lets welcome more indian nationals into the country to work in tech business

[CoolCat]

'Back door' will let in 20,000 migrants | UK | Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express

if anything this article downplays reality as it forgets to mention the vast numbers already been gievn british passports simply for working here a few years, when i have worked abroad i never dreamed of picking up a local passport simply for working there...

[wikramasingha]

If we could perhaps look at this from the other perspective we may see that this is all about a question of supply and demand.

We agree there is skills shortage. Ok, so Indian nationals supply business with readily available flexible workforce. These people, such as myself and my husband are not all ICT. Certainly that was our introduction but now we are both nationalised and contracting in our own rights paying local taxes. In other words not stealing the work of uk nstionsals and sending the money back home which is the criticism that is often levelled at us.,

[mudskipper]

If we could perhaps look at this from the other perspective we may see that this is all about a question of supply and demand.

We agree there is skills shortage. Ok, so Indian nationals supply business with readily available flexible workforce. These people, such as myself and my husband are not all ICT. Certainly that was our introduction but now we are both nationalised and contracting in our own rights paying local taxes. In other words not stealing the work of uk nstionsals and sending the money back home which is the criticism that is often levelled at us.,

Do we?

[cojak]

Actually, no we don't agree that there's a skills shortage.

What there is is a shortage of experienced locals prepare to work for less than £150 per day.

[The Spartan]

Ok, so Indian nationals supply business with readily available flexible workforce.

Roughly translated to: we will undercut others on price

Which in my view means very poor quality

[MarillionFan]

Actually, no we don't agree that there's a skills shortage.

What there is is a shortage of experienced locals prepare to work for less than £150 per day.

Which is the exact definition of a skills shortage. It's supply and demand. If the cost of a plumber was £600 a day in the UK and you couldn't get one for love nor money you'd either (a) Train more plumbers to drive the price down and supply up, or (b) bring in some Polish ones.

There is a skills shortage.

[mudskipper]

Which is the exact definition of a skills shortage. It's supply and demand. If the cost of a plumber was £600 a day in the UK and you couldn't get one for love nor money you'd either (a) Train more plumbers to drive the price down and supply up, or (b) bring in some Polish ones.

There is a skills shortage.

When companies are making their local workforce redundant, then bringing in a consultancy to fulfil the same role, that's not because of skills shortage.

[mos]

We agree there is skills shortage. Ok, so Indian nationals supply business with readily available flexible workforce.

Many who had experience working with ITCs agree on one thing: they come here without any skills and expect to be trained from scratch by the locals. In the end the locals loose their job.

We would be much better off training our own graduates instead of ITCs. Nobody without vested interest would agree that there is IT skills shortage in UK at the moment. However if we continue to train Indian graduates while our own are stacking shelves at Tesco, in a few years time local IT skills will extinct.

[MarillionFan]

When companies are making their local workforce redundant, then bringing in a consultancy to fulfil the same role, that's not because of skills shortage.

The truth is, India has invested heavily in IT training / University courses / MBAs etc. There are more Graduates in India (48 million ) than the entire poorly educated workforce of the UK. So effectively you're getting better educated, qualified and cheaper resource. I'd want the best candidates and they're likely to be Indian.

[aussielong]

When companies are making their local workforce redundant, then bringing in a consultancy to fulfil the same role, that's not because of skills shortage.

That is spreading like wildfire in Sydney. You literally cannot get a seat in the staff canteen now for consultancy Bobs eating homemade curry. Walk around the floor and they are everywhere. They must have taken 20% of the floor in a year. Good effort lads. Thankfully I'm near the end of my career because rates are dropping.