It has come up in conversations twice in the last couple weeks and I don't know much about it.
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wondering how this is working out now that PR has 100% no power.
Good point 3ngo. I've been with CSC 16 years and have to laugh at the irony in the situation. Thanks for putting a smile on my face amidst the never ending stream of bad news.
Not meaning to start a pissin match but it is not "Your Job". The job belongs to the first warm body that is at a cost point where the job can get done and the cost to perform that job is below some beancounter threshold.
India is a popular location with many warm bodies. Puerto Rico seems to be another location that has its advantages, as well as drawbacks. I am under no illusion that this is nothing more than a corporate entity coming in (with the local governments help) with the promise of jobs for the peoples and taxes for the government. The fact that this comes at a cost of jobs stateside is news to many as we were told that this was an expansion of the company.
Some here actually believed that. But spending a few years stateside, I did not. I am sorry for the job losses. I actually want to come back to the states to raise my kids, but I feel like a salmon swimming upstream between all the outsourcing.
Good luck to us all, down here is not the paradise that it seems to be.
Your Jobs today are because of outsourcing , who knew the outsourcer would be outsourced. It's ironic
HPE already has significant staff in Puerto Rico, maybe this is part of the consolidation plans for the NewCo.
It is already happening. Subk's are not getting contracts renewed and being replaced with PR resources. Both engineers and project managers.
CSC has expanded to Puerto Rico to take advantage of both the lower wages it can pay and the US citizenship of its peoples.
Yes, the economy is "devastated" thanks to bad politicians who dont know how to spend the taxpayers money.
And yes, CSC will get away with "really crappy wages" as their is not a whole lot of job options and companies like CSC, HPE, Honeywell, and even InfoSys know this, so they are able to get great tax incentives to open shop here.
It is about money, pure and simple, regardless of company. As a kicker, when a large local company in San Juan, Puerto Rico is looking to lower wages they tend to look at the Dominican Republic right next door (to the west). Ironic huh?
I heard it mentioned in a staff meeting that a few people from a related POD were going down there to standup a Data Center in Puerto Rico about 6 weeks ago. It is an "ITAR" site, so they can get rid of those of us that support US Military related and US Defense accounts. It is a US territory, but the economy has been devastated, and CSC will be able to get away with really crappy wages. Everyone else not on the Exec Gravy train will be working in third world countries until the Company ultimately dies.
I know they support the Pratt & Whitney account in Hartford, Connecticut. Since Puerto Rico is a US sovereign territory they can circumvent the rules about using US citizens for defense projects.