It all boils down to one simple thing… CONTROL
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The idea that the job of a remote employee in the US can be done by an employee in another country is total hogwash.
First of all, working on Fed business requires US citizenship. Everything you work on is basically engrained in that line.
Second, the US business is not well understood by other countries (many barriers) and if Dell doesn’t understand they need US workers this will be the downfall.
Third, this applies to US working on international business - such as EMEA and Asia. You need to have workers working in the countries where that business is happening. US business is completely different model. Why are we making things difficult man!
Enough with the globalization. Do what’s right.
What about people who work in a US office who get mad when their jobs are relocated to other parts of the world?
As if THAT has never happened!
What about toxic people who say that they can do their job from anywhere in the world, but then get mad when we hire people in other parts of the world?
Following the same logic: if your job can be done in an office in the US, it can be done in an office elsewhere in the world. Saying that because you're working in a US office means somehow that your job can't be offshored is nonsense. If you're saying that sitting in a chair in a US office means you're more valuable than some remote worker, well, they can pay someone minimum wage to sit in a chair. Remote US workers also buy goods and services and contribute to the economy.
Covid was a test for all of this. If your job can be done remotely, it can be done anywhere in the world. If this happens in any significant numbers, what are people going to do for jobs? Who is going to consume to keep the economy going?
Remote work highlights the lack of need for many managers. If they spend half their day wandering around and looking over shoulders rather than doing something productive, then their superiors may notice the lack of need for them.
"In fact its much easier to do less work on site than it was remote."
Yup 2 of my teams "top performers" are in office 5x a week but spend at least 3 hours a day shooting the breeze and watching Netflix. I really don't want to lose my job, but part of me secretly hopes they are the last two people standing and then management realizes who really works and who is just good at making their KPIs look good.
they hate remote work when it suits them. It suited them during covid as the business could keep running with little to no impact. Now its just being used to make as many people uncomfortable as possible in the hope that many will leave. Dell is not the only company using it as a downsizing tool.
I would put money on it that if it was the other way around, they would be closing offices and forcing people to work remotely or commute to another office as a way of making them feel pain and leave.
The only control they have on me is forcing me to badge in enough times a week to not trigger the naughty list. What i do or do not do on site is under my control and is easily massaged to make myself look busy without any quantifiable data to prove I am or am not. In fact its much easier to do less work on site than it was remote.