Recently a business that I co-own needed to hire someone and the role is essentially administrative so in actuality it can be done from anywhere. It was suggested to me that we use a foreign company to provide support. This person is politically right and dislikes the shit going on but unironically made this suggestion. I pushed back against it and paraphrasing myself here but told them I get pissed off when I hear about our government doing it, or big corporations doing it, I sure as shit am not going to do it myself even if it could save us some money. We hired an American, albeit in another state. Not only that, I went nepotistic and hired a close friend, someone we both know and trust. Maybe the world will go to hell in a hand basket but if it does, it won't be because I put more fuel on the fire. I can't control the world BUT I CAN control myself and my own decisions.
Reject modernity. Embrace tradition. Be the change you want to see in your nation. Talk the talk, and more importantly walk the walk. Check out of the systems trying to turn us into cattle, and don't water the tree they intend to hang you from.
Our company actually started developing a whole new sales platform with the thought the "Engineers" would do such an amazing job at building it, that the work operations does can be greatly simplified and we can outsource the bulk of the work to a company in India.
We spent probably a YEAR training these Indians to do the job and found their overall output, and quality wasn't worth the lower cost because the cost ended up being relatively the same if not a negative due to all the time spent training and re-training and re-training...
Engineers didn't walk their talk and USA operations is now holding everything together.
At the same time.... A lot of the originals in Operations got promoted up, and we decided to hire a LOT of people out of the area so they're all working remotely when we have a big ass fkin office that 3 people per week go into.
Guess what the new problem is? New US hires aren't learning the finer tricks of the trade... Because working remote closes off a lot of the finer communication.
100% People don't realize how vital in person work really is. Is it possible to do it remote, yes but it's also dependent on shared communication styles, background etc. If you have a big enough team, in person is vital.
In person work is the fastest way to get promoted anywhere.
I'd say good work is the fastest way, but in person helps too.
The move to remote work "to help working mothers" (which is utter bullshit btw) is a huge contributor to these problems. Nobody thinks they have to verbally communicate anymore, just send a snippy email.