I think the question you raise has the potential to be interesting really interesting, but not really the direction you took it.<p>My $.02: If the only thing that made you a better candidate than your competition in East Asia is that your company mandated working within an office, then you probably don't have a valuable skillset in the first place, right? There's some really smart people in those parts of the world, but the average candidate they're gonna get is just not gonna be even in the same ballpark. Now that being said, we all know that management is not perfectly rational (or for many of us, is almost pathologically irrational), so that doesn't mean a myopic suit might not erroneously decide that they might as well hire cheap labor overseas. Still though, it's really not something I spend any time worrying about.<p>What I do find interesting, and you alluded to this a bit, is the set of companies who do not allow work-from-home (or, allow work-from-home but do not allow truly remote employees - this seems to be so common these days), may collectively realize "wait a second, we all worked from home during this massive global pandemic and things didn't grind to a screeching halt, maybe remote work isn't something to be afraid of". That would be a really interesting development.