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When GM or Ford wants to outsource, they need to pour billions into new plants in Alabama or Mexico or other non-UAW locations. If google wanted to outsource,
by missedthecue 4y ago
When GM or Ford wants to outsource, they need to pour billions into new plants in Alabama or Mexico or other non-UAW locations.
If google wanted to outsource, they could hire people globally, with very little cost or efficiency loss. All else being equal, a dev in Baton Rouge (or Bogota, or Buenas Aires, or Bangalore) is as productive as one in San Jose. And it doesn't cost anything extra to bring one on.
- doctorwho42 4y agoThen why haven't they? I doubt the efficiency claim.
- missedthecue 4y agoThey have. Google used to be mostly Palo Alto (and foreign branch offices) and now they're much much less Palo Alto.