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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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The other primary consideration is acceptance. If I had suggested a Skype meeting in, say, 2019, I'd have had one or two people interested in it, but most would have seen it as an enormous irritant and been uninterested. Obviously, 2020 changed that entirely.
So, you have these industries now that see this kind of thing as commonplace, people clamouring for not working in an office, and a talent pool around the world who are willing to work for far less than people in North America. How would you anticipate that a corporation would act?