Slavery and child labor "worked just fine" before, too.

The fact is "just fine" isn't really fine for many disabled people, and years of working remotely proved that remote work is feasible and practical.

Funny how all these remote workers worked just fine before, until the PHBs called for everyone to return to office, then somehow remote working isn't fine anymore. While at the same time, outsource to India is still fine for the same PHBs. You cannot get more blatantly double standard than this, unless all PHBs have split personality.

Isn't it obvious enough yet?

To have a proper perspective, you have to keep in mind China has more than 13 million high school graduates in 2025, with only about 5 million seats in higher education.

277,000 enrollment is only 2% of the total, or about 3-4% out of those 8 million who cannot get into local universities in China.

The 100,000 or so figure throw about for other destinations is less than 1% of this year's high school graduates.

So the change is about less than 0.5%. About as significant as the Dow dropping 200 points.

Stack ranking is how you destroy a company from within, putting all your staff into a perpetual game of survivor is going to promote backstabbing at worst and information hoarding self-preservation in the least.

The sooner this Meta-stasis is gone from the world, the better for everyone.

Everyone in China have been watching all these sanctions applied to Russia, well aware that one day, the same and worse will be done to them.

Hence the Chinese have been building their own version of everything that used to rely on other countries, most recently being their own PC OS, and the most notably their own chips.

I guess we will be seeing their own gaming console in the next few years, and then Sony can say goodbye to the Chinese market.

Don't you love it that Google peeks into every one of these 1 billion messages every day?

Go ahead, pull out and never go back.

You tried that before and you are still regretting it, aren't you?

No, it does not. Especially in large companies where the people you need to communicate with are often impossible to be on the same floor anyway.

I work and communicate with teams in different offices, in different countries, and in different timezones. Being in office or not makes no difference since we have to do zoom calls or messages anyway.

Everyone working at home is actually more effective since there is often less background noise in zoom calls and everyone often attends on time. People in office are often late to the zoom calls because they have to go to meeting rooms or quiet rooms before joining, or everyone just talk over each other in the open office.

The only people who thinks communication is happening in the office are middle managers who see everybody talking in the busy office, what they did not know is everyone are on different zoom calls and are mentally shutting out other people talking in the same office.

Exactly. If no one noticed, who cares?

Oh! Microsoft actually layoff people straight and clean, rather than the roundabout evil underhanded way that Google did.

Who would have thought?

Hahaha, somehow, this wasn't even a consideration when outsourcing jobs to India. But it became very important when it comes to American workers, including those who originally came from India.

Umm... does that mean Indians in India have great work ethics, but somehow lost it all after coming to America? Or was work ethic not a real reason at all and just an excuse to force American workers to suffer so they will quit on their own?

The point is they *changed* the rule, and for no apparent reason except to make their employees miserable.

Yeah, we all know Google is evil already.

Trump tried that last time, the result was a huge increase in US imports from countries like Mexico and Vietnam, with a corresponding increase in Chinese exports to those same countries.

Even Trump figured out what was happening, so he decided to raise tariffs for everyone to close off that loophole.

Why? This is America, things happen because someone is going to profit from it, that's why.

Could there be any other reason?

Only time will tell if what they salvaged is worth saving.

I would bet this is a waste of money. It would be better to just buy the IP of the games and develop them entirely within China.

In the past two years, you can tell if a game was developed in Asia just by looking at the main character of the game.