{"id":497972,"date":"2022-10-03T20:16:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T17:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/remote-work-could-cost-americans-their-jobs-within-decade-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T20:16:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T17:16:33","slug":"remote-work-could-cost-americans-their-jobs-within-decade-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/remote-work-could-cost-americans-their-jobs-within-decade-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"#Remote work could cost Americans their jobs within decade, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26b6db9f04c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26b6db9f04c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/remote-work-could-cost-americans-their-jobs-within-decade-experts-say\/#%E2%80%9CRemote_work_could_cost_Americans_their_jobs_within_decade_experts_say%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Remote work could cost Americans their jobs within decade, experts say&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CRemote_work_could_cost_Americans_their_jobs_within_decade_experts_say%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Remote work could cost Americans their jobs within decade, experts say&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Remote work may be a blessing for Americans who enjoy not having to commute to the office, but experts are warning that workers should be careful what they wish for because companies could easily hire someone overseas to do the same job for much less money.<\/p>\n<p>High-paid tech workers could find themselves out of a job within a decade if companies continue to outsource those positions overseas, the experts said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf people that code for\u00a0Google\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0were able to live wherever in the US they wanted and [work] for a year and a half without ever going to the office, it seems very, very likely that a lot of companies will be rethinking this longer-term and outsourcing those kinds of jobs that didn\u2019t used to be outsourced,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/09\/29\/companies-outsourcing-remote-knowledge-workers\/?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark\">MIT assistant professor Anna Stansbury told Fortune.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Post has sought comment from Google and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Stansbury said that back-end engineers and others could be found for less money in places like India. Other experts agree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you can do your job from home, be scared. Be very scared,\u201d Richard Baldwin, an economics professor at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cepr.org\/voxeu\/vox-webcasts\/telemigration-and-development-how-many-services-jobs-will-be-offshored\">told the European-based Center for Economic Policy Research.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/remote-workers-foreign-02.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Companies who employ remote workers could pay lower wages to those who do the same job but from overseas, according to analysts.\" class=\"wp-image-24101982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/remote-workers-foreign-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/remote-workers-foreign-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/remote-workers-foreign-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Companies who employ remote workers could pay lower wages to those who do the same job but from overseas, according to analysts.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images\/iStockphoto<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBecause somebody in India or wherever is willing to do it for much less.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Baldwin and his research partner, Jonathan Dingel, authored a paper titled <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/system\/files\/working_papers\/w29387\/w29387.pdf\">\u201cTelemigration and Development: On the Offshoreability of Teleworkable Jobs.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Baldwin and Dingel categorize jobs into four groups \u2014 \u201chighly offshoreable,\u201d \u201coffshoreable,\u201d \u201chard to offshore\u201d and \u201cnon-offshoreable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A job is considered \u201chighly offshoreable\u201d if an employee doesn\u2019t need to be physically near a US work location and if they also don\u2019t need to be close to a group or unit in their department.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/remote-workers-india-03.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Tech firms could easily look to places like India, where a highly educated workforce can do the same jobs as Americans but for lower wages.\" class=\"wp-image-24102007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/remote-workers-india-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/remote-workers-india-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/remote-workers-india-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Tech firms could easily look to places like India, where a highly educated workforce can do the same jobs as Americans but for lower wages.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Many US-based companies have long outsourced their call centers to countries like India, where English-speaking workers are available to provide round-the-clock service.<\/p>\n<p>A recent analysis by the Labor Department found that the highest paying jobs such as software engineers and internet publishing are easier to do remotely, while low-paying work such as retail and food service are harder to do remotely, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2022\/08\/26\/remote-work-outsourcing-globalization\/\">according to The Washington Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, fast-food workers may have a reason to be <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>rehensive.<\/p>\n<p>Freshii, a fast food chain headquartered in Toronto, has already started to outsource cashier jobs to workers based in places like Nicaragua, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/transcripts\/1126167551\">according to National Public Radio.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A customer reported to NPR that as they were heading to pay for their meal at a Toronto location, they noticed that instead of a live cashier at the checkout counter they were guided to a tablet-sized screen.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/remote-workers-usa-01.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Companies in tech as well as the food service sector have already started offshoring jobs.\" class=\"wp-image-24102659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/remote-workers-usa-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/remote-workers-usa-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/remote-workers-usa-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Companies in tech as well as the food service sector have already started offshoring jobs.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The screen then showed the face of a woman who was working as a virtual cashier, though while the customer was in Toronto, the employee was processing the order thousands of miles away from her home country of Nicaragua, according to NPR.<\/p>\n<p>The Post has sought comment from Freshii.<\/p>\n<p>Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic more than two-and-a-half years ago, more Americans are working remotely.<\/p>\n<p>A survey <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/industries\/real-estate\/our-insights\/americans-are-embracing-flexible-work-and-they-want-more-of-it\">conducted by McKinsey<\/a> found that 58% of Americans reported working from home at least one day per week, while 35% were afforded the option to work from home five days a week at some point during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>When given the opportunity, 87% of workers said they take advantage of the chance to work from home, according to the survey.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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