On May 25, 4:32 pm, Mxsmanic wrote:
Paul Tomblin writes:
The problem with "telecommuting positions" is that if they want
telecommuters, they want Indian, Chinese, or Eastern European
telecommuters, or people willing to work for those types of wages.

That's not a problem for the employer; that is presumably the whole idea. If
the employer has experience with workers in these countries, either it has set
up development centers in those countries or it has telecommuting. Either
way, it should be possible to find workers at much less than $75K, at least
for now.

Sadly I do have experience with employees in France. There is no way I
would hire a programmer there. We do hire field guys there when the
need is extream and our UK guys can't hold up the need. The problem is
that if you hire someone in France when sales are going up, you can't
let them go when sales go down. It takes us about 12 months to lay
someone off in France (usually you have to send them away with a
massive pot of cash to agree to leave early). We even had an executive
in France that was right out pocking sales money. We couldn't fire him
for more than 6 months. We actually had to send letters to our
customers and tell them that, although he was still an employee, he
was not authorized to enter any agreements.

-Robert