I heard that the BTC is being shielded from carrying overhead charges and burden that EMHC has to carry which artificially makes the BTC rate look better than it actually is. Can someone elaborate and explain?
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Simple answer. If you want your operating units to engage with BTC instead of Houston, just lower the $$$ per hour rate charged by engineers in India and raise the $$$ per hour rate in Houston.
@ba, you’re right. I used to think was just GP tiger bucks, but my view has changed now that I’m considering the impact on my own bottom line. I don’t have full visibility into the mechanics, but other countries aren’t carrying near the same GP corp overhead the US does. The US pays the $400/hr you mentioned, but others pay a much smaller markup or none at all. Wish someone can explain how this is justifiable for a GLOBALLY managed project function and how GP explains in the regional $ comparisons.
@gc oh they are relocated? I thought they send them back
One of the worst things Inam seeing is the number of BTC expats in the USA. We have never had so many from any country in the past ever. It is unprecedented. They aren’t any cheaper than an American by the time you bring them to the US to work.
@a3 you have to tell them to kindly do the needful
BTC produces the most meaningful work so they deserve special treatment
That is correct.
The implications are quite large. GP has fired more than 1/2 of their US resources since 2018 to now. In parallel, 1/3 of GP sits in Bangalore today. So, GP is now spreading all of that top Exec cost burden + Home Office on 1/2 of the employee headcount; and that denominator gets smaller and smaller every year as the BTC grows. Which, just makes it more needful to do on paper as the USA resources look pricier and pricier.
EMTEC will soon have that same math problem soon. Then, Global Ops will follow.
No matter how little we are paying them it’s too much. I have never had a helpful Indian MSP. DBAM is a complete joke and MULTIPLE times have asked me to tell them how to do their job when I’ve asked for basic changes to a database.