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Fair point (and agree on the changes proposed) but this won’t matter anymore in the next few years. Most of the Indian outsourcing companies are going to allow

Fair point (and agree on the changes proposed) but this won’t matter anymore in the next few years. Most of the Indian outsourcing companies are going to allow their workforce to be wfh. (Eg TCS is doing that to 80% of its workforce in India). In way you don’t need to be in Bay Area anymore if you can do the same work in Montana or Madhya Pradesh. Yes time zones etc matter remote productivity will rise from what it has been so far. What will matter now is what you can deliver not necessarily where you are. I am not saying former will be the only thing that matters but it will matter more than the latter in tech software jobs. In way this is just capitalism doing its thing - businesses will get more efficient as soon as the opportunity arises. If they don’t they won’t survive as they They won’t be able to compete. Unless you are a monopoly which most business are not specially in a saturated market You will need to be cost efficient. WFH allow some parts of your businesses to be so. Update: I see I got downvoted not sure why but in any case this is the way world will most likely progress whether you like it or not or whether it’s fair or not. I say a lot more about this when I called the wfh being the norm before twitters and facebooks wfh announcement https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22558552 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22558552

slaymaker1907 6y ago
Notice that there is 0 overlap between in the 9-5 time period between India and the US. Time zone problems like that are extreme and difficult to work with (I worked nearly a year in the US where the other half of the team was in India). I had to start work much earlier than I would have liked and they had to work late into the evening.
- throwaway2678 6y ago
  What if "you" were not in the picture. I am assuming you are cutting out the work for offshore resources, presumably due to your role as a engineering manager or business liaison. When your company realizes they can be get the work done offshore cheaper (with or without "you" in the picture) they will find a way.

slaymaker1907 6y ago

Notice that there is 0 overlap between in the 9-5 time period between India and the US. Time zone problems like that are extreme and difficult to work with (I worked nearly a year in the US where the other half of the team was in India). I had to start work much earlier than I would have liked and they had to work late into the evening.

throwaway2678 6y ago
What if "you" were not in the picture. I am assuming you are cutting out the work for offshore resources, presumably due to your role as a engineering manager or business liaison. When your company realizes they can be get the work done offshore cheaper (with or without "you" in the picture) they will find a way.