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And so begins the race to the bottom. It's just a few days in the office now but in time workers will be given complete control over where they work.
by someelephant 5y ago
And so begins the race to the bottom. It's just a few days in the office now but in time workers will be given complete control over where they work.
- PunchTornado 5y agoIf you can do your job from anywhere, somebody from anywhere can do your job. That's the risk.
- treespace88 5y agoAbsolutely, with the productivity gains I wonder if the world will need less developers.
- halfmatthalfcat 5y agoSure that's the risk but fortunately that's not reality. If anything, the job opportunities are so numerous now because companies are no longer geographically restricting themselves, finding a job is going to be much easier in an already saturated (software development) market. I've seen salaries of my peers getting remote jobs increase by 50% across the board, it's kind of insane right now.
- someelephant 5y agoThere are many risks to offshoring as well. The accidental and irreversible 500 million dollar wire from Citibank for example.
- throwaway2037 5y agoWhat if this happened from the New York City headquarters? Or London, Frankfurt, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, etc. Would you still post it? This comment feels at little bit discriminitory.
- jdmichal 5y agoRealistically, this has barriers in legal and tax implications. Employing someone in the EU has an entirely different legal and tax burden than employing someone in the US. For large companies, guess what: They were already doing this anyway. My last company had a dozen major tech sites around the world. But for small companies, like my current one, this is an effective barrier. And it even happens between states in the US, typically on a smaller scale.