I was hit by layoffs but just got several offers. One thing I've noticed is that startups and smaller companies are moving more junior work offshore but are still keeping the higher roles in house (I'm a Principal). Most of the companies I interviewed with talked about working with teams off shore. I will say that a couple of the companies did this for prototyping but were in the process of reversing it and bringing roles back to the US.

Long term I think this is going to result in some interesting changes- senior people don't just come from no where, they're junior people who gained experience and continued learning.

I’ve been saying this for a while, but a decade from now we’re gonna look back with wonder at the fact that workers in the US had more power than a long time in 2021-2022 and they used all of that to make it easy to move their jobs overseas and destroy the advantages they had over their peers from poor countries.

If you insist that remote working is as good as being physically present with your colleagues, then you’re basically telling companies that the reason they were paying higher salaries to their American employees doesn’t actually exist.

As a Europoor it might actually increase our wages at least!

Outsourcing always existed and was the main driver during 2010-2012 era where a lot of jobs went to offshore. Remote work did not change anything.