Ford

• The pay isn't the worst pay out there.
• They seem to have been bullied into letting everyone stay remote.
• The "prestige" (if you're into that).

Work-life balance on my team is abysmal. People frequently work at all hours of the day and night. Pager duty is absolutely awful, and you are not compensated for it at all. There are no project managers, so everyone is running around doing things haphazardly. They decide to push out things late at night and then drag everyone who has ever even remotely worked on that project onto a call. Some places I've worked, they offer to "comp" your time and have you not come in the next morning. Here, they expect you to work until you drop. It's absolutely awful.

Stop making your workers' lives miserable.

Listen to your software engineers, or at least ask them what they think and take that into consideration.