Good News For The British IT Industry

If you can’t go offshore then bring offshore here and continue to pay them low wages. We need this like we need a kick in the head.
 
OH joy more immigrants. just when they are raging on about benefits and how people should be made to work and now 20,000 jobs are going to be taken up by cheap indian workers.
 
lol bring the indian call centres to the uk - quite possibly the most stupid thing I've heard - give them a year and they will ask for the minimum wage etc etc etc. then the companies will be back to square 1.
 
Pretty sure they'd have to pay minimum wage no matter where the workers are from...

Extra tax and NIC would be nice... but as said, why not just pay Brits to do this job?
 
OK.

So, here's me with a degree in Computer Science, I leave university and I can't get a graduate job for love nor money, I know of graduates who spent five years applying before getting a crummy bottom rung position, and yet the industry is desperate to the point of importing foreigners?

Something doesn't add up.
 
OK.

So, here's me with a degree in Computer Science, I leave university and I can't get a graduate job for love nor money, I know of graduates who spent five years applying before getting a crummy bottom rung position, and yet the industry is desperate to the point of importing foreigners?

Something doesn't add up.

i did software enginnering...and still no work just keeping getting temp jobs
 
Pretty sure they'd have to pay minimum wage no matter where the workers are from...

Extra tax and NIC would be nice... but as said, why not just pay Brits to do this job?

yeah but computer science graduates will expect more than minimum wage to take up positions as software developers when they can better than minimum wage at tesco.

the immigrants wont. Thats the issue.
 
Having worked in the industry for a long time and recently having gone through an SAP implemntation (going cheapo by using Indian IT consultants) I can safely say that Indian's are just not very good and definately not diverse in their knowledge.. Yes that is a sweeping generalisation but without doubt my findings.. EDI is another popular one the Indians go for.. Once again they may know their EDI the ones that are apparent specialists.. But thats where the buck stops. Most American's and British workers are able to expand and work in other area's as well as their speciality. I've yet to meet an Indian (foreign worker) Obviously that doesn't apply to a British raised Indian.. But it has lead me to wonder WTF are they doing out there in building skillsets?
 
Having worked in the industry for a long time and recently having gone through an SAP implemntation (going cheapo by using Indian IT consultants) I can safely say that Indian's are just not very good and definately not diverse in their knowledge.. Yes that is a sweeping generalisation but without doubt my findings.. EDI is another popular one the Indians go for.. Once again they may know their EDI the ones that are apparent specialists.. But thats where the buck stops. Most American's and British workers are able to expand and work in other area's as well as their speciality. I've yet to meet an Indian (foreign worker) Obviously that doesn't apply to a British raised Indian.. But it has lead me to wonder WTF are they doing out there in building skillsets?

You just explained every problem in your post, yet can't see it.

Basic workers that are happy in a minimum wage job AND DON'T CONSTANTLY WANT TO MOVE ON UP, is what companies are desparate for.

Highly qualified people for crap jobs = lose lose for employers, you get such a high turn over on the staff you end up paying job agencies and temp workers millions and millions more a year than simple basic not overly ambitious staff would cost you.

Graduate workers aren't suited to basic work, and several people in this thread seem to think extra knowledge helps in a basic job like in a call centre. They don't want you thinking outside the box, they want you to read from a script and never move to a better job, thats it.

Thats unfortunately the problem Labour is fostering, no ones too stupid to be a doctor, nurse, electrician, whatever you want, everyone can go to uni, no one should be happy stuck in a minimum wage job for life, everyone can be a millionaire, blah blah blah.

In reality a good portion of the population will be minimum wage from 16 till the day they retire, thats life, thats how life works.

Why do people get upset when they go with a masters is computer science for a basic job and get told they are overqualified, its because it costs them time and money to train you, takes time and money to interview and hire people, and someone that qualified will move on the first chance they get.
 
yeah but computer science graduates will expect more than minimum wage to take up positions as software developers when they can better than minimum wage at tesco.

the immigrants wont. Thats the issue.

Sorry, I was responding to codec above - should have quoted.
 
Having worked in IT for a number of years, my experience is that onshoring Indian developers is a terrible idea. In general they hold up the rest of the team due to being fundamentally unable to work to the same level, the work is poor (often completing something will be enough for them, rather than getting it to work right).

The reason Employers do this is because the workers can be paid in India, so they aren't subject to UK minimum wage (nor Employers NI etc).
 
Disgraceful news. Every indian I have worked with from India has been more useless than a chocolate teapot, and due to their culture of "Asking questions means I am weak and stupid", they plough ahead and muck things up even more. The last thing I want is these useless twonks anywhere near one of my systems.

Why not get *Good* immigrants in who can actually do a job, like the Czechs?
 
I'm with you, Its just if we are going to be forced to bring in people by the overlords of Brussels then I'd rather them be useful.

+1 for leaving the EU also.
 
This is great news for the UK IT industry, it means they can get cheap workers in from India yet charge the same rate as before to their customers. More profit = more bonuses for the bosses.

Of course, it's not good news for UK IT industry workers who will be replaced by these Indians, and the unemployment rate for Computer Science graduates is already higher than every other degree at 16%. The government doesn't care about that though, people didn't vote Conservative to help the little people.
 
This is great news for the UK IT industry, it means they can get cheap workers in from India yet charge the same rate as before to their customers. More profit = more bonuses for the bosses.

Of course, it's not good news for UK IT industry workers who will be replaced by these Indians, and the unemployment rate for Computer Science graduates is already higher than every other degree at 16%. The government doesn't care about that though, people didn't vote Conservative to help the little people.

This is from the EU not our Government?
 
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