Remote work may be a blessing for Americans who enjoy not having to commute to the office, but experts are warning that workers should be careful what they wish for because companies could easily hire someone overseas to do the same job for much less money.
High-paid tech workers could find themselves out of a job within a decade if companies continue to outsource those positions overseas, the experts said.
“If people that code for Google and Facebook were able to live wherever in the US they wanted and [work] for a year and a half without ever going to the office, it seems very, very likely that a lot of companies will be rethinking this longer-term and outsourcing those kinds of jobs that didn’t used to be outsourced,” MIT assistant professor Anna Stansbury told Fortune.
The Post has sought comment from Google and Facebook.
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