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Fortune
Jane Thier

Remote work could be why you lose your high-paying job

Man looking out of hotel window at Shinjuku business district (Credit: Grant Faint—Getty Images)

“If you can do your job from home, be scared. Be very scared,” Richard Baldwin, an economics professor at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland, said back in November 2021. “Because somebody in India or wherever is willing to do it for much less.”

Baldwin may have been aiming at people’s fears when he said that a year-and-a-half ago. But his predictions are catching fire among more and more bosses. 

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