I think there is a major competitive advantage here for small employers that know what they are doing. If you are running a small US/EU based company and you fi

I think there is a major competitive advantage here for small employers that know what they are doing. If you are running a small US/EU based company and you find someone great in an offshore local, then you can dramatically increase their loyalty, motivation, and potentially output with relatively modest and reasonable raises. I fully understand that larger organizations make the transition to an MBA bean counter mindset that attempts to homogenize and commoditize employees, and I don't have any suggestions to change this status quo. But small owner operated companies don't have to play by these rules. If you are leading a small technology company you should be well aware that there are huge differences in output between employees and your ability to actually know your people by name along with each of their strengths and weaknesses is information asymmetry that you have over the bigger competitors.