[lunarhustler]

> Even if everyone works from home, there are advantages to drawing from local talent pools (people know people and can vouch for their work, cultural norms make it easier to work together, there are less labour law difficulties, there is less geopolitical risk of parts of your team being sanctioned because you hired Chinese or Russian programmers, etc, etc)

You could reframe these points so that they look like advantages of global businesses... you'll have someone to vouch for and evaluate people across multiple talent pools (increasing talent supply), the majority of your team will never be sanctioned simultaneously (diversifying that risk), and as for cultural norms, don't we all know that diversity is strength.

Saying there are no advantages to global remote first besides cost is underselling it; there are important advantages, for one

> It starts to make sense when you realise salaries are driven by the cost to replace an employee

asynchronous remote makes documentation and written communication central, which at the end of the day makes it easier to replace employees.

Cost is important too, if you can literally hire 50% more workforce that's one hell of a deal.