With all the WFH, there isn't any need to hire in the USA. If you can hire 2x/3x remote employees in a cheaper location than 1 remote in the USA, wouldn't you? History is repeating, what happened to blue collar is happening to white collar jobs, and the USA will be the loser. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/01/google-cuts-hundreds-of-core-workers-moves-jobs-to-india-mexico.html Edit: People missed the point, as a manager, wouldn't you prefer 2x or 3x employees in your team than 1x, if both options are remote? Level: 69 TC: š„š„š„š„š„š„
Where are all these 100% wfh jobs? Companies are increasingly telling their employees āRTO or GTFOā these days.
Freewheel is 100% remote right now
Weāre full remote
Yes. Agree. We will have to RTO to our new shiny offices in Mexico, Columbia, or Costa Rica. Enjoy folks. At least food will be better. And those latino guys š
WFH is DOA
Stop fear mongering lol. If your company wants to offshore your ass, they can build an office somewhere in Mexico or India or somewhere cheap with or without WFH. If anything, controlling H1Bs would be a much better option in keeping American jobs to Americans.
I looked at job openings for Pinterest, Google, Uber, Microsoft, and more Almost all are hiring engineers in Mexico, India, and Poland Offshoring is happening. And yes Pinterest does have an engineering office in Mexico.
Remote work has been possible for decades and it hasn't happened yet. The reason we haven't been replaced is because Quality has a price.
Didnāt we have this discussion when working remotely at all became a thing well over a decade ago? Companies arenāt just figuring this out. If distributed teams didnāt give them this realization, then WFH would have went right over their heads too. Iām willing to bet hiring temp staff aug from Cognizant at 3/4 the wages of an American worker (even if the contractor sees 1/5 of that) isnāt all that attractive long term outside of economic downturns.
Communicating clearly is already difficult when both people are native speakers. If you think this is the case, just hire out an overseas team to do your job
There are no WFH jobs anymore
so did the factory workers of Wisconsin and Michigan got to WFH?
Blue collar jobs shifted because equivalent work was possible remotely. The same is happening in white collar jobs now. If an employee is going to be remote anyways, thereby not having benefit of in person collaboration among other things, then why not hire 2-3 employees at same cost remotely?
not sure what you mean when you say equivalent work was possible remotely? They moved entire organizations even if individual work cannot be done remotely
Timezone is still an issue
That is why Mexico and Latin America exist.
This. At some point the leadership will have to be outsourced/offshored