With work from home formalized, the way is paved for the tech cartels to open pool to the globe. Trim highly paid W2's. If you no longer have to employ in high cost of living centers, why not employ remote talent from across the globe in much cheaper areas?
When that kicks in is when white collar will be shoulder to shoulder with blue collar to make a change.
However, from my PoV, I've seen what the talent pool looks like overseas, and it's a total crapshoot.
They tried offshoring full-on 10 years ago, and wound up on-shoring for anything more complicated than IT help-desk scripted stuff.
There is good talent to be had overseas (I promise, I know quite a few, and many of them report to me), but as they learned then, and many are learning the hard way now, for every one competent code-monkey or sysadmin living in Pune, Prague, or Shanghai? There are 10,000 fucking incompetents who have to be told every little thing, have to have their work cleaned-up at great expense in time and effort, and in general lied their asses off to get the job. The ratio in the US is much, much nicer - only 1-in-20 or so, and most of the incompetents here can be weeded out quickly enough.
With work from home formalized, the way is paved for the tech cartels to open pool to the globe. Trim highly paid W2's. If you no longer have to employ in high cost of living centers, why not employ remote talent from across the globe in much cheaper areas?
When that kicks in is when white collar will be shoulder to shoulder with blue collar to make a change.
I agree to an extent.
However, from my PoV, I've seen what the talent pool looks like overseas, and it's a total crapshoot.
They tried offshoring full-on 10 years ago, and wound up on-shoring for anything more complicated than IT help-desk scripted stuff.
There is good talent to be had overseas (I promise, I know quite a few, and many of them report to me), but as they learned then, and many are learning the hard way now, for every one competent code-monkey or sysadmin living in Pune, Prague, or Shanghai? There are 10,000 fucking incompetents who have to be told every little thing, have to have their work cleaned-up at great expense in time and effort, and in general lied their asses off to get the job. The ratio in the US is much, much nicer - only 1-in-20 or so, and most of the incompetents here can be weeded out quickly enough.
You mean Pajeet charges 50 cents an hour for a reason?!
Yup... and that 50 cents an hour will end up costing you $150/hr to fix.