation I had during the process was on video. First
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  • screening call with HR, then a technical assessment, then a panel with four people from the team, then a final conversation with the director. Five separate interactions over six weeks. I asked about the team structure,
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  • the tools they use, how async communication works. At no point did anyone say anything about an office. I assumed there wasn't one.
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  • What was this recruiter thinking?

    Well, not only is there a trend where more and more job candidates are looking for remote opportunities, but in tandem with that is another trend where more and more hiring managers are listing their open positions as “remote” when they are, in fact, only hybrid. 

    What's most concerning is that even if these guys thought they could convince this candidate to come into the office in-person, wouldn't they consider picking a candidate who at least lived nearby? It's hard to imagine convincing someone who lives 47 miles away from the office to start coming in after they were falsely advertised. 

    It just seems like if these guys were really going to commit to being vague and shady, they should have at least thought this through and picked candidates who were more likely to be convinced due to proximity alone. 

  • Got the offer two weeks ago. Signed and returned it the same day because I'd been searching for a while and was genuinely excited about the role. Gave notice at my current job on Monday. Tuesday I got an email from HR with onboarding details,
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  • and buried in paragraph six of a seven paragraph email was a line. about "our hybrid schedule" which is described as three days per week at their headquarters.
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  • Their headquarters is in a city 47 miles from where I live. I had specifically filtered my job search to remote only. I moved to where I currently live eight months ago partly because I thought I'd secured a remote setup long term.
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    A representation of a man in professional garb above his waist sitting on a couch as he takes a remote Zoom call.

  • I called the recruiter immediately. She was very pleasant about it and said she was sorry for any confusion and that the role was always intended to be hybrid but that they list positions as remote to reach more candidates. I asked
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  • if there was any flexibility given that I'd already resigned. She said she'd escalate it. That was four days ago and I've heard nothing. I've sent two follow up
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  • emails. I have a start date in twelve days. I have no idea if I should show up, keep pushing, consult someone, or accept that I made a very expensive mistake
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  • by not asking more explicitly. If anyone has been through something like this I would really appreciate knowing how it went.
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    A subject dressed as a corporate recruiter reads a resume. 

  • Marzipan_civil ⚫ Location should have been included in your offer. I suppose you have two main options: ask your current job if you can stay, or push new job to allow fully remote since that was what was advertised.
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  • My current job is hybrid, but some people are in the office a lot less than others.
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    A reenactment of two businessmen shaking hands across a table in an office environment.

  • cateri44. If you listed a Harvard MBA that you didn't have "for visibility" they would fire you the minute they found out you didn't really have it. This is despicable.
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