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You're getting a lot of flak about this, but I'm with you. I enjoy aspects of WFH but I would be much happier with a nice office. This is short sighted from my

by viccis 3y ago

You're getting a lot of flak about this, but I'm with you. I enjoy aspects of WFH but I would be much happier with a nice office. This is short sighted from my company's manage, I know, but universal WFH has turned out to just lead to universal outsourcing. We don't hire anyone from the US anymore, especially not junior devs. For example, college grads would normally be a good source of cheaper labor you expect to go elsewhere within a few years, but someone in Colombia would be a good source of even cheaper labor you expect to go elsewhere within a few years. And if there's no advantage of the college grad being in-person, why choose them? It's all very short sighted and also speaks to a lack of internal career development and raises, but if there is one thing you can count on from executives, it's making short sighted decisions that boost numbers for the current quarter.

happytoexplain 3y ago
Re: Outsourcing, This is a destructive hostage-taking tactic. Businesses can outsource any time they want, to any extent they want, in response to any behaviors they want to dissuade in the employees that are in the places they normally hire from - not just to punish WFH. WFH just happens to have parallels with outsourcing that make it "look" like a gotcha. Of course in reality, the fact alone that businesses will treat people like this is not justification for the acceptance of that treatment. Taking advantage of the various deltas between different economies/cultures, which the people in those places have no control over, for the sake of profit, is simply immoral. Any immorality that is inevitable by the basic laws of business (barring regulation) is still immorality. Businesses often trick normal people into thinking that if they don't engage in all of the exact same shrewd practices that other businesses do, that they will go under. In reality, it's not that simple, and businesses should (and hopefully will, in the future) be held viciously accountable for their immorality.

by viccis 3y ago

happytoexplain 3y ago

Re: Outsourcing, This is a destructive hostage-taking tactic. Businesses can outsource any time they want, to any extent they want, in response to any behaviors they want to dissuade in the employees that are in the places they normally hire from - not just to punish WFH. WFH just happens to have parallels with outsourcing that make it "look" like a gotcha. Of course in reality, the fact alone that businesses will treat people like this is not justification for the acceptance of that treatment. Taking advantage of the various deltas between different economies/cultures, which the people in those places have no control over, for the sake of profit, is simply immoral. Any immorality that is inevitable by the basic laws of business (barring regulation) is still immorality. Businesses often trick normal people into thinking that if they don't engage in all of the exact same shrewd practices that other businesses do, that they will go under. In reality, it's not that simple, and businesses should (and hopefully will, in the future) be held viciously accountable for their immorality.