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So if I can outsource most of my functions to another country and pay 75% less, should I also give my US staff a 75% pay cut? [/quote]

Why wouldn't you?  Or just get rid of them entirely and outsource everything.  If you could achieve the same result for a lower price, you should do that.  And a public company is legally obligated to do this if it is in the best interest of the shareholders.

I'll never understand the love of working at home on this forum.  [b]People are just demonstrating the ease with which their jobs can be outsourced.[/b]  I worked at home for two years out of necessity and hated it.  I like having work-life separation, and I'm a shy introvert who benefits from seeing actual people in person at work.  I also made the choice to live downtown within walking distance of my job, so working at home cost me real money  (lights, heat, etc., plus dedicating some of my apartment space to my employer without being paid for it.

If working at home works for you, that's great, but there are many of us who hated it.  As soon as the pandemic was more-or-less over (February), I left that job and took an in-person job.  It was one of my better decisions.[/quote]

They really can’t be.  The jobs that can be outsourced are low skill jobs that don’t require fluent English and require very little training.  Think about it in simplistic terms.  Let’s say you decide to save $50k and outsource someone who works for you.  How would you go about doing this?  What about the time difference?  How will you train this person?  What about cultural differences?  How will you find this outsourced person to begin with?   What about differences in legal protections?

Do you enjoy dealing with call centers in India?  Think about the experience when you call a US company and are routed to someone in India who doesn’t know how to spell the name Thomas and can’t understand your problem.  It’s frustrating.  Do you want to have someone like this working for you?

I get that you dislike remote work and that it was a rough change for you. But this notion that most US office workers can now be easily outsourced is just not true.  Salaries for fluent English speakers overseas isn’t even that much cheaper, especially when you have to factor in additional expenses for hiring across the globe.  [/quote]
A lot of back office jobs are already outsourced to Poland, Philippines, India.. most of them speak passable English. It can be challenging, though, I won't sugar coat that, but it's cheap, and that's why companies do it.

Even if takes 3x longer for them to do something, they will outsource it because it's cheap.  They'll live with the back/forth, redos to save $.[/quote]

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