Yeah, but remote work is difficult enough to manage IN THE US where people are rarely more than a few hours apart and share a common language and culture. Comp

Yeah, but remote work is difficult enough to manage IN THE US where people are rarely more than a few hours apart and share a common language and culture. Companies are not going to find it easy to hire Eastern European or Singaporean devs and get them to produce value - at least not any more than they did pre-pandemic. Remote work has been massively overhyped; IMO it does noticeably make organizations less productive after some time has passed and people need to plan the next big project. Seeing someone in-person is insanely high bandwidth. It takes an hour to plan a thing that might have taken a day's worth of frustrating meetings and two design docs. I'm convinced at this point that anyone saying otherwise is either senior enough to be able to browbeat everyone else who has thoughts on their plans (and then design truly awful systems ime) or knows the truth and enjoys the extra free time.