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Have you not looked at the past two decades in tech? Offshoring and hiring firms in other countries has been attempted for a long, long time. The reason why it
by fzeroracer 3y ago
Have you not looked at the past two decades in tech? Offshoring and hiring firms in other countries has been attempted for a long, long time. The reason why it fails is because offshoring even in a fully remote environment is hard, from cultural differences, work quality, time zone differentials and so forth. You can hire a company in India to do work, but optimizing for cost and hiring a cheap shop instead of one of the more premium ones means you get exactly what you paid for.
Every time companies either bring the jobs back, bring the people back or spend more on hiring good firms in their offshore country of choice.
- brewdad 3y agoSo what happens when instead of shipping entire departments to India, companies hire a specific individual in Dublin or Topeka Kansas for half of what a SV employee costs? There won't be nearly the issues of culture or time zones or whatever. For now, remote salaries are holding up to what workers made in their HCOL offices. That won't and can't hold true over the long run.