This implicitly assumes companies have acted rationally as a whole. It took a pandemic to get the majority of software dev to have a taste of remote work more t

This implicitly assumes companies have acted rationally as a whole. It took a pandemic to get the majority of software dev to have a taste of remote work more than 1 day a week. Meanwhile we still have companies who burned their hands on outsourcing to the lowest bidder possible proclaiming remote work as a whole doesn't work. We have companies doing the bare minimum to accommodate remote work point out one deficiency, then proceed to say "look, see? Remote work doesn't work for us!". I'm skeptical given there's this entire content called "Europe" with tons of English speakers, even native speakers, living largely in a 9-5 culture with plenty of skilled, educated developers willing to work unconventional hours and the US has barely tapped into that workforce yet. Given there are many legal issues and gates, but it's not like the US and Canada are the only places with skilled developers.