[HillRat]

I’ve seen some contracting firms do domestic “ruralshoring,” but IMO recruitment costs become controlling due to the lower density of talent and general difficulty with remote management as a practice. The common approach is to concentrate on small university towns that have a young CS talent pool — similar to Epic’s hiring approach — but eventually your talent moves to urban areas for culture/amenity/economy reasons, so you end up with a predominantly young remote workforce, which brings its own managerial issues.