It's also communication. You can communicate across distance, you cannot communicate across time. > It's the employee's education (& skill, experience, etc.)

It's also communication. You can communicate across distance, you cannot communicate across time. > It's the employee's education (& skill, experience, etc.) that matters, not the region's. The quality of educational systems is regionally defined, yes the other aspects are individual, and there's variation in what each individual can get out of the given educational context - but to claim that there's no degree of consistency in the calibre of candidates that come from given regions is ridiculous. There're always exceptions to generalisations - but you seldom want to pick up a single regional employee (except for the smallest of projects), because timely communication is always vital. If the individual is of such an extraordinary calibre that they become a vital hire, it often involves relocation.