Offshore staff being shipped in to the UK

[d000hg]

I am contracting for a big company in the UK (I won't say which). And they seem to be constantly bringing in staff from offshore. How do they get away with it? There is no shortage of British workers. Apologies if this has been asked/answered before.

Don't you support free trade?

[eek]

"their market" , really?

and what about their market, do we have access to it?
not a hope in hell.

their market as in the ones they market and sell to.....

[Avalonia]

Don't you support free trade?

Trade as in we get their cheap labour paid peanuts, and the consultancies get the profit.

[MicrosoftBob]

I spend most of time working away from home, only once at clientco logging into remote servers to fix problems or working away from people when I'm coding to avoid distractions

It's stupid, but also means less scope for outsourcing

Sometimes client stupidity is a big win