Off-shoring of tech writing

[Ned Bedinger]

Maybe the movement to offshore will help revive that version of the 
well-rounded documentation team here at home. Keeping my fingers crossed.

I've been waiting a long time to hear about the benefit, over time, of 
offshoring documentation work. Has anyone seen numbers or a report 
(internal, leaked is fine with me) on whether it results in savings, or 
just creates new frontiers where documentation dollars must flow?

Thanks,

Ned Bedinger
doc at edwordsmith.com





Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
> I wouldn't have minded having that editor-to-writer
> ratio with an all US-based writing team, either.
> 
> Gene Kim-Eng
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Barbara Donohue" <bdonohue at alum.mit.edu>
>> A freelance editor friend said that off-shoring is the best thing 
>> that ever happened to her business. She said there needs to be 
>> something like one editor here for every eight or ten writers "over 
>> there" (wherever "there" is).