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Re:Don't call it 'outsourcing': Hiring employees globally is... by bluefirebrand on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @12:12PM (#28062736)
> In the past the outsourced teams were clearly second class teams behind the primary local teams.

> That won’t be the case if the entire company is remote first

This assumption is based on the idea that outsourced teams were the second class teams because they were remote.

They weren't. They were second class teams because they were outsourced.

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Re:Don't call it 'outsourcing': Hiring employees globally is... by void_mint on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @12:57PM (#28063381)
> They weren't. They were second class teams because they were outsourced.

This is it. The quality of the work was just really bad, very consistently. It had nothing to do with being remote.

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