>> The tsunami of burnout may be coming - but will it really matter to those creating it?
Companies used to be at the mercy of workers, we no longer are. The moment employees get out of line, work starts to shift to H1B workers who are too afraid to complain. If they start complaining, work then shifts to offshore resources. You can pay 1/3 of the wage and have 2 offshore workers and have contingencies.
The onshore workers see this and fall into line, especially H1Bs.
Work is sufficiently granular and microservice-ififed that you can swap people in and out. The vice keeps tightening.
You speak the truth. I work for a 100k employee multinational company and “we” just started entered the third phase- replacing US based employees with offshore alternatives. India and Brazil. I’m still waiting what’s coming next.
Companies used to be at the mercy of workers, we no longer are. The moment employees get out of line, work starts to shift to H1B workers who are too afraid to complain. If they start complaining, work then shifts to offshore resources. You can pay 1/3 of the wage and have 2 offshore workers and have contingencies.
The onshore workers see this and fall into line, especially H1Bs.
Work is sufficiently granular and microservice-ififed that you can swap people in and out. The vice keeps tightening.