Re:“Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?
by OJFord on Sunday February 14, 2021 @06:03PM
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What about different countries? Where do you the draw the line? At some point it's just an economic reality we've lived with for centuries.
I'm not really saying it's right, just that if a company is set up to be able to handle you working at great distance and cross timezone, then probably the outcome is that they can get it cheaper than you are.
And it's nothing new, it's just that we call it 'outsourcing' when they're Indian, and 'remote working' or 'digital nomadism' otherwise.
I'm no 'SJW', far from it; in my book the modern free market capitalist employer embraces remote work, but certainly doesn't pay SFBA rates through the nose for it.
(To go with such remote friendly trends though, CoV has also brought anti-globalism trends, so who knows, really! I'm quite looking forward to reading about what's happening, in ten or twenty years' time.)
I'm not really saying it's right, just that if a company is set up to be able to handle you working at great distance and cross timezone, then probably the outcome is that they can get it cheaper than you are.
And it's nothing new, it's just that we call it 'outsourcing' when they're Indian, and 'remote working' or 'digital nomadism' otherwise.
I'm no 'SJW', far from it; in my book the modern free market capitalist employer embraces remote work, but certainly doesn't pay SFBA rates through the nose for it.
(To go with such remote friendly trends though, CoV has also brought anti-globalism trends, so who knows, really! I'm quite looking forward to reading about what's happening, in ten or twenty years' time.)