Even in a European with lower wages compared to US, total cost of a developer will be minimum 5000 euros/per month. And that's just salary with all taxes, not accounting laptop costs, office space, etc.

You just need a 4% increase of productivity to make those $200 worth it.

> Even in a European with lower wages compared to US, total cost of a developer will be minimum 5000 euros/per month. And that's just salary with all taxes, not accounting laptop costs, office space, etc.

lolololol

> You just need a 4% increase of productivity to make those $200 worth it.

who “needs” that and who pays for it?

the employer for both?

high school economics class is not how the world works, regrettably.

I guess the world doesn't work like that because employers don't even understand high school economics.

They'd rather have an employee spend 2 weeks on a task than shell out a few bucks at it, because they don't realize the 2 weeks of salary is more expensive than the external expense.

You’re making the erroneous assumption that the productivity gains would meaningfully generate revenue for the business to offset additional costs.

Plus development work is quite bursty — a productivity gain for developers does not necessarily translate into more prospects in a sales pipeline.