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If a company isn't allowing remote work, they're voluntarily cutting themselves off from a large portion of the available labor pool. That's their choice, but
by TigeriusKirk 5y ago
If a company isn't allowing remote work, they're voluntarily cutting themselves off from a large portion of the available labor pool.
That's their choice, but they can never again complain about a shortage of talent. Which should affect their ability to participate in work visa programs, for example.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoThis cuts both ways: people from wealthy countries with high cost of living can never complain about competition from people who will be happy to take 1/4 of their salary to do the same job.
- UncleMeat 5y agoThe only solution for this is organized labor activism. At an individual level, everybody wants to be outsourced to but not outsourced from and nobody can prevent this at an individual level.
- sgift 5y agoIt's not like companies tried that before with outsourcing. It didn't work quite as well as hiring someone who lives in another city in the same country.
- hn_99 5y agoI'm very curious about this, why doesn't it work? I can understand it may be hard for smaller companies to add an entirely new location since it would change team dynamics. But for large corps already having teams across regions, why wouldn't the concentration shift heavily towards lower cost regions?