[quote=no_such_reality][quote=The-Shoveler]Outsourcing to India is not as easy as it sounds and not a cheap as it used to be.
(unless you want lousy work done).
Very very hard to get someone there at 11:00 AM here and work for more than a few months before quitting,
Actually much easier to hire someone here to work from midnight to 9 AM than it is in India.[/quote]
Doesn’t matter, the decisions makers don’t believe your excuses and the people selling the services blow massive sunshine saying otherwise.
In the end, it’s a spreadsheet showing a guy like flu making $200K a year here and a guy ‘like’ flu there making the equivalent of $40k.
Mid-level technical people can be staffed for sub-$10/hr there.
Thin the herd, make the staffing someone elses problem, give them a margin slice and take a fabled 30% of your labor expense.[/quote]
Well it’s funny that you should mention that…Because right now, my senior managers are finding they need about 9 people to cover all the things I was previously working on. If I didn’t like my VP so much, I really like my VP so I’m doing what I can think of to ensure a smooth transition…
because my VP’s is one of the few that totally doesn’t try to offshore things as the first idea, despite all the headwind they are getting from the bean counters….If it was any other type of senior manager bean counter that was trying to get me train an overseas team, I would have refused. I think there’s a hidden code we’re trying to hand off as much as possible to our domestic locations because we know the results will be better….
