Here in Bristol one of the RAC offices is closing and relocating abroad. This bloody practise of shutting up office and moving them to India because of cheap Labour, makes me cross. Not that I resent them getting jobs but have you tried ringing directory Enquiries lately? "Can you spell Breestel for me"
So this article made me quite smug.
Off Shoring... ahh there's a name for it.
At the time, India had been experiencing an IT employment boom similar to that of Silicon Valley in the late '90s. According to the vice president, the workforce was not stable as a result. Transportation difficulties and the importance of time with family in Indian culture meant that employees generally worked eight-hour days -- the concept of the Silicon Valley engineer who goes sleepless at release time was, well, foreign.
In the end, the cost of offshoring the branch office was only 20 percent less than the going rate in the United States, and for cultural reasons, far more face time than initially expected was needed to ensure the commitment U.S. management demanded -- which resulted in trips to India at least once per quarter. The vice president emphasized that offshoring can indeed work but said it's a mistake to assume that managing offshore IT is in any way equivalent to managing local IT or that cost savings will be as dramatic as you might expect.
But this article is a year old.... and more and more companies are doing it...Kinda sad huh?
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