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About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off
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Man, techworkers are really into getting laid off huh?
Jokes aside, why is this happening so much recently?
Now that "everyone" works from home, a lot of companies figure it cost a lot less to hire Indians to do that than Americans.
This isn't accurate. Outsourcing tech jobs has been a thing since the 90s. It rarely works at scale which is why it never stuck around. It's just as risky today as it was back then.