[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[CarrotAndStick]

But in his company blog, Riya chief executive Munjal Shah, said: "Bangalore wages have just been growing like crazy. To give you an example, there is an employee of ours who took the first five years of his career to get from 1 percent to 10 percent of his equivalent U.S. counterpart.

"He then jumped from 10 percent to 20 percent of his U.S. counterpart in the next 1 year. During his time with us (less than two years) he jumped to 55 percent of the U.S. wage. In the next few months we would have had to move him to 75 percent just to 'keep him at market.'"

[ContraryMary]

This is inevitable. We’ll be seeing more of this as wages contrinue to rise astronomically in India.

[randog]

The company I work for has an Indian engineering shop in Bangalore and Chennai. Four hundred + “engineers” and they produce nothing. Nothing. Aerospace firms design warplanes with fewer engineers, and these guys can’t write a line of code that will even compile. They’re kept around because an executive VP is Indian and has stacked the deck. The board is starting to question his questionable numbers.

[L98Fiero]

Seems like a number of freepers, including myself, called this years ago. Business will do what’s good for business.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Once again, the market system works.

We don't need no steenking protectionist laws.

[Clintonfatigued]

To all those who make excuses for outsourcing corporations (American workers make too much money, expect too much for their work), this undercuts the case they make.

[ran20]

Software is one of America’s strongholds with our massive number of programmers. And large numbers of extremely intelligent and creative individuals in the field.

[taxcontrol]

Get ready for a new buzz word - reshoring

It is the process of moving operations that are off shore, back to the US. It is happening in small but growing numbers.

[moehoward]

Is this really a surprise to anyone?

[snowsislander]

To give you an example, there is an employee of ours who took the first five years of his career to get from 1 percent to 10 percent of his equivalent U.S. counterpart.

1%? That's amazing. I had seen some huge disparities in compensation for onshore and offshore for software activities, but I hadn't seen 100-to-1.

[kalee]

ping

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. Interesting. Quality work from quality people costs money. Witness China.

[rbg81]

My experience with foreign call centers is that they are polite and patient, but out of their league. I must explain things many times before it is really understood. They are just not on our wavelength. The typically poor sound quality of the connection doesn’t help either.

[abigailsmybaby]

Where are they goin’ now? Zimbabwe?

[Caipirabob]

"He then jumped from 10 percent to 20 percent of his U.S. counterpart in the next 1 year. During his time with us (less than two years) he jumped to 55 percent of the U.S. wage. In the next few months we would have had to move him to 75 percent just to 'keep him at market.'"

So now they're bound for China, yes?

[tickles]

But loss of that return had prompted the U.S. consolidation. Riya would see a fall in headcount in a bid to keep overall payroll costs the same before and after the move, Shah said. “Because wages are still higher in the U.S. we couldn’t bring everyone.”>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Does he mean that the Indian workers are being brought into the US rather then hiring from here?