[ghaff]

I have no personal experience but I have been told that even if you farm a lot of things out there is a certain amount of paperwork (and cost) that you have to handle in-house.

[ThePadawan]

Hm, that's a shame. That seems to me to be just accidental, not essential complexity, too.

[ghaff]

Well, a lot of it is a patchwork of government rules and regulations. Here's a long post about it from Mitchell at HashiCorp:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17022563

[ThePadawan]

Right, that's exactly what I find baffling.

Right now, if N companies want to hire in M countries, the total expenditure in HR departments is in the order of O(N*M), when it could (theoretically, ideally) be O(N + M).