HACKER Q&A
📣 nomy99

Post Covid, will software be mostly outsourced?


Working at a top company in NYC, was told a lot of work will be outsourced. Is outsourcing making a comeback? Should we be worried?


  👤 NovaVeles Accepted Answer ✓
It is a wave that has come before and will come again.

Task gets out sourced. They save some money initially. Managers how did it get a promotion and then skips out to the next company. Out sourced work ends up costing more than the original in house work. In house work grows. Rinse and repeat.

If you can survive the wave you will be fine. It just depends on how brutal they get with the initial lay off.


👤 jleyank
Others have pointed out that if things could have been successfully outsourced they would have been (well?) before COVID. Other than proving that your existing staff could work outside the office, how did COVID show that offshoring/outsourcing would be ok?