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If your company believes you can telecommute, it's not a small step for them to eventually believe that you can be outsourced more inexpensively.
by ComradeTaco 8y ago
If your company believes you can telecommute, it's not a small step for them to eventually believe that you can be outsourced more inexpensively.
- guntars 8y agoIf being able to work for any company remotely means I have to compete with the whole world, I’m ok with it.
- ComradeTaco 8y agoWould you be willing to compete wage wise? It's completely possible to find programmers that speak English for single digit hourly wages.
- guntars 8y agoI wouldn't be competing with the single digit programmers, but yes. Geography still matters for remote employees (due to time zones and the need for an occasional face time) as does the level of English and obviously the level of experience. The pool of people that fit that description isn't so large that I would have to work for minimum wage from the comfort of my mountain cabin.
- senseamp 8y agoYou either can be outsourced inexpensively, or you can't. If you can, but your physical presence in a Bay Area office is effective in stopping your employer from figuring it out, then you should probably stay here.