Remote work allows companies hire cheaper overseas
Especially in the past 6 months, I have seen companies hire more and more candidates for less cost overseas. Yes, I know this does not happen a lot in Big tech, but for smaller tech companies (that hire most tech workers), this is a thing. The biggest argument I’ve heard on Blind is that: 1. You can only find the best talent locally 2. Regulations currently limit it If you work for smaller tech companies, you probably know that this is false. One - talent is global. TikTok, Shopify, Spotify, Samsung, etc are all none US companies and they’re doing pretty good. Calendly and Grammarly were mostly built by engineers in Europe. Rippling had a decent number of employees in India. if you have ever truly worked in a remote first global company, you know that skill, expertise and even experience is universal. The only thing that isn’t universal is immigration. 2. There are regulations, but it does not apply to most tech companies Most tech companies aren’t in a regulated space and can get away with this. Even the ones that are in a HIGHLY-regulated space (I would know), you’d be surprised how much work can be done overseas (Engineering, customer support, etc). Even employees that have multiple remote jobs in US sometimes get people overseas to do some of the work for them (I know 1 person doing this. Job is in US. Hired someone for a cheap rate to do it in a different continent) Have you noticed that your company has started hiring more people from other parts of the world where it’s cheaper? If they’ve not, what do you think is stopping them?
Timezones
This isn’t a problem. Many companies already have teams in multiple timezones e.g Tik Tok.
Sure.
Culture and time zones still matter. Naturally more work will be going overseas as other countries catch up.
Shopify has been systematically firing their westernized support for developing world support from Phillipines and poor countries in EU. They fired hundreds of support staff and rehired over 2000 BPO external contractors. They've added 20-50 external non staff support vendors to all teams and will eventually outsource all their support entirely. Shame because their support has gone downhill in the past year. These ESL workers are far worse, it's not even comparable
Low US TC equivalent for me in EU would be like feeling rich. Welcome to globalisation.
> If they've not, what do you think is stopping them? Because the absolute easiest positions to send overseas or outsource are those of the people calling these shots. If the people familiar with your stack/product can be offshored then why on earth couldn't the accountants and supervisors?