He also expresses concern about the rise of protectionism in the US and its impact on his former company’s culture. “A lot of strategic roles and higher-level roles were stripped away and pushed back to the US, and roles in Apac are diminished in agency,” he says.

that is mostly big earner like singaporean problem, better just get american if the cost is just a bit higher.
for malaysia workers, uhhmmm yeah lets wait for a bit ya.
however, AI is major disruptor, low wage worker also hard to compete with it.

its mostly about value, my dear. many have fallen to india, but some do came back, maybe the output provided were not as expected.
omputeh get the best position is true, but they have lost tons of low-level positions.
the company i work, always the regional leader ancam the workers to delivers, if not, succumb to india instead.

menwhile our imported bharat working here were being paid damn handsomely, so made me think are bharat operated in india being paid damn cheap compared to malaysian?
last company that i work we had indian team doing the same stuff as us,this team replacing our existing shanghai team, guess what, that india team kena tutup less than a year, we need to expand our team to cover up the shits lel.so we just expand our team by 5 people to replace around 10 people of those india team and it works just fine lel.