We can't do our jobs from home, but our jobs can be outsourced to a completely different country on another continent. So they can do the same jobs we supposedly can't do from home, from India or wherever else? Make it make sense, please.
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They have contractors from multiple countries replacing jobs. A lot of people and manages were released after training offshore employees to do their job. They said they weren't going to have team leads anymore and let them go as well. I'm sure they hoped for people to quit because most jobs will probably be replaced by offshore
The outsourcing argument cuts both ways though - a lot of those foreign based contractors got fired for having multiple jobs, and plenty of those roles go to US firms that cost more than a FTE anyway. My team for example is only hiring US based contractors. And the AI replacement theory is funny when some teams still don’t even have GitHub Copilot access, and the ones that do are capped at 300 queries a month. PNC can barely standardize tooling across floors, let alone execute a secret plan to replace us with cheap bots. The frustration is valid but let’s not give them that much credit.
It's their end game. Hire a bunch of contractors and have them use AI to produce cheap and "adequate" results. The American working class is being squeezed too much, and the social contract is broken.
The Indians cost less. Firing large parts of the workforce for noncompliance with RTO or forcing them to quit over it would also cost less. In a way it makes perfect sense!