A very short if sluggish commute from Thatcham to Vodafone. How long will it take companies to realise that if they can employ someone several hundred miles away in Britain then they can employ someone several thousands of miles away for a fraction of the salary?
That would certailnly be a novel approach to levelling up...
Until the pandemic, I provided face to face training - which I was in the process of winding down and retiring from, though I was still teaching a really good client who swore by my product and had been using us for years. Happy to train them online when we hit lockdown, but their powers-that-be insisted they accept the lower bid from a company in Malaysia, even though the delegates, technical managers and training admins were less than thrilled. Counter to that, I could have chosen to take the other large client at that point and move from a
UK▸ based / training in UK and Europe setup to bidding worldwide though there San Diego operation (with whom I got and get on very well).