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This is also why I don’t believe the rise of remote work (if it actually happens) will be as good for US workers Beyond just time zone issues, there are substa
by 300bps 5y ago
This is also why I don’t believe the rise of remote work (if it actually happens) will be as good for US workers
Beyond just time zone issues, there are substantial legal, cultural, language and other issues that will prevent this from happening on a wide and sustainable scale.
I have worked with many companies that tried this and failed spectacularly. Examples of problems encountered:
1. Having to explain every little thing that people of the same culture intrinsically know
2. Being slapped with regulations that nobody in the U.S. has even heard of
3. Cultural differences surrounding vacation / other time off
4. Overseas contractors literally copying the company and using their data and using the software they were hired to write to compete against them. I spent four days as an expert witness in a U.S. Federal court case over this one.
- hirako2000 5y agoI concur, my experience too. Cultural differences is a big one. Both for the finished product, and with regards to organisation costs which are often invisible, just felt and never accounted for with numbers. I'm less familiar with 4. But seen many cases of data leaks. It's very challenging to figure out the purpose, competing is only one.