Remote-first work is taking over the rich world – research hints at why

Re:Remote-first work is taking over the rich world – researc... by shp0ngle on Thursday October 28, 2021 @11:30PM (#29034870)

It depends.

The rich countries still prefer to hire in rich countries, because of:

* similar timezone/working hours

* similar work culture

* less language barriers

* rich countries still got better skilled workers

* less legislative overhead with employments, payments, firing

* if you get a really good person in third world, he will in the end cost similarly as good person in first world

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Re:Remote-first work is taking over the rich world – researc... by Aeolun on Friday October 29, 2021 @12:01AM (#29035023)

> if you get a really good person in third world, he will in the end cost similarly as good person in first world

Inevitably. Because a person like that will very quickly move to the first world.

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Re:Remote-first work is taking over the rich world – researc... by rsj_hn on Friday October 29, 2021 @12:03AM (#29035037)

Exactly. Companies will fall over themselves to sponsor a visa. And he will jump at the chance to take it.

Maybe not in 100 years, but right now that's how it is.

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Re:Remote-first work is taking over the rich world – researc... by redisman on Friday October 29, 2021 @04:03AM (#29036334)

Exactly. Poor countries have huge problems other than low salaries. Corruption, crime, lack of freedoms, bad infrastructure, poor investment options, etc. As much as many Americans like to think their country sucks, it’s a literal dream land for a large percentage of the world population.

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Re:Remote-first work is taking over the rich world – researc... by shp0ngle on Friday October 29, 2021 @11:24AM (#29039572)

Yep. We used to hire remotely in Nigeria, and that was almost always the case. The ones that we wanted to keep always got to richer countries and multiplied their prices.

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