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Our company went completely remote. Turns out it was a ruse to layoff everyone and offshore 70% of the company to India. As a remote worker, I think the move t
by legitster 2y ago
Our company went completely remote. Turns out it was a ruse to layoff everyone and offshore 70% of the company to India.
As a remote worker, I think the move to remote work is a little naïve. From a company's perspective, if a faceless person from Iowa can do the job just as effectively as someone on site, then you may as well commit and get someone from Bangalore who can do it even cheaper. This middle ground argument that you need to be open to talent from anywhere, but that you should still pay a premium for domestic talent makes no sense to an emotionless organization.
That said, the feudalistic tech management bros that makes these decisions needs to get their heads out of their butts. The problem isn't just that people don't want to go into the office - it's that the cities these jobs are in are overstuffed and underplanned and suck to raise a family.
Having only 6-7 job markets in the entire US for tech workers continues to be dumb and short-sighted, both for cost effeciency as well as the politics of it.
- hilux 2y ago> Having only 6-7 job markets in the entire US for tech workers continues to be dumb and short-sighted That may be true, but it's also true that for many educated people, and especially for people who are non-white, much of the US is just not a very attractive place to live. Amazing observation about the "world,s richest country," but it's true. I wish more US cities had public transit, and diversity of food and people, and broad cultural choices, and good race relations ... but they mostly don't. And even if the city is livable, you're surrounded by a rural MAGAscape.