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It's not going to be completely equalized, even if everyone goes remote. - When working in a team, timezones matter - Labor laws also matter, and a company ne
by eloisant 6y ago
It's not going to be completely equalized, even if everyone goes remote.
- When working in a team, timezones matter
- Labor laws also matter, and a company needs to do some paperwork before hiring workers in a new country
- Companies are still going to hire workers with similar skills to their employees, so Big Tech and Silicon Valley companies are not going to suddenly hire people who only have experience working at outsourcing companies
- DangerousPie 6y agoTimezones matter, but parts of Latin America are in the same time zone as the US and parts of Africa are in the time zone as the EU. Paperwork and laws matter as well, but if you can save 75% of your salary spending you'll deal with that. Big tech and SV hire people straight out of university, don't they? What's the difference between hiring an MIT grad that stayed in the US and hiring an MIT grad that moved back to their home country?
- eloisant 6y agoExcept for the 2nd point (labor law), MIT grad that moved back to their home country would work, but most people in Latin America and Africa graduated from local university that are not as good as US or European universities (or at least not recognized as such). So this is not going to create a big equalizer.