WFH extensions and implications for US workers
Oct 22, 2020
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Multiple companies just extended their WFH policy til Q3 next year.
Heard somewhere yesterday that this forced digitization made multiple organizations realize that majority remote workforce is doable. While I know several tech workers happily staying in Airbnb beach houses or working from Hawaii, is this the start of massive outsourcing of tech positions?
You see companies are realizing that if workers can get things done from home, they can also be done from Manila, Bangalore, Chengdu and Warsaw for 1/4 of the cost.
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Sure, they would like more flexibility than we had in the past but 90% of the ppl I know are really eager to go back to the office.
So this is just temporary.
And offshore work isn't the same quality. US has better talent. So you can perhaps get work done for 1/4 cost but even if it's 3/4 the quality, for top companies that's unacceptable.
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1. Outsourcing catches on (much more so than before). This would happen more likely if permanent WFH catches on.
2. Outsourcing doesn’t catch on (beyond pre pandemic levels). This would be more likely if permanent WFH does not catch on and we all return to office.
People say “muhhhh we’ve tried outsourcing before and it never worked”. Yeah just like permanent wfh. So either outsourcing WILL work now, or permanent wfh won’t work and everyone’s (most non remote prior to pandemic) gotta go back to the office