Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Re: [asterisk-biz] OT: Paying people in faraway (Western) places.

Andres wrote:
> Alex Balashov wrote:
>
>> That was the first thought I had when reading Brett's and Nitzan's
>> responses. I thought about that.
>>
>> The problem with all these worthless staffing and recruiting parasites
>> is that their markup on him is not merely "an overhead." They want a
>> 100%+ margin.
>>
> Hard to believe that is the case in the UK. We hire people in Latin
> America and the overhead is more like 10%. Well worth it. They pay
> social security, taxes, medical insurance, worker comp, pension, etc.
> etc. You should research this more closely and actually get some
> quotes from staffing firms.

Hmm. Thanks, good advice - to others who suggested this as well. I'll
take it before I give up.

The problem is 1) I really wasn't hoping to introduce more overhead into
this than necessary and 2) I'm too angry and blinded by my rage at
worthless consulting body shops to think clearly sometimes.

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Alex Balashov
Evariste Systems
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