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Re: Coping with offshoring - a modest proposal for tech writers

Subject: Re: Coping with offshoring - a modest proposal for tech writers
From: quills -at- airmail -dot- net
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:19:27 -0600


At 4:58 PM -0400 12/16/03, Dave Whelan wrote:

You would think it would good business for a technical agency to offer
a virtual tech pubs resource using telecommuting writers from anywhere
they happen to reside, does anyone know any reason this wouldn't work?
Regards,
Dave Whelan
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia


Perhaps because they perceive no added value when the remote worker is only a few miles away? Something romantic about being across an ocean?

Are you willing to work for the same wages that they can get offshore?

Scott

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