Outsourcing has been around much longer than the recent trend for home working, but the remote outsourcing apocalypse has still yet to appear. Whenever it’s attempted it turns out outsourcing many kinds of jobs is a lot harder than it seems.
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florge@feddit.uk 7 months ago
If a job is able to be done fully remotely, a company will outsource it to somewhere like the philippines rather than pay someone UK wages.
thehatfox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
TigrisMorte@kbin.social 7 months ago
They need folks that can do the work and outsourcing has proven mostly a failure in that.
cynar@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not always. Most and more companies are discovering the problems with culture and timezone mismatches. UK work from home still has a place.
The catch is this is generally for better paying roles. The bottom of the barrel ones go abroad. Unfortunately the Tories are likely trying to force disabled people into exactly these roles. 🤬
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 7 months ago
"You have been reported for non-compliance in your working-from-home role as a supermarket shelf stacker. You were offered full and complete training and the opportunity to work from home and yet the Tesco Superstore to which you were assigned reports you have stacked no shelves. You will be sanctioned - including but not limited to your entire benefits payment - for a period of not less than 60 months. Those benefits will, instead, be paid directly to the shareholders of Tesco plc.