> Would be interesting to look at the real world impact of the rise of outsourcing coding to the cheapest lowest skilled overseas body shop en mass, around the 2000s.
Tech exec here. It is all about gamed metrics. If the board-observed metric is mean salary per tech employee, you'll get masses of people hired in india. In our case, we hire thousands in India. Only about 20% are productive, but % productive isnt the metric, so no one cares. You throw bodies at the problem and hope someone solves it. Its great for generations of overseas workers, many of whom may not have had a job otherwise. You probably have dozens of Soham Parekhs .
Western execs also like this because it inflates headcount, which is usually what exec comp is based on "i run a team of 150.." Their lieutenants also like it because they can say "i run a team of 30", as do their sub-lieutenants "i run a team of 6"
I'm a fractional RevOps consultant for a company for about 20 hours a week. They spend more for those 20 hours than they would if they filled the position full time, but they'd rather it this way because it shows up on a different line item and goes with their narrative of slashing headcount. Expect we'll see a lot more of this, particularly as everyone races to become the next "single-person unicorn startup."
Tech exec here. It is all about gamed metrics. If the board-observed metric is mean salary per tech employee, you'll get masses of people hired in india. In our case, we hire thousands in India. Only about 20% are productive, but % productive isnt the metric, so no one cares. You throw bodies at the problem and hope someone solves it. Its great for generations of overseas workers, many of whom may not have had a job otherwise. You probably have dozens of Soham Parekhs .
Western execs also like this because it inflates headcount, which is usually what exec comp is based on "i run a team of 150.." Their lieutenants also like it because they can say "i run a team of 30", as do their sub-lieutenants "i run a team of 6"