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It's a good idea, but it misses something very important. The last company I worked at I was one of 6 developers in the US. The rest of the developers was a te
by coding123 6y ago
It's a good idea, but it misses something very important.
The last company I worked at I was one of 6 developers in the US. The rest of the developers was a team in Pakistan - 30 to 50 employees. The 6 employees were paid about the same as the 30-50 in Pakistan (combined).
So before I would support this, I would support the US making remote technical work illegal without also increasing that pay to match the equivalent pay in the US.
- nrmitchi 6y agoYou want the US government to step in and start dictating to companies what it pays employees in different countries? If that happened, there is an almost-0% chance you get the outcome you want (which seems to be the staff in Pakistan getting paid more).
- coding123 6y agoWe'll let's take a step back just to start here - a company in the US that makes some dashboard widgets for a hospital chain. The hospital chain pays this company lets say $1M per year. Half of this money goes directly to people in Pakistan that are "employees" of the company. The other half goes to US citizens. So overall, things aren't so great. We've just contributed $1/2M per year to a country that's let's face it - has a history of supporting terrorism. I want that kind of outsourcing to stop. I mean, what amazing things can come from that scenario? Maybe my original comment didn't capture it, but I would rather force the these remote style companies to not really have that giant pay advantage. I mean what do you think is the total combined amount of dollars leaving the United States per year because of relationships like this.