Move over, remote jobs. CEOs say borderless talent is the future of tech work

They've been trying this my entire lifetime. I was warned away from tech because of offshoring in my early teens.

Sometimes it works out. It usually doesn't. Heck, my last company swung back and forth on it twice in the 10 years I was there.

I do think quality exists everywhere in the world. But when you go fishing for cheap, which is usually the reason for seeking it in the first place, you're never going to find it.

Ugh, what a load of garbage. Is paying American salaries for your developers really that expensive? You'd think CEOs wouldn't want to cheap out on the very people that make their business possible.

I gotta say, "borderless talent" is a nice spin on "cutting American jobs and sending that money overseas". Wonder if we'll start hearing it more, or if it was coined for this article.

80% of my engineering department was off shored and the results are exactly what you’d expect.

Anything to drive down labor costs and try to keep people in fear.

> "Borderless hiring"

> "Value-driven efficiency"

> "Global time zone delineation"

> "Value chain"

> "Globalized opportunity"

> "Decentralized tech talent platform"

> "Asynchronous workforce"

> "Future-of-work philosophy"

> "Altruistic potential"

> "Growth playbook"

all just sounds like grade A bullshit to me. off-shoring is nothing new. still has same issues it always did.

although much dev work has become very commodified and saturated so the demographic reality is that it's very hard to find a job, and most jobs dont pay well and hiring has become extremely arrogant and choosy.

So its the 2000s all over again

Do CEOs ever learn their lessons?

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CEOs love borderless talent until they realize that it exposes them to borderless corporate income taxation...

This isn't like the old days when Apple and Microsoft could exploit international tax loopholes. Those loopholes are gone, and transfer pricing (aka mandatory profit for related-party cross-board transactions) is now mandatory. In some countries, there are proposals to to tax transfer pricing income even if the entity as a whole is not profitable, and this is on the table for the next OECD guidelines. Countries are also no longer willing to accept the ridiculous under-valuations of migrated or licensed IP that Apple and Microsoft got away with.

Not a lot of work on this, as far as I can see.

One of the few I found:

GLICK, P., CONSTANT, L., EDOCHIE, I., & NATARAJ, S. (2020). Online Outsourcing.

It looks like the (really) rosy scenario that the article paints may only be viable if:

1) There are highly skilled workers with good English skills on the supply side. 2) Companies are convinced that it could actually work on the demand side.

The article makes a lot of recommendations for how it could work, but doesn't see it working in their study. And the CNBC article is light on citations. So probably just clickbait.

Rebranding "remote" to "new phrase" will not make anyone forgive you for writing "remote" on job roles that are obsessed with sitting in an office. It's not a clever hiring hack, it just broadcasts that you like operating fraudulently.

Borys is in Ukraine, he can't understand Pablo, who is in Brazil. Pablo has trouble understanding Yosef, who is in Israel. Yosef has trouble understanding Jack, who is in California. Jack has trouble understanding Borys.

I'm sure they'll make a quality product!

Really the bottom line is H1B and other USA visas need to stop being awarded to tech workers tomorrow because you can ship a laptop and a starlink terminal anywhere.

Ban non-compete. Impose steep taxes on companies earning American profits with less than 95% American labor.

Borderless hiring? When did the word Remote not cover that?

If offshoring worked, it would have worked the first time.

The largest filter, the Great Filter, these companies cannot overcome is a true digital native workforce and communication mechanism. When your days are haraunged by voice/video meetings because people don’t know how to work asynchronously, productivity plummets when timezone differences are introduced. An absolute shitshow to behold.

Very few, relatively speaking, tech teams understand how to leverage asynchronous work patterns. I think open source projects which are dominated by 40 year old virgin neckbeards (those still exist right?) show the silver lining, but alas, nobody will get it.

Round the merry go round we go again.

Wait till they relearn how timezones will slow everything to a crawl

They'll make you return to office after forcing you to work remote, just long enough to find a foreigner to take your job oversees.

Capitalism. Check mate.

And yet at the same time, most US companies are hiring only "Remote within US/Canada" ..