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Re:Toxic culture is driving the great resignation by ThrowawayR2 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @11:23AM (#29922513)
Instead of outsourcing, even relatively small businesses are now opening international branch offices with full time local employees, tapping the pool of talented engineers who would prefer not to emigrate. The grandparent poster is correct: if there's real savings to be had, eventually someone will find a way to get to it.
Re:Toxic culture is driving the great resignation by acdha on Thursday January 13, 2022 @11:27AM (#29922596)
I think you’re both right: outsourcing jobs rarely saves money due to the communications & cultural gaps if you’re trying to closely manage someone’s work and they don’t have a very clear understanding of where their work fits in the larger scheme of things.

What works better is outsourcing entire business functions so all of that routine coordination can happen in the same team/time zone, and you have an easier time measuring performance.