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I wonder how long a comfortable life of us based purely remote work will be feasible. Will these types of jobs be taken by a global workforce? Will systems improve enough that cloud consulting will no longer be needed?

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Unfortunately, remote work is now facing an oversupply (more people want remote jobs than are available). There are studies that have shown that people are often willing to forego a 6.8% premium in exchange for a remote job.

It is beginning to look like the start of a slippery (downward) slope for white-collar wages, I'm afraid.

> Unfortunately, remote work is now facing an oversupply (more people want remote jobs than are available).

Citation needed. I’ve seen this repeated without evidence several times here, but is it reality?

There are do appear to be more people who want remote jobs than there are remote jobs, but whether or not you're actually in competition with all of those is an entirely different question.

Only 6.8%? Unless I'm living paycheck to paycheck, 6.8% is an absolute bargain for 5 hours of more free time each week, assuming a 30min commute.

5h/week are equivalent to at least 4 weeks of PTO in a year.

Plus, vehicle maintenance costs, gas costs, and I can do chores around the house any time I want which saves even more time because I don't have to plan my day around the washing machine.

I wonder this also.

As someone who manages a team off highly talented offshore developers, who are working for a fraction of the pay that US developers get, it makes me concerned that this is all going to average out.

And if it averages out, US-based tech. employees will be in for quite the shock.

I see the same thing. Meanwhile watching offshore salaries go up up up month after month for senior devs (5+ yrs xp)

My entire department is remote. My specific job requires some amount of travel to company’s sites, a lot of conference calls, presentations, etc. Some of my customers require US citizenship (government contracts) and many more have data governance requirements that don’t allow offshore workers.

Andy Jassy, the former CEO of AWS and current CEO of AWS, has said repeatedly in public statements that less than 5% of all IT spend is currently on any cloud provider.

There is a long way to go

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