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Re:Amazon postpones return to office until January 2022 by mint2 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:02PM (#28078886)
I’m personally on the hybrid boat, but one thing I’m worried about is whether full remote just leads to more outsourcing. Out sourcing has a lot of issues, but the actual differences between an onsite employee versus a remote employee in Prague are bigger than a remote employee in Montana versus Prague. And the perceived difference to a cfo may be even lower, so maybe they’ll go with wherever is cheaper.

Are these concerns of being careful of what we wish for too premature?

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Re:Amazon postpones return to office until January 2022 by majormajor on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:12PM (#28079039)
The folks who consider themselves un-outsourcable who have to interact with the devteam often won't consider someone in Prague to be a substitute for someone in Montana since it will fuck their schedule up timezone-wise and/or result in tanked productivity through massively harder coordination challenges.

Canada or Central or South America, on the other hand... could be a lot of opportunity for people there.

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Re:Amazon postpones return to office until January 2022 by the-dude on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:09PM (#28078987)
You might be very well right that the colleague from Prague outclasses your Montana colleague.

Does that worry you?

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Re:Amazon postpones return to office until January 2022 by mint2 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @06:17PM (#28080734)
No, that’s my point. If they’re already remote then the difference is diminished between someone who wanted offices remote so they could move out of a high cost of living area and the remote person in another lower cost of living country. There is value in having people onsite, but without that consideration then the supply of workers is higher.

Is this necessarily bad? No, but be prepared for more competition and maybe needing to move to an even lower cost area than you’d imagined.

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