"Zoom, a Silicon Valley-based company, appears to own three companies in China through which at least 700 employees are paid to develop Zoom’s software. This ar

"Zoom, a Silicon Valley-based company, appears to own three companies in China through which at least 700 employees are paid to develop Zoom’s software. This arrangement is ostensibly an effort at labor arbitrage: Zoom can avoid paying US wages while selling to US customers, thus increasing their profit margin. However, this arrangement may make Zoom responsive to pressure from Chinese authorities." I'm not here to defend zoom but any and all companies that can do this have and are doing the very same thing to minimize costs. It's not great but it's the expected way of managing a software company in 2020. It would be hard to do business otherwise. Whether it's good or bad that's a question that will need to be reexamined given the current situation.