it depends on whom do you stand for? as a US-based remote developer, like in this Quora thread, you for sure don't want to work via Turing/Andela/Upstack/... for a US employer, right? because Turing/Andela/Upstack/... are withholding more than 50% of your income as their profit, that's why these kinds of agencies can get high profit / high funding and high valuation from Crunchbase link you can see;
https://www.quora.com/Has-anyone-tried-Turing-Is-it-any-good...
> TL;DR: they are OK but they take more than 50% of your paycheck forever and give you practically zero benefits for it. It’s better to avoid them and wait for another opportunity.
If you're with entrepreneur mindset want to hire, or standing as US employer point of view, you'll more probably like to hire 3 oversea's remote role than a single US-based, or only hiring 1/10th in the US to manage rest of all overseas;
as I've shown in the LA based software company;
If you are already the top earning ones ($500k+), you have no concerns for yourself, but for next generation new graduates, I have seen this trend of a US company would rather hire overseas via those agencies instead of hiring the US based, I am seeing a pessimistic future for them
As of 2021, there may not be many US companies seeing this opportunity to cut R&D costs yet, but as the list of Crewscale/Turing/Andela/Upstack/... growing longer and longer, many of them are aggressively reaching to US employers for upselling remote devs (overseas), then majority of US employers will be able to see
Another example here: Invision is another US employer (New York based), back in 2019 their major hiring were still US-based W2 employment, forward to 2021 they are seeing the great opportunity to hire via upstack...
https://twitter.com/upstackhq/status/1374826625108426764