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Corporations won't stop outsourcing because of reason, but they will stop outsourcing because of feelings. I like to hammer down on issues with contractors by

Corporations won't stop outsourcing because of reason, but they will stop outsourcing because of feelings. I like to hammer down on issues with contractors by basically minimizing the issue: "who cares if our customers couldn't access our product for 3 hours due to an outage? we're saving so much money by outsourcing!". It's a simple way to get people on your side because noone would like to agree that 3 hours of outage is a good thing.

kwanbix 6y ago
But in my experience I have never seen cases where you really save money. The outsourced dev charges less, yes, but the outsourcing company needs to make money. But let's say what was 10 an hour, now it is 5. In my experience is that what used to take 1 hour, now it takes 2 or even 3. In the end, hardly any savings.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y ago
  > I have never seen cases where you really save money Of course you can't save money. The guy proposing the outsourcing is either getting kickbacks or will get a massive bonus from 'cost reduction'. I like to kick the wind out of their sails by loving their proposal and reminding them that payroll changes don't count towards bonuses and they'll have to be up early to manage their new team. Suddenly, it's a bad idea.