to be clear, i’ve worked remotely, and i know exactly how the social dynamics can suck. maybe this would be a reasonable argument for why you wouldn’t do it for a 30% pay raise. but the disparity is so enormous (anywhere between a 2x and 100x, depending on where you are in the world and how good you are) that there must surely be a lot of people who would take the money and deal with it.
Yes, it can work. Reflecting more I think the issue is maybe that you need to be clear from the beginimg wether you are telling your overseas workers ‘your timetable will suck but we are paying super over the odds to cover that’ or are doing something more ‘normal’. (+100% vs +30%). The first was never the bargain in my example above, hence some of the frustration.
Both have advantages and disadvantages. In the former, the employees will just accept the timetable. But, you will mostly get younger, more junior (single) people, and they wont be the most capable or best qualified people, who will go for something normal. I suspect high turnover, a couple of years of highly paid nocturnal behaivior to then take that experience to try and get a more normal job where you can actually have a family, makes sense.
Instead of a ‘half move’ you have the alternative of a ‘full move’, where you move the whole operation (taking the people you need with you). On a much smaller scale some software companies did this a decade or two ago by moving from London to Bristol where property prices were lower (very short move, they are only 1.5 hours appart by train.)
you could also move to some country like Paraguay with relatively lax immigration laws and a US timezone, and work remotely from there. this is probably a better option than nocturnal living for a lot of people.
to be clear, i’ve worked remotely, and i know exactly how the social dynamics can suck. maybe this would be a reasonable argument for why you wouldn’t do it for a 30% pay raise. but the disparity is so enormous (anywhere between a 2x and 100x, depending on where you are in the world and how good you are) that there must surely be a lot of people who would take the money and deal with it.
Yes, it can work. Reflecting more I think the issue is maybe that you need to be clear from the beginimg wether you are telling your overseas workers ‘your timetable will suck but we are paying super over the odds to cover that’ or are doing something more ‘normal’. (+100% vs +30%). The first was never the bargain in my example above, hence some of the frustration.
Both have advantages and disadvantages. In the former, the employees will just accept the timetable. But, you will mostly get younger, more junior (single) people, and they wont be the most capable or best qualified people, who will go for something normal. I suspect high turnover, a couple of years of highly paid nocturnal behaivior to then take that experience to try and get a more normal job where you can actually have a family, makes sense.
Instead of a ‘half move’ you have the alternative of a ‘full move’, where you move the whole operation (taking the people you need with you). On a much smaller scale some software companies did this a decade or two ago by moving from London to Bristol where property prices were lower (very short move, they are only 1.5 hours appart by train.)
you could also move to some country like Paraguay with relatively lax immigration laws and a US timezone, and work remotely from there. this is probably a better option than nocturnal living for a lot of people.