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mortureb
on Sept 18, 2023
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Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the ...
40% of IT work is already outsourced and that’s a number that is rapidly growing and that’s only over a decade and a half. It doesn’t even take into account foreign employees that now just work remotely.
tyingq
on Sept 18, 2023
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Sort of. There's a lot of outsourced work. It doesn't appear to have cannibalized the onshore work in a significant way.
mortureb
on Sept 19, 2023
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Tell that to the current SE labor market though it may be unrelated.
MuffinFlavored
on Sept 19, 2023
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why does Meta pay engineers $400k when there’s somebody offshore willing to do it for $35/hr?
hmm…
mortureb
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For a long time the answer was they needed those people to physically come into the office.
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