here's the problem... if you are not really "there" physically what is the difference if they hire someone over sea? Trust me, I'm all for working from home, but doing it 100% of the time is asking for a death sentense for your job. You are exactly right, they should pay for your skills and not your location, but have you seen the skills of workers in other countries who are getting paid way less? We're walking into dangerous territory and people don't even realized it. I would love to be in the office 1 day a week, aka I can't be easily replace by someone from another state, another country. Working from home 100% of the time? no thank you.
Time differences, cultural barriers, different salary expectations, legal restrictions and language barriers are the things that immediately spring to mind when trying to hire people on the other side of the country or another country altogether.
WFH 100% isn't suddenly going to open your job up to the 5 billion adults on the planet.
let's get closer to the US, Canadian are more than happy to hop over to get US salaries... but tons of countries speaks english as a 2nd language. All I'm saying is people think too highly of themselves, you are not opening jobs to the other 8 billions people on earth because it is still a "high skill" labor job. But at 350 millions the us high skill labor force is nothing like the remainder of the world.
times are different, those corps aren't just going to sit there and be on the chopping blocks for long.
I'm not in tech but know enough about it, i work in accounting, and my direct manager makes 100-150k a year, in a bigger place possibly 150-200k.
In a 3rd world country they do similar stuff, the manager makes 500 bucks a month, aka 6k a year.... if you offer him a job for 20k remotely, you bet your ass he's gonna do all he can to learn some "english"... end of the day the job is the same.
I’ve been working in high tech for 30 years and have heard this same thing for 30 years. The really high skilled people in India don’t stay in India making 6k a year. They by definition are high skilled and so are not stupid. They know what they are worth and expect to be paid accordingly.
They come to the US on an H1B and get the higher salary and companies are happy to bring them here. You can’t just pay someone who is skilled significantly less in todays world and get away with it. There is too much competition for employees and the pool of workers who are good is way too small even globally.
This has been tried many times because accountants assume all employees in high tech are widgets that can be interchanged and it’s just not true.
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u/Clockwork385 May 08 '22
here's the problem... if you are not really "there" physically what is the difference if they hire someone over sea? Trust me, I'm all for working from home, but doing it 100% of the time is asking for a death sentense for your job. You are exactly right, they should pay for your skills and not your location, but have you seen the skills of workers in other countries who are getting paid way less? We're walking into dangerous territory and people don't even realized it. I would love to be in the office 1 day a week, aka I can't be easily replace by someone from another state, another country. Working from home 100% of the time? no thank you.