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Does a three year contract for remote work, give NYTimes mgmt time to get more jobs outsourced over seas? this is what I've seen at my last two companies of em
by taude 3y ago
Does a three year contract for remote work, give NYTimes mgmt time to get more jobs outsourced over seas? this is what I've seen at my last two companies of employment. Remote work is a gateway to off-shore for a lot of companies, it appears.
- paxys 3y agoCompanies have been trying to off-shore work since the 90s, or possibly even earlier. I used to constantly hear "don't study software engineering, all the jobs are going to India" 25+ years ago. Some companies did succeed in doing it, but most ended up paying 80% of the costs for 10% of the quality, and abandoned the experiment. Remote work changes nothing in that regard.
- dilyevsky 3y agoThat assumes you wont get similar drop off in “quality” with union-forced remote-only arrangement
- Apocryphon 3y agoWas there a drop off in quality with quarantine-forced remote-only arrangement? The markets said "No."
- dilyevsky 3y agoLol now try that without simultaneous infusion of trillions of capital and see what the markets say. In fact I think they already said it...
- Apocryphon 3y agoSounds like quality is never truly being measured, either way!
- dilyevsky 3y agoWhen money is free nobody cares about quality. When money is tight people of all walks of life are suddenly concerned with what they are getting for their money, employers included
- Apocryphon 3y agoYou make a good point, but I’d hazard to say that software “quality” - or even product quality- is often orthogonal to the actual profitability of a tech company.
- dilyevsky 3y agoIf quality doesn’t matter then why did offshoring not work the first time?
- Apocryphon 3y agoFor one thing, I'd imagine intercontinental, transoceanic time zone differences can wreak a lot of havoc.
- karaterobot 3y agoTwo problems with that argument: * You're comparing outcomes with two different causes (quarantine versus contract) * You're asking about the quality of the outcome, but defining the answer as whatever the market says. As the market doesn't weigh in on quality, only value (and that imperfectly in many situations) it can't answer that question.