Long before covid and wfh, Dyson moved its manufacturing to low cost countries in Asia. This was driven by profit, of course. Thus anything’s Dyson says about

Long before covid and wfh, Dyson moved its manufacturing to low cost countries in Asia. This was driven by profit, of course. Thus anything’s Dyson says about uk conditions is irrelevant unless he’s talking about money managers or other finance types. Yeah, if you’re going to run a plant it makes sense to have people working in said plant. If, however, you’re creating non physical items such as software, why does it matter where the people work? It’s possible the design stage profits from contact but that a small group performing a limited task. There are sufficient tools to develop in any possible topology so “getting the best group” or “getting the cheapest group” can be pursued. And there’s good reason to develop a distributed system in a distributed way, eating one’s own dog food as it were.