What are your thoughts on 100% remote opportunities for CD?
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I meant hiring remote talent legally. In today's world, plenty of solutions exist for this (companies like Deel, Pilot or Remote). Similarly to hiring devs from India or Eastern Europe (as internal employees, not outsourced deals), I personally believe this should be possible for the CD function of large organizations. Thoughts? Specially when those organizations already have legal entities incorporated in those countries (but have mostly devs and SWE, not CD leaders).
I was thinking that barriers for this could be:
1) Strong culture on control over CD function (e.g., if CD folks are located near HQ, C-level has more control over the CD function). CD has generally been elitist and a prestigious function to get into (IVY leage talent-only type of thing). I believe this is flawed and driven by culturally-wrong misconceptions.
2) Confidentiality-driven risks: C-level wants to keep CD work highly confidential, specially at publicly-traded companies and avoid negative impact on brand because of potential insider-trading situations, etc. Similar to what happens in the Defense industry with nationalized foreign USA residents - not allowed to work in Defense even if they got the US nationality.
3) Lack of trust in remote teams productivity: probably also driven by old office-based culture but personally agree this has to change as well. Having a remote team allows you to work 24h a day across different time-zones, and allows you to hire the best talent worldwide not just in HQ location (highly unlikely talent in HQ is best-in-class in the industry, honestly)
Thoughts?
Unfortunately not…
Probably not for tax reasons. Most of the time it’s illegal for me to work in a different country much less live there. Exceptions do exist but they are exceptions. I’m not sure about any of this, that’s my gut reaction based on my experience with tax law. Good luck! (I would stay in Europe if I was you)