Apr 07 20
Saying ta-ta to software development
Posted by Steven Deare @ 17:31 6 comments
Aussie smartcard vendor ERG has decided to outsource to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and you can't help but think of the Qantas example.
We covered the ERG decision exclusively on ZDNet Australia this week. The company will use TCS's software development services in India to either complement or replace (ERG won't tell us) its existing developers in Perth. If you're a software developer, or are looking to employ some in WA, or even Australia for that matter, this can't be good news for you.
You have to wonder whether ERG is taking a leaf out of Qantas's book from last year. TCS was involved there too.
TCS scored the largest outsourcing contract by an Indian vendor in Australia when the airline decided to hand it a AU$120 million contract for application support. Along with a contract to Satyam, more than 200 Qantas IT jobs were offshored.
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Yet another example of how outsourcing cheap labour in developing nations will ultimately destroy the standards of living in the West. Why pay someone here $85 an hour to do the same job someone in Bombay will do for 5c an hour?
As IT manager for a small publishing company, I occasionally employ software developers, graphic artists and other personnel on a temp contract basis as we need them, but we always employ local people. We never outsource offshore. I know of other small companies that do the same.
So for those looking for IT jobs, give the big corporates the go-by and go for the smaller local companies. One, you're much less likely to be relegated to the role of cubicle monkey, and two, you're helping Australian business provide Australian service to Australian people.
And three, you're helping prevent the slide of our living standards to those of a third-world country, propelled by the insane greed of corporate executives who don't give a rat's arse about our country or the people who live in it.