“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!
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Previously on "Off shoring gets the nod from the government. Again."
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Originally posted by Sysman View Post
A quick glance a jobswerve shows there's a lack of IT jobs not a skills shortage.
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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.
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Originally posted by mrdonuts View Postinfosys 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,
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infosys seem to have been caught out in the states
Infosys accused of smuggling Indian workers into US - Whistleblower outs company | TechEye
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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.
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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
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Originally posted by Sysman View Post
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Originally posted by Sysman View Post
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.
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Off shoring gets the nod from the government. Again.
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”.Tags: None
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