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I’ve seen some contracting firms do domestic “ruralshoring,” but IMO recruitment costs become controlling due to the lower density of talent and general difficu

I’ve seen some contracting firms do domestic “ruralshoring,” but IMO recruitment costs become controlling due to the lower density of talent and general difficulty with remote management as a practice. The common approach is to concentrate on small university towns that have a young CS talent pool — similar to Epic’s hiring approach — but eventually your talent moves to urban areas for culture/amenity/economy reasons, so you end up with a predominantly young remote workforce, which brings its own managerial issues.

AckSyn 8y ago
I've worked with a significant number of remote workers (some part time and some full) and these remote management policies people keep talking about not being there or "standard" makes me think they're making a mountain out of a molehill. Giving people deadlines and incremental check-ins ala milestones for projects or other work that they eventually have to show or "turn in" is all it is. Easier said than done, certainly, but if you can quantify the person's work on prem, remote isn't that difficult to manage.