I've decided to just embrace hiring remotely, but doing it overseas in LATAM, South Africa, India etc.
Salaries are maybe 1/3 of the cost, as their living costs are a fraction. Quality variance is worse yes but you can easily use platforms like hotsourced to find very good people now.
Its been a complete game changer for us. We can afford amazing people that we pay way more than their local market rate, and we even have a couple extra staff members so people can finish at a reasonable time. And we're still saving $200k a year, across 10 staff members.
Feel like we're at a pivotal moment now, where almost every business is incentivised to do this. Not sure what roles will remain here? Where does this go?
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
No idea what's happening in the UK, their data portals are awful. If you want to know specific names of companies, look at their job portals. My own company hired developers in the US this year.
There is a huge disconnect between the worker experience and whatever the job numbers say, similar to the disconnect between consumer sentiment and the stock market/corporate profits.