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Posted by Mike Poole on 09/08/2020 15:41:09:

An interesting article in the Telegraph proposed that now we have discovered working from home, that home could be anywhere In the world. The export of blue collar jobs in the ‘80s could be followed by white collar jobs in the ‘20s. The world could be changing fast and soon.

Mike

The "Digital Nomad" thing has been going on for a while. Younger backpacker types from the West living semipermanently in Thailand and similar countries cheap and working over the net on computer programming, website building and whatever they can turn a buck at. Newspapers in Hong Kong were doing similar 20 years ago with some sub-editors living in cheaper Thailand and subediting the HK daily paper via the net.

Now there are websites like Freelancer.com where businesses all over the world post jobs they need doing in mostly IT fields and writing content for websites and tech documentation etc. And the freelancers cut each others' throats to get enough work to survive. Many freelancers from India and Malaysia dominating the scene, working for a few dollars an hour of hard currency that exchanges very favourably in their home country.

So yes, once Western businesses work out they can have employees working from home via computer it is only one small step to getting someone on board whose home is in a country where wage expectations are a fraction of current levels. Immigration visas stop the world's masses from flocking to the countries where the jobs are, but nothing stops the jobs going the other way to them.

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