Unfortunately I think the „remote work“ and „work from home“ culture contributed a lot to it. It made it totally acceptable to work with people that you won’t meet anyway in reality.
If you're job can be done from home, it can also be done from India.
Thats the reallity we are living now.
@obrhoff Not exactly true.
Remote work != Remote work in certain time zones.
Our sliver of our company started with a rough policy of you can work anywhere in EU timezones. Other timezones were considered only in exceptional circumstances.
And that's basically true. My coworkers, down under, are basically on a one message and one answer per 24 hours work mode.
Now if I think to our early days, how I interacted with our CTO, he suggesting a way to analyse data, me coming back 30m with the
@obrhoff result, and potentially iterating a couple of times a day to get progress, nope, you will not get with somebody in a time zone +12h away.
On top, you get aspects like knowing the locale (it's hilarious what errors we make about Asians, but also the other way around), and the ugly truth that good Indian IT people are not growing on trees. Plus, some Eastern Europeans are quite competitive on living expenses, sadly, with at least some parts of India.
obrhoff
Andreas K