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> If I can hire someone remotely in San Antonio, why can't I hire someone remotely in São Paulo as a result? Because the person in Brazil would be able to stea

> If I can hire someone remotely in San Antonio, why can't I hire someone remotely in São Paulo as a result? Because the person in Brazil would be able to steal your IP and you'd have no financial, legal, or emotional recourse since they're across an international border. Big tech is continuing to find this out the hard way when countries like China and India somehow clone their products in record time. By hiring in the same country you reside in, you have access to your legal system to protect you and your business interests. And it can also protect your own ego as well (if you have one). And for the USA specifically, it is also really about the people here. Tech is a surprisingly human industry, and Americans have the humanity and grit to pull it off. > pay a lower salary Nothing is stopping tech from doing this right now to American workers. Remember that those higher paying firms do false positive hiring - they reject way more people than they pull in. If you do the reverse and adjust your operations to account for more workers that "aren't good but aren't bad either", you'd probably perform even better than offshoring.

HankStallone 1y ago
Right, nothing's stopped offshoring for a few decades, especially since the Internet became global. That's why I say what can be offshored pretty much has been. I even know some companies who did it years ago and reversed the policy after it didn't work out as well as they expected. So higher costs on importing workers might prompt a bit more offshoring, but not much, because if those companies thought those jobs could be done offshore, they'd already be there.
- alephnerd 1y ago
  > nothing's stopped offshoring for a few decades Async development at scale (and especially for revenue generating IP) was still not proven until COVID. Additonally, the reverse brain drain in much of China, CEE, Israel, and India only kicked off in the late 2010s, and the COVID layoffs and subsequent rehiring made it easier to open an office abroad. > because if those companies thought those jobs could be done offshore, they'd already be there Every job that would have gone to someone who requires some kind of work sponsorship can now be justified with a hiring abroad. I'd recommend reading tfa, and as someone who is on a couple boards, trust me when I am saying that offshoring is now going to go in hyperdrive.

HankStallone 1y ago

Right, nothing's stopped offshoring for a few decades, especially since the Internet became global. That's why I say what can be offshored pretty much has been. I even know some companies who did it years ago and reversed the policy after it didn't work out as well as they expected. So higher costs on importing workers might prompt a bit more offshoring, but not much, because if those companies thought those jobs could be done offshore, they'd already be there.

alephnerd 1y ago
> nothing's stopped offshoring for a few decades Async development at scale (and especially for revenue generating IP) was still not proven until COVID. Additonally, the reverse brain drain in much of China, CEE, Israel, and India only kicked off in the late 2010s, and the COVID layoffs and subsequent rehiring made it easier to open an office abroad. > because if those companies thought those jobs could be done offshore, they'd already be there Every job that would have gone to someone who requires some kind of work sponsorship can now be justified with a hiring abroad. I'd recommend reading tfa, and as someone who is on a couple boards, trust me when I am saying that offshoring is now going to go in hyperdrive.