Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
The arrival of the novel coronavirus and subsequent shutdowns of economies across the globe have caused hardships not seen in generations. But for business professors, it's also a once-in-a-generation research opportunity.
USC Marshall Assistant Professor of Marketing and Kenneth King Stonier Assistant Professor of Business Administration Davide Proserpio was one of the first academics to study the sharing economy as he completed his Ph.D. Today he is considered a leading expert in the so-called "gig" economy. We asked him five questions about how the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant shutdown are affecting the sector.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday June 11 2020, @01:19PM (2 children)
That ship started sailing half a century ago. If they haven't done so by now, indicates that there was some advantage to employing people in the developed world. That advantage isn't going away just because of coronavirus. Further, that pay differential is much lower now than it was way back when. Having a mean salary higher than the US's minimum wage (which all four of your linked countries do) is a very new thing. The world is running out of cheap labor.
Great non sequitur. Those other mid or lower end US employees whose jobs could actually be moved somewhere aren't a lot of things when they aren't cops. They aren't government jobs. They aren't heavily unionized jobs. And they usually aren't jobs where performance and task outcome are routinely ignored. For example of the last part, consider the usual outcome of a cop killing someone unlawfully: put on leave, sometimes disciplined, and rarely tried for a crime - it's more important to protect the cop than to correct bad performance. Or how weakly the police will try to recovery your stuff when someone steals it - it isn't important to them whether you recover from the crime or not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2020, @02:58AM (1 child)
Guess you're one of those developed world workers who aren't smart enough to realize that's a different ship.
For years many people who could work from home weren't allowed to by their employers/bosses. If that ship really did sail, they would have been working from home already!
Now that has changed. Significantly more employers are saying many/all of their employees can continue to work from home indefinitely.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday June 12 2020, @01:44PM
For a few months. There's no reason to expect it to stick around after the emergency is over.