Re: Outsourcing of Technical Writers Employment

[Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Is there evidence of companies laying off all their writing staff and
outsourcing the tech writing? I haven't seen it.

I also argue that #4 is extremely important for a company to be
focused on and that we all have direct influence over whether or not
#1-3 happen.

On 5/31/05, tom -dot- green -at- iwon -dot- com <tom -dot- green -at- iwon -dot- com> wrote:
> 
> 1. Your company has a lot of "grunt" work that they "call" Technical Writing such as, conversion from Word to XML or a lot of editing old documents.
> 2. Your company does not care about quality, just quantity.
> 3. Your company can takes no value in the Engineer/Writer working relationship
> 4. Your company sees only the bottom line
> You will be outsourced.
> I have seen it happen and it will continue to happen. The larger the company, the better chance of outsourcing.

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