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    We are saved. New trend in I.T.

    GM 'insources,' set to hire 10,000 IT pros
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    #2
    I think it's a kuatb but I can't be bothered to look for the old thread and it's good news anyway so
    And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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      #3
      Been expecting this for the last few years. Many colleagues have been starting to get more work quietly dragging failed work home, and I have been working for outsourcers for the best part of a decade and have to say that some of the things I have seen have been truly horrific. I expect the next decade to employ me to move most of the stuff I have removed off shore

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        #4
        Looks like my permie role is being "insourced" to the US.
        Will work inside IR35. Or for food.

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          #5
          'Nearshoring' has been around as a term for a while, e.g. outsourcing your dev work from London to The North where salaries and rent are much lower.
          Originally posted by MaryPoppins
          I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
          Originally posted by vetran
          Urine is quite nourishing

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            #6
            Originally posted by d000hg View Post
            'Nearshoring' has been around as a term for a while, e.g. outsourcing your dev work from London to The North where salaries and rent are much lower.
            The atlas consortium tried that with one of the major defence contracts. I keep getting peeps call me and offer me the chance to work in Scotland for nay cash. I think the message has started to get to HP that there are no IT bods in livingston which is a bit of a shame

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              #7
              Originally posted by bobspud View Post
              The atlas consortium tried that with one of the major defence contracts. I keep getting peeps call me and offer me the chance to work in Scotland for nay cash. I think the message has started to get to HP that there are no IT bods in livingston which is a bit of a shame
              This is the crux of it.

              I'm from the NW, and would gladly move back there like a shot. Problem is, too little work and too low a rate of pay to make it worthwhile. I've asked clients for years why they don't move North and out of London, but they claim they'd just never be able to find the staff. Not sure how true that is, but it's a mindset you just can't shake them from.
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                #8
                Well the company I know who did it got work from the big London banks, BUT he used to work in that world and then set up his company probably with all the connections.

                If you put a team together and then go looking for clients rather than wait fro them to look for you, then maybe?
                Originally posted by MaryPoppins
                I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
                Originally posted by vetran
                Urine is quite nourishing

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by d000hg View Post
                  Well the company I know who did it got work from the big London banks, BUT he used to work in that world and then set up his company probably with all the connections.

                  If you put a team together and then go looking for clients rather than wait fro them to look for you, then maybe?
                  Which one City Secret or Scot Logic?
                  merely at clientco for the entertainment

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
                    Well the company I know who did it got work from the big London banks, BUT he used to work in that world and then set up his company probably with all the connections.

                    If you put a team together and then go looking for clients rather than wait fro them to look for you, then maybe?
                    A few years ago, maybe. But not now.

                    My work is all in IBs, and they are paranoid about letting anything escape the building in the large-scale front-office Architecture/Design side of things I work on. And Development work is sent to India, Singapore, etc. these days, with very low rates, so hardly worth pitching against.

                    I'm simply resigned to clinging on for a couple more years and then calling it quits. The I.T. contracting industry lost its charms for me many years ago. Sadly, I'm only in it for the money these days - and there seems to be less and less of that around!
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