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Re: 2nfro
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 11:03 am
by jimslip
This will cheer you up no end Mr 2nfro!
they need the money for:
By the way, if you are with BT and you get a fault, your call is put through to some dude in India who knows jack shit about anything. I know because we had to put up with this for weeks before I gave BT the boot and went to Virgin. If on the other hand you phone to buy something, your call is put through to a UK based call centre. Co Op insurance is also using UK call centres.
Nikonman
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:51 pm
by David Johnson
Hi
I would be interested to see a cost analysis of the effects of offshoring a 100 IT jobs in the public sector to India.
Looking at this from a purely cost point of view.
On the positive side.
1. The council saves money because it will be cheaper to offshore it to India. Hurrah for the Local Government Minister, Eric Pickles and the Treasury!
On the negative side.
1. All the income tax/NI formerly paid by the British based employees is also offshored and goes to India or wherever the offshoring company is based for tax.
2. THe British IT workers will require redundancy packages of varying amounts depending on how long they have worked there.
3. Those who end up unemployed will be drawing benefits from the state. If they are in their fifties they may never get a similar, permanent job again so may spend the rest of their lives on benefits or doing relatively low paid work.
4. The knock on effect of this offshoring or onshoring of IT jobs means that IT graduates find it harder and harder to get work in their specialism.
5. The implication of this is that they end up doing low paid bar/restaurant work paying less tax than they otherwise would or being unemployed on benefits.
6. If the students are earning less than 21,000 once the university fee settlement kicks in, the government will never get its 3 years at ?9/yr back ever.
Doesn't seem to make that much financial sense to me.
Cheers
D