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WFH works only in certain niche areas - when the work you do can be done alone on your laptop without any heavy collaboration required. I sincerely wish that th
by RestlessMind 4y ago
WFH works only in certain niche areas - when the work you do can be done alone on your laptop without any heavy collaboration required. I sincerely wish that the current meme of "WFH FTW" dies out before it removes one of the last ladders left for the Western masses to prosperity.
I can understand why capital class is in favor, they after all get labor for cheap and get to break the inconvenience of having to pay higher compensation. I just don't understand why labor (eg. software engineers) doesn't see the inevitable writing on the wall. But again, people also had a rose-tinted view that companies will never do layoffs and high TC will perpetuate forever. Hopefully, people are realizing now that the capital class will fuck them over at the fist chance they get.
- jleyank 4y agoOffshoring/outsourcing is decades old yet it didn’t kill office work pre covid. Good staff, when required, requires effort to hire. If you don’t need it, why do it?
- RestlessMind 4y agoBecause the biggest differences now are: remote collaboration tools are mature, companies learn to hire-and-replace one-by-one. So existing US-based staff was used to onboard new non-US members, then once those members ramped up, they were used for further onboarding newer non-US members. Then when the layoffs happened, most of the brunt fell on US based members. This didn't happen pre-covid where you had to replace the whole team, which was much harder to pull off. Also, tools (like Zoom) were not yet widely adopted and the populace wasn't trained on them. Covid forced us to learn all those tools.