Indian Outsourcing on front page of The Times

[DimPrawn]

I outsource work to India. I couldn't be happier with the results.
My brief is to get the best possible value out of my budget and this I do.
Problem is I would prefer someone local, but the salary demanded cannot be justified in terms of value added.

HTH

Having a wig made is not the same thing really is it?

[Lockhouse]

I outsource work to India. I couldn't be happier with the results.
My brief is to get the best possible value out of my budget and this I do.
Problem is I would prefer someone local, but the salary demanded cannot be justified in terms of value added.

HTH

People know the price of everything but the value of nothing.

[sasguru]

People know the price of everything but the value of nothing.

Generalisations are useless.

HTH

[Amiga500]

Having a wig made is not the same thing really is it?

[HairyArsedBloke]

I outsource work to India. I couldn't be happier with the results.
My brief is to get the best possible value out of my budget and this I do.
Problem is I would prefer someone local, but the salary demanded cannot be justified in terms of value added.

HTH

Yes, it is outrageous.

I blame the councils. If they had a massive building program so that flats and houses were more plentiful then the price to rent them would fall below £30pw and we could afford to compete with offshore suppliers through lower wages.

[sasguru]

Yes, it is outrageous.

I blame the councils. If they had a massive building program so that flats and houses were more plentiful then the price to rent them would fall below £30pw and we could afford to compete with offshore suppliers through lower wages.

Well them's the facts. Unless the IT/Analytics is strategic to the business (and I would argue it always is - not that people agree at the top), then it's not seen as important.
Problem is very few of you techies are good enough to make a difference to the bottom line. Generally I find poor communication skills and general Up-your-arseness is rife.

[lilelvis2000]

I outsource work to India. I couldn't be happier with the results.
My brief is to get the best possible value out of my budget and this I do.
Problem is I would prefer someone local, but the salary demanded cannot be justified in terms of value added.

HTH

My current contract is being taken over by Indians (Steria has an office in Chennai). They seem quite competant so far. I don't think I've spoken to a developer so far though.

[xoggoth]

Maybe this is a good thing if a few incomprehensible accents discourage applicants. Why must they waste taxpayers' money like this?

[expat]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6731114.ece

Funny how it's only front page news when the civil service "workers" are affected.

Still, good news government hypocrisy and lies are being exposed.

In fact now I've actually read what they're about
http://www.britishcouncil.org/new/
why don't they just disband the whole pointless organisation rather than pay foreign workers with taxpayers' money?

The council, which promotes British culture and language abroad

[sasguru]

Don;t know how efficient it is, but it seems to me the British Council is an essential organisation. All our competitors have something similar. The Germans have the Goethe Institutes abroad and the French have something similar (Alliance Francais?).
It's lucky that most CUKKERS are not decision makers or we would be an insular and poor country without any worlwide trade