Realizing The Additional Expense Of Offshoring
from the no-surprise-there dept
Srinivasan Patel writes in with a link to the latest in a long line of stories talking about how offshoring isn't as cheap as people make it out to be. This isn't a surprise, at all. We've been saying this since people first started freaking out about offshoring last year. What's amusing, though, is that all the people who have been the most vehement against offshoring and for protectionism are the ones hyping up these articles - even though they actually give support to the idea that protectionism isn't needed.
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You get 1/6 of what you paid for.
You get what you pay for.
You hire someone for 1/6th of what a skilled technology worker usually gets & you can expect 1/6th of the amount of satisfaction.
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Luckily, I still have a strong back that is willing to labor. Physical presence doesn't offshore well.
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It is best to spell epithets questioning the intellectual capacity of one with whom you disagree correctly, else you yourself might end up looking like a slack-wit.
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Rick
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Offshoring and outsourcing.
There are two sorts of "offshoring" and the dynamics for both are different. One model is intra company offshoring which is what companies like IBM and GE have done. You can bet that, from the companies point of view, this model is quite successful.
The other model is offshore outsourcing. With this model the problems are similar to onshore outsourcing. If you method of selecting a company involves the use of a coin then the results are likely to be the same irrespective of whether the company is onshore or offshore.
However, in both models, there is an approx. 10:1 ratio in labor costs. Ultimately this means that onshore software developement cannot survive.
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