you've usually broken up the local labour conditions when you have set up a offshore or follow the sun model in the first place- because you've changed processes, set up new KPIs or SLAs.... moving an indian IT specialist to the UK for a bit doesn't make much difference....
It might be a cost (investment) in your milieu, but that doesn't necessarily apply to all businesses - some of which have business models that rely on the importing of cheap labour eg oil and construction.
No I'm not, Pingu's company is paying a third party to do some work. It has outsourced some labour.
Maybe you should stop guessing.
Post 30, 'seconded from our Indian company'
= they couldn't stand him either
We are talking here about a guy seconded from an Indian company, not a plan to hire large numbers of foreign workers and ship them round the world. Which is unusual even in construction and oil, they usually let the foreign workers come to them and hire them as locals- the cost differential has to be huge for organisations to take on workers in one location and ship them to another- common in china, but the employment market is radically different over there. Not sure what my 'milieu' is- I advise companies on operate in a multinational environment and have reviewed expat schemes as part of that a fair few times. Operating in a multinational environment means I have been on an expat contract, but you look at the whole company. That may mean considering the location of a service centre, or factory or whatever, or where you can get workers from (eg Kazakhstan doesn't have the workers with the skills they need to operate in the conditions they need to operate in, so they need foreign workers- you look at the solution for the whole oil production site, consider expatting some, some you give high return contracts, etc etc
It isn't
Fair enough - maybe drawing from my own experiences too much. Even though it is part of the same group the situation as you described it earlier just sounded like regular outsourcing to me
I've explained why I thought it was outsourcing. Should I just leave you to it?
He's not an employer, he's a manager. And there is nothing he's said that identifies, even vaguely, who it is and where etc. he's been v careful.
yeh too careful. if there'd been a bit of indiscretion i would have enjoyed the thread more.
Aye, you've explained to me before how niche it is. You've also been quite specific as to the skills ... There's no chance this guy is identifiable is there?
you already are
Yeah, I know you're careful. Just thought I'd double check.
i've long assumed it was because you liked takeaways.
