Google is laying off more employees and hiring for their roles outside of the U.S.

  • PhAzE@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    This always comes down to the fact that labor is competitive. Why pay someone $200k/yeae when someone will do the job for $80k/year? Competition drives the prices of labor down. Maybe there needs to be better regulation for labor competition like corporations enjoy.

    • gian @lemmy.grys.it
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      7 months ago

      Why pay someone $200k/yeae when someone will do the job for $80k/year?

      Assuming the same job’s quality, a possible answer is “because to live where your company is you need to be paid $200K/year”

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        7 months ago

        “because to live where your company is you need to be paid $200K/year”

        How do people live in these areas without making $200k/year?

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            7 months ago

            So nobody lives in these areas that makes under $200k/year?

            Even the janitors?

            • gian @lemmy.grys.it
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              6 months ago

              I don’t know, but if they live there, I think they have it that good.

              It is more (way more) probable that they just commute far enough away from there to have lower housing cost