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> Eastern Europe Eastern Europe is not a great example of productivity either. I can totally understand why employees from poorer countries disappear all the
by heavenlyblue 6y ago
> Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is not a great example of productivity either.
I can totally understand why employees from poorer countries disappear all the time - why wouldn't they? They know they're getting paid peanuts in your country (so you don't expect much) and you're paying them an incredibly competitive salary in their own country (which means their lifestyle is closer to upper middle class).
Which means they can piggy-back off your seemingly efficient decisions and get away with doing less.
- pdimitar 6y agoWell, that's a kind of a rude generalisation. :) Or maybe I read you wrong. You should know there's a lot of world-class talent around here. Sure there's tons of slackers but I posit that's true everywhere (maybe they can't squeeze through the cracks in the USA? but they still exist).
- heavenlyblue 6y agoThere’s in Africa too. But you would be paying them the same amount (or well, maybe 70% that?) if you wanted the same output.
- pdimitar 6y agoSure, I don't see anything wrong with that. To me nationality bears almost zero correlation to productivity and this has been anecdotally proven throughout 18.5y of career.
- heavenlyblue 6y agoThe basic strategy is this: if I can work lazily at 20% the output and get a middle-class lifestyle at 80% my salary. Why would I bother to be better if the only companies from the west are here to cheap out on talent? I can always go work for a new “revolutionary” company that is trying to outsource their talent and barely do any work all over again.
- pdimitar 6y agoThere definitely do exist such people, can't deny reality here. But again, this happens everywhere and is hardly exclusive to Eastern Europe -- at least I've met slackers and seat-warmers of 7+ different nationalities over the course of my career.