🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 04 Oct 1998 20:28:58 -0700, IMA <cow@pacbell.net> wrote:
>It goes BEYOND importing workers -- U. S. companies have set up entire
>separate companies in INDIA to handle programming at a fraction of the
>cost of U.S. programmers.  Wouldn't surprise me if the IBM's of the
>world are among them.  "Programming"  is the 'growth industry' if India.

The companies themselves rarely get directly involved in these
politically-damaging tech sweat shops.  The current trend is American
entrepreneurs setting them up and contracting as independent
consultants.  Many of them are located just offshore in the Caribbean,
like Barbados, and actually compensate workers pretty well: free
apartments, free use of a vehicle, day care, decent salaries (up to
$70k).  One  of the main attractions of these shops is the savings in
human resources and benefits to the client companies.  Hell, if I
wanted to live on a tropical island, I'd consider signing up myself,
although I doubt the work is cutting edge.

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