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The difference between "in" and "from" is not material when you don't even have to show up to sit in a cubicle.
by m0zg 6y ago
The difference between "in" and "from" is not material when you don't even have to show up to sit in a cubicle.
- 908B64B197 6y agoI meant that a lot of the top talent in Canada is already working in the US. There's a skill gap between top talent in the US and top talent in Canada.
- m0zg 6y agoWell, they may lose their jobs to folks still in Canada then. You can get a seasoned dev in Canada for less money than a fresh grad in San Francisco. If the company switches to be distributed a-la GitLab, there's no reason not to do it. The reason why offshoring nearly always failed in the past is because teams weren't fully distributed/remote. If a company re-tools around distributed, it can operate just fine as long as there aren't any "hallway conversations" remote workers don't have access to.
- 908B64B197 6y ago>The reason why offshoring nearly always failed in the past is because teams weren't fully distributed/remote That's an interesting theory. It doesn't match what I've observed where the offshore team almost always had a skill gap with the on-site team.
- m0zg 6y agoRemember that in this case it'd be "offshoring", not "offshore outsourcing". That is, the company would be able to maintain the hiring bar at that reduced cost.