Re: Outsourcing and the falling dollar?

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

I think what you mean is "offshoring."  Companies that
hire contractors, whether domestic or foreign, instead
of direct employees are already outsourcing.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nancy Allison" <maker -at- verizon -dot- net>
>A long-term contract finally ended when the company outsourced most of 
>its tech writing to a company in Canada. Canadian labor was more 
>expensive than Indian labor, but still cheap enough to be attractive. 
>The fact that the company was in the same time zone was also helpful.
>
> Now, two years later, I've just come across an ad for a job in my old 
> group, at the same hourly contract rate that people were getting 
> before the outsourcing started.
>
> I am very curious whether anyone else has seen any indication that the 
> falling dollar is making the hassles of outsourcing less attractive. 
> (I should add that my former client is not rebuilding the entire 
> in-house doc group. I don't know what the story is about that one 
> contract. I may be over-interpreting.)

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