[bartlebooth]

Originally Posted by ars

Speaking for software development and tech in general, this is not true and is just fear mongering, otherwise all of these companies would have already moved shop to countries with lower wages.

Ignoring the very real timezone nightmare of dealing with teams overseas, there are also security, regulation and/or quality implications when it comes to offloading or moving work overseas. Parts of the software product can be worked on overseas, and that shift already happened long before covid was even a thing(remember, these companies are looking for any way to cut costs).

I work in tech and this is exactly right.