Off shoring gets the nod from the government. Again.

[Sysman]

Grayling suggests a lack of skilled IT workforce in Britain

Grayling said that firms were being forced to go abroad for IT work as the skill base on key technologies “resides overseas, and not necessarily in the UK”.

Background: UK IT workers betrayed by George Osborne

[yetanotherbob]

Grayling suggests a lack of skilled IT workforce in Britain
Background: UK IT workers betrayed by George Osborne

Nonsense. the bigger problem is a bloated bureaucracy that invents ridiculously ambiguous legislation like IR35 that insists all the resident skilled people are bl**dy 'employees' and an unnecessarily complex tax system that kills free enterprise and entrepreneurship.
Yeah, that should attract the 'best and the brightest'. the only thing it might attract is cheapness ICT's in the short term until they turn out to be a bigger ongoing cost in the long run.

[d000hg]

Grayling suggests a lack of skilled IT workforce in Britain

Maybe the government look at CUK and get the impression the whole UK IT sector is a bunch of arrogant, opinionated buffoons.

[mrdonuts]

no its a self fulfilling prophecy, give the work to overseas people and the local talent will lose their skills and that is exactly whats happen


did i miss the box on the ballot paper that said f uck you and all the other citizens of this country, because someone somewhere seems to have ticked it

[TimberWolf]

I happened to switch on Sky News today and saw Cameron banging on about the numbers of tax dodgers that had been discovered using limited companies to avoid paying tax, which I assumed was his ongoing war against contractors and pushing ICTs.

[mrdonuts]

infosys seem to have been caught out in the states

Infosys accused of smuggling Indian workers into US - Whistleblower outs company | TechEye

[bless 'em all]

infosys seem to have been caught out in the states

Infosys accused of smuggling Indian workers into US - Whistleblower outs company | TechEye

IT services companies here in the UK, which have been accused of abusing Intra Company Transfer visas to ship in low paid talent from India,

The reception area of an office I worked in used to be full of 'talent' fresh off the overnight flight every Monday morning. They'd get divvied up from there like evacuees from the blitz.

[SupremeSpod]

To be honest, if you lot didn't have such overinflated egos and charged a more reasonable rate for your services we wouldn't need to look further afield in our quest for value for money.

Just saying, like.

[BolshieBastard]

Grayling suggests a lack of skilled IT workforce in Britain



Background: UK IT workers betrayed by George Osborne

Another load of bellwhiff!

A quick glance a jobswerve shows there's a lack of IT jobs not a skills shortage.

[BoredBloke]

“Off-shoring of work by our IT service providers is not a matter for the Department for Work and Pensions.”

It wil be when people start claiming for benefits once their job has up sticks!