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Re:Employee Asked to Go Remote, Job Outsourced to India by commandlinefan on Thursday April 13, 2023 @11:45AM (#35557228)
> that your are paying a us worker for vs a worker from a cheap labor market?

If this worked, they would have done it in 1995. I know, because they (and by they I mean absolutely every single living corporate executive) tried. Again, and again, and again.

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Re:Employee Asked to Go Remote, Job Outsourced to India by citrin_ru on Thursday April 13, 2023 @03:05PM (#35560496)
Indian IT sector has grown dramatically since 1995 so it works to some extent.
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Re:Employee Asked to Go Remote, Job Outsourced to India by asdajksah2123 on Thursday April 13, 2023 @03:40PM (#35561070)
Also relevantly, Indians are much more willing to move back to India today, where an IT job (especially with an American company), will allow them a much better standard of living than what they have in the US.
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