yep. A place I worked at was doing the outsourcing thing back in 2010. They had almost immediate regret when they realized the skills of the developers did not

yep. A place I worked at was doing the outsourcing thing back in 2010. They had almost immediate regret when they realized the skills of the developers did not meet their expectations and local law prevented the company from firing them without, I believe, 3 documented warnings and attempts to correct performance. That's also the dirty little secret of digital nomad workers, that those of us that worked remote long before the pandemic already understood: these workers don't follow the law. How many of these people are correctly paying and filing their taxes for each country (or US state!) they work in? Probably close to zero. Another place I worked had a policy you could best describe as "don't ask, don't tell." They didn't want to know if you were working from the beach in Thailand. As far as they were concerned, you were still in the US state that your forms say you are in. The legal framework as well as benefits plans have a lot of catching up to do before some new distributed dawn occurs.