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I'm pasting my earlier reply to somebody else below. Would appreciate your thoughts: The remote roles I have are all contractual. I mean, most companies want t

I'm pasting my earlier reply to somebody else below. Would appreciate your thoughts: The remote roles I have are all contractual. I mean, most companies want to save money — especially capitalism's capital — USA. What's stopping startups and other mid-scale companies from hiring employees on a contract that is listed as a "contract role" and not "full-time"? Regarding the time zone differences, I overlap pretty much with 8 hours EST. Also, most roles require you only to either overlap 4 or 6 hours, at least that was my experience. The point I'm getting to is, I could even overlap with PST hours healthily unless I was based in somewhere like Japan, Korea, or anywhere in Southeast Asia or Australia.

magicalhippo 2mo ago
I guess I should have mentioned we're in EU and not US, and we're small (~100) so we don't really do contracts but full-time employees. I guess for short-term contract work, fully remote might not be a big deal, but we do notice with our remote workers just how much is lost by them not being in the office all the time with the rest of us. Of course again that's probably amplified by us being so small so we're all on the same floor, so might be different for a huge company. But now, with all the layoffs, companies that are hiring likely have a much larger local pool of talent to pick from, so if they have even a slight preference for local workers then they can get what they need there. I know at least for us we had a much easier time after the big layoffs, and managed to hire several very talented developers for positions that we had had open for years before that.
al_borland 2mo ago
I am based in the US and work with a lot of people in India. I find the time zones to be a huge problem. All our meetings have to be crammed in the morning to accommodate the team members in India. It makes it very difficult to schedule anything, because everyone is so booked up in the morning, and the afternoons are missing half the team. To match my shift, someone in India would be working from 6:30pm - 2:30am. They could technically make the sacrifice and do it, but most don’t want to. Also, if we have to work late, going a few hours beyond 2:30am is much harder than going a few hours beyond 5pm. But as others have said, this isn’t the main reason. It’s all about taxes.

magicalhippo 2mo ago

I guess I should have mentioned we're in EU and not US, and we're small (~100) so we don't really do contracts but full-time employees. I guess for short-term contract work, fully remote might not be a big deal, but we do notice with our remote workers just how much is lost by them not being in the office all the time with the rest of us. Of course again that's probably amplified by us being so small so we're all on the same floor, so might be different for a huge company. But now, with all the layoffs, companies that are hiring likely have a much larger local pool of talent to pick from, so if they have even a slight preference for local workers then they can get what they need there. I know at least for us we had a much easier time after the big layoffs, and managed to hire several very talented developers for positions that we had had open for years before that.

al_borland 2mo ago

I am based in the US and work with a lot of people in India. I find the time zones to be a huge problem. All our meetings have to be crammed in the morning to accommodate the team members in India. It makes it very difficult to schedule anything, because everyone is so booked up in the morning, and the afternoons are missing half the team. To match my shift, someone in India would be working from 6:30pm - 2:30am. They could technically make the sacrifice and do it, but most don’t want to. Also, if we have to work late, going a few hours beyond 2:30am is much harder than going a few hours beyond 5pm. But as others have said, this isn’t the main reason. It’s all about taxes.