It makes sense that Google would want to push jobs from high-cost centers to low-cost ones. The only question is why they haven't done so more aggressively.
That's funny because internally at Google this is what happened:
Step 1) Forced RTO for folks who weren't officially remote back to their HCOL offices. (Also, in some orgs, fully remote people were being told they're not going to get promoted).
Note that remote folk were getting paid less. They removed the ability to apply to go fully remote too effectively.
Step 2) Moving people to be closer in their "main offices" for their team. Again, inflating how much they need to pay.
Step 3) Suddenly, its fine to hire in lower cost of living areas, even though the team is now going to be split again.
The reason they gave for RTO was better inperson team work, but then are splitting teams again.
The pandemic proved that organizations can continue to function even if the workforce is distributed globally, plus visa processing in the US has basically ground to a halt due to systemic issues internally at USCIS.
This is the pandora's box that was opened by WFH and systemic incompetence in USCIS.
>The pandemic proved that organizations can continue to function even if the workforce is distributed globally, plus visa processing in the US has basically ground to a halt due to systemic issues internally at USCIS.
They realized this with the big offshoring boom in the late 1990s.
>This is the pandora's box that was opened by WFH and systemic incompetence in USCIS.
It is not. Companies have been offshoring as much labor as they feasibly can, and often more, for at least 3 decades.
aaomidi|1 year ago
Step 1) Forced RTO for folks who weren't officially remote back to their HCOL offices. (Also, in some orgs, fully remote people were being told they're not going to get promoted).
Note that remote folk were getting paid less. They removed the ability to apply to go fully remote too effectively.
Step 2) Moving people to be closer in their "main offices" for their team. Again, inflating how much they need to pay.
Step 3) Suddenly, its fine to hire in lower cost of living areas, even though the team is now going to be split again.
The reason they gave for RTO was better inperson team work, but then are splitting teams again.
alephnerd|1 year ago
The pandemic proved that organizations can continue to function even if the workforce is distributed globally, plus visa processing in the US has basically ground to a halt due to systemic issues internally at USCIS.
This is the pandora's box that was opened by WFH and systemic incompetence in USCIS.
Clubber|1 year ago
They realized this with the big offshoring boom in the late 1990s.
>This is the pandora's box that was opened by WFH and systemic incompetence in USCIS.
It is not. Companies have been offshoring as much labor as they feasibly can, and often more, for at least 3 decades.