>It sounds like your employer could save a lot of costs by hiring remote workers in the countries you mentioned. Payroll is one of the smaller slices of the ex

>It sounds like your employer could save a lot of costs by hiring remote workers in the countries you mentioned. Payroll is one of the smaller slices of the expense pie when it comes to space. It would be extremely challenging to find engineers with the experience needed for mission assurance in the numbers needed to maintain our output. The output, in terms of serial-numbered subassemblies, of my organization (a small team in a small division of a single American company I am almost certain most of you have never even heard of) exceeded the total production of every single EU space firm combined. It's like how semiconductor production lines in the US have to import experts from Taiwan to get them running and it takes years and years and billions in government subsidies: experience matters.