As I made reference to in my last blog, I have seen a number of high profile financial clients recruit large numbers of testing resource recently. Is this an indication that clients are beginning to think that off shoring large programmes of work is not necessarily a commercially successful thing to do?
As a recruiter, I have often been told over the last couple of years that projects have been off shored. My usual response was, "it must be down to cost" and I never thought much more of it. However, I am interested to learn more about what off shoring a project actually means, how this is done and what implications does it have on the staff that are on shore for the project?
I would like to hear from people within the market to learn what the positive and negatives around off shoring projects are. With the recent announcement from the government that we are now slowly coming out of the recession, will this signal an end to testing projects being off shored?
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I used to outsource work but have recently stopped, opting for home based workers instead. Reason being the outsourced search market has matured (in the countries we used) to the point where prices are on the increase. It got to the point where it was a minimal cost saving to outsource based on our existing supplier and for the increased communication benefits of having everyone sat in the same office, it no longer made sense.
2 years ago the cost saving was dramatic and worth the effort but times have changed and to get qualified outsource resource no longer presents the saving it once did.
Off-Shoring: A process used by IT contractors to avoid tax
in the wake of recent events I reckon this is a fairly apt definition!
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