Has anyone heard that I.T. was ordered to give more work to expensive IBM resources, while laying off less expensive other resources? Did this come from the CIO?
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Shit, are you they are not hiring IBM lawyers? Lol.
IBM $200 to $250 an hour is less?
IT is one of the most screwed up organizations. They don't know how to save money. One of the PM's I worked with, was managing 3 projects. She put her hand up and said I am out of here. She was one of the few competent people in IT I was working with. Now we have 3 inexperienced PM's managing her projects.
@1wfz+EUk8rsP is partially right, it has to do how things are accounted for to some extent. Also, a 100k IT worker here costs us 170K when all is calculated in (loaded costs, vacations, bonuses, etc.) - if they plug in a services IT person, it's likely it'll be less than that. Add to that some #H1B visa flavor, you'll likely get an Indian, onshore here in the States, on #IBM payroll for 50% of the cost that you'd be paying a Chevron employee. Also, you can let them go at any point, so there is no need to worry how to get rid of staff when needed, it makes you more nimble and you can scale up and down, get skills, get rid of skills as it's needed. It's he-l to manage though and it majorly fu--s up domestic workers as good paying jobs are disappearing because of the game I described above. Everyone is playing, you pick any Fortune 500 company and you'll find a fairly similar play taking place in any given IT group... It's sad...
They are more expensive, but they cost less. The money they pay you with comes from over here, and the money they pay the consultants is from over there. It really quite complicated, you would understand if you were in Accounting [shreds papers].