I’ll be curious to see who wins - the tech workers who’ve shown they can work from anywhere, versus the middle managers who are going to try clawing all those people back into the office.
I’ll be curious to see who wins - the tech workers who’ve shown they can work from anywhere, versus the middle managers who are going to try clawing all those people back into the office.
Neither. It will be the stockholders who replace the Zoom-enabled remote tech workers with much cheaper offshore tech workers. No need to get visas for workers who Zoom in from Shiva knows where.
I’ll be curious to see who wins - the tech workers who’ve shown they can work from anywhere, versus the middle managers who are going to try clawing all those people back into the office.
Neither. It will be the stockholders who replace the Zoom-enabled remote tech workers with much cheaper offshore tech workers. No need to get visas for workers who Zoom in from Shiva knows where.
Are you always so cheerful? But I digress.
So the stockholders will have learned NOTHING from the job great offshoring of 2000. The economy was in the tank and companies were looking to cut costs.
"Send the jobs overseas. They're cheap! We can get 4 there for the cost of 1 here." was the rallying cry. But it wasn't. Code quality was crap, NDAs were routinely ignored and tech/customer support was a joke. For software, overall costs were higher when taking into account time to fix the code.
"But it's different this time"
I agree, those countries aren't cheap anymore. Wages have been rising.
The next 6-12 months will be interesting (Score:4, Insightful)
I’ll be curious to see who wins - the tech workers who’ve shown they can work from anywhere, versus the middle managers who are going to try clawing all those people back into the office.
Re: (Score:5, Interesting)
I’ll be curious to see who wins - the tech workers who’ve shown they can work from anywhere, versus the middle managers who are going to try clawing all those people back into the office.
Neither. It will be the stockholders who replace the Zoom-enabled remote tech workers with much cheaper offshore tech workers. No need to get visas for workers who Zoom in from Shiva knows where.
Re:The next 6-12 months will be interesting (Score:2)
I’ll be curious to see who wins - the tech workers who’ve shown they can work from anywhere, versus the middle managers who are going to try clawing all those people back into the office.
Neither. It will be the stockholders who replace the Zoom-enabled remote tech workers with much cheaper offshore tech workers. No need to get visas for workers who Zoom in from Shiva knows where.
Are you always so cheerful? But I digress.
So the stockholders will have learned NOTHING from the job great offshoring of 2000. The economy was in the tank and companies were looking to cut costs.
"Send the jobs overseas. They're cheap! We can get 4 there for the cost of 1 here." was the rallying cry. But it wasn't. Code quality was crap, NDAs were routinely ignored and tech/customer support was a joke. For software, overall costs were higher when taking into account time to fix the code.
"But it's different this time"
I agree, those countries aren't cheap anymore. Wages have been rising.