Local law will also exacerbate the problem.  e.g. Spain used to have one category of employment, thus making most jobs, in the job-for-life category.  Sometime within the last 20 years or so, that passed a law that put a person in the temp category for 3 years, after which the employer could make the employee permanent.  The law was made to solve a hiring problem, no one wanted to hire.  As it turns out 90 percent of hirelings are let go after 2 years, 364 days.  Only 10 percent are retained for permanent jobs.

Tracy Johnson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: OpenMPE Support Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On 
> Behalf Of Jeff Vance
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 11:47 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [OPENMPE] OPENMPE Digest - 30 Mar 2010 to 31 Mar 
> 2010 (#2010-12)
> 
> My experience with outsourcing is that it looks very good to the bean
> counters, but it does not necessarily pay off, at least not in the
> first 5-6 years (which is a longer horizon than many CFOs seem to have
> these days). The start up costs are high, communication can be
> challenging, and the new team does not have the product and customer
> experiences which are so important when fixing bugs and adding
> enhancements.
> 
> The team I worked with in India for many years had good people,
> hard-working, willing to learn, but it is extremely difficult to learn
> the inner-most details of design trade-offs, architectural
> intricacies, etc from 8,700 miles away. To add to the challenges, the
> team in India tended to be young, recent university graduates, and the
> culture there promotes moving around to different companies during the
> first 3-4 years of one's career. For us this meant that often after we
> trained an engineer in Bangalore, he/she would leave for another job,
> and the training had to start all over.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 9:00 PM, OPENMPE automatic digest system
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > There are 2 messages totalling 64 lines in this issue.
> >
> > Topics of the day:
> >
> >  1. Global Economics ( was Hp 3000 MPE-IX Trainner) (2)
> >
> > 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Date:    Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:51:29 -0400
> > From:    janet hiller <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: Global Economics ( was Hp 3000 MPE-IX Trainner)
> >
> > I will assume that all of you that disagreed with me are 
> gainfully employed
> > and have never had the demeaning experience of being 
> outsourced.  You cannot
> > fully understand the impact if it has not happened to you.
> >
> >
> >
> > In order to receive some sort of a severance package you 
> must first take
> > your many years of experience and hand it over on a silver 
> platter.  And,
> > the only reason that we were outsourced was to make the VP 
> look good to his
> > superiors so that he would get a better bonus next time. 
> Outsourcing had
> > very little to do with economics, except his own.  The 
> company was doing,
> > and is still doing quite well.
> >
> >
> >
> > To all you idealists..walk a mile in my shoes.
> >
> >
> >
> > Janet Hiller
> >
> >
> >
> > PS  Why can't India have it's own economy????   Oh, I 
> forgot, they do, it is
> > ours.
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Date:    Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:57:52 +0000
> > From:    David T Darnell <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: Global Economics ( was Hp 3000 MPE-IX Trainner)
> >
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