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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
Do you know how many companies had to scramble in 2020 to get things like chat tools, laptops, video calls and VPNs up?
An utter crap ton. For everyone that did so, they just removed an IT barrier to outsourcing that they'd been uninterested investing in for the previous decade, because expense. Many of these companies also believed you needed to be in the office to do work, and now saw evidence that wasn't true.
Yes there was outsourcing before, amount of companies willing to take that path and the roles they considered for it opened up significantly post pandemic.
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Yes, I had to do the same(though I had most of it working before). My point is, blaming workers for favouring WFH, as if corporations won't do whatever is possible to save money, is silly. The entire goal of a corporation is to maximize profits. Bringing a WFH employee back to the office actually costs money once you get past the psychological pretzling management does trying to force it because they think people need babysitting. It seems they've acknowledged that's always been nonsense, and are continuing to do what corporations do, outsource to save money. None of this has anything to do with employees wanting some of their own time back from commuting and all the time wasting that goes on in offices and money spent on food and coffee and clothes, and to use that time and resources to do other life things. Again, blaming workers for this is just folding to corporate motivations. We should stop doing that.