BBC on site offshoring podcast download?

[icarus]

I missed that BBC File on Four episode about on site offshoring that was broadcast around June 8. I can't find the podcast on the BBC site. Anyone know where I can download it?

[cojak]

I missed that BBC File on Four episode about on site offshoring that was broadcast around June 8. I can't find the podcast on the BBC site. Anyone know where I can download it?

You're too late - it gets wiped after 7 days.

You might find it on Youtube or other sites...

[Platypus]

It was called "Pay retreat" broadcast on Tuesday 2 June 2009

Transcript available here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/h...fo4_itjobs.pdf

[expat]

...temporary assignments which call for the IT professional to spend some time based in the UK. Those are not permanent UK jobs and that's why it's not displacing UK workers from permanent jobs.

-- Keith Sharp, marketing director, Tata

Got the picture?

[Troll]

On an Immigration raid...

OFFICER:Our aim now is to find a passport for him. If we can do that, the guy is going to be put into detention pending when I get authorisation from my inspector to remove him.
He’s got no family here or anything like that, so there’s no mitigating circumstances. Our aim is to send him home if we can. Chances are we may not find a passport, in which case we’ll have to give him a temporary release and make a passport application on his behalf to the Embassy and send him back to wherever he’s been living in the Wembley area, but give him reporting restrictions so that we keep tabs on him, so that once the document does come through, we can then send him home. That’s it

CUFFE: What are the chances of him just disappearing into the
woodwork, though?

OFFICER: Erm, that all depends on them. Some stick to the rules
and then some that you think are the most honest people in the world disappear off the face
of the earth.

[icarus]

Thanks for the link. Pretty depressing reading though.

CUFFE: It is hard to understand why so many companies use
this system if there isn’t a cost advantage to doing so.

SHARP: It’s because of the value that they can achieve from
commissioning work from companies that pull in the best of international expertise.

That certainly hasn't been my experience.

[expat]

Thanks for the link. Pretty depressing reading though.

Quote:
CUFFE: It is hard to understand why so many companies use
this system if there isn’t a cost advantage to doing so.

SHARP: It’s because of the value that they can achieve from
commissioning work from companies that pull in the best of international expertise.

That certainly hasn't been my experience.

Ah. Indians aren't cheaper. They're just better. Right.

[Sysman]

Ah. Indians aren't cheaper. They're just better. Right.

As in easier to sack when you don't need them any more?

[expat]

As in easier to sack when you don't need them any more?

Contractors likewise. No score for the offshores there.