Why are job adverts misleading about WFH?

Question

I'm trying to find a proper list of WFH (Work from Home) jobs, specifically in Australia.I think it's misleading to have an option for "Location" as "Work from Home" then allow ads that don't fit this description.I've used https://seek.com.au however I'm finding that it's increasingly normal for employers to advertise their jobs as "Hybrid WFH" with some being as bad as 1-day per week out of the office.If I wanted a "Hybrid WFH" selection, I would happily choose that.It's like these companies think gaming the system will magically stop employees from reading job adverts.Personally I'm just doing it out of curiosity - I've been in a WFH role for a while now and think a hybrid option might be better overall for mental / physical health but I'm still annoyed at this weird culture of false-advertising roles to find candidates.Discuss?

dakiol · Accepted Answer

In my experience these kind of companies attract either juniors or people who cannot afford to work for a 100% remote company (because they cannot pass the interview). It&rsquo;s like the Nigerian prince scam: the emails are written badly on purpose because they are targeted to those people who won&rsquo;t realise about the nature of the scam.

illwrks · Answer

Depending on the company, if they are relatively large employer their recruitment system may be a limiting factor.The other issue might be budget, again if the company is large budgets may be aligned to a spec or team location or hub. At this point in time a role might be 100% WFH but also for team f2f meetings/gatherings etc it might be more difficult to organise if WFH is across a large country instead of a city and its satellite towns.

fuzzfactor · Answer

>It's like these companies think gaming the system will magically stop employees from reading job adverts.OTOH, they might want you to read loads of them until you are blue in the face and see how unlikely it is :(

sjhaba · Answer

It's really a matter of "sales funnel". If they put "remote", more people will click on the job listing and they will get more applicants

langcss · Answer

I suspect the blame lies with Seek not wanting to have an embarrassing short list of full WFH jobs show up so they include hybrid.