The power of brainstorming in person will become more and more evident as time goes by. Remote tech jobs will just be good to support routine tasks, which will eventually be automated. It is correct to pay more people willing to live close to the HQ (or big hub) of a company

my friend's sister was getting paid, $10K in India. She got married and came to Chicago, she is making 100K+ both jobs are remote. There are thousands like that in her previous company. Its psychological barrier, you can hire even brighter according to her, for 10K overseas.

That is assuming delivery and customer service is a commodity. I work with domestic and global teams and having a strong ping of contact is worth the premium.

GDPR adequacy and similar will be a constraint for many industries and countries for a while. ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-to…

Do you think GDP per capita of the country where the employee lives should matter?

Cultural and linguistic differences make project communication and execution more expensive, ergo less demand for some pools of foreign labor

I live in Argentina and we are already witnessing the rise of a new socioeconomic class of young people working remotely in tech that make 10x the average salary of their local non-tech peers

Do timezones still matter? I think they do.

The irony that this will be worst for US developers, since they are the ones screaming the most about their rights to move with their salary level kept.

If employers can get away with paying less than they should, 99% will do that. Even Google pays differently depending on where people live within US (or so I heard). It doesn't make sense but it works in employers' favor, and unless employees riot the status quo won't change