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Or maybe it’s enough to have people in the same time zone working the same hours and communicating using technology. There is a big difference between question
by TimPC 4y ago
Or maybe it’s enough to have people in the same time zone working the same hours and communicating using technology.
There is a big difference between questions being answered right away and questions being answered overnight that one still has to consider for outsourcing.
- jghn 4y agoRight. Both sides of this debate have been disingenuous. The remote-or-bust crowd always seems to assume salaries would stay the same. Most, not all, but most software development jobs don't require specialty skills. If the job can truly be done anywhere, why would we assume the answer will be to pay SF salaries all around the world? The must-be-in-office crowd tends to ignore that most of the time remote work mostly is fine. Yes, everyone has an anecdote of this going horribly wrong. But they ignore that minimizing costs as first priority is not going to yield optimal results. And a lot of those horror stories involve bottom rate outsourcing operations. There exists a world in which outsourcing/remote covers most needs but pays less than we're used to in the US software industry. It's neither the penny on the dollar model of traditional outsourcing nor junior devs making 500K TC in theo there extreme.