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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My company did this too. You nailed it in your first post though - the company did it [b]I guess because it saw it could pay employees half the amount it would pay US employees.[/b] But it didn’t factor in a) the additional costs of hiring employees in Europe, like the maternity leave, notice period, etc; and b) when people aren’t afraid they are going to lose their job at a moment’s notice and when the pay isn’t even that good anyway, people are a lot less motivated![/quote]

Bingo. Now US employees are "too expensive". I have to say that euro counterparts work their butts off (and work late!) when they are in the office, but it's very true that we have projects that stop for all of August. There are a few people who seem to be on holiday about 50% of the time, no exaggeration. They keep things moving and with the few Americans working all the time, things are getting done.

The Indians are a different slice of the same picture. Very very inexpensive. Lots of national holidays but not the 50% off personal holidays. However, the choices they make when they are working demonstrate why they are inexpensive. Nothing really gets done. There's lots of passivity, too much waiting on direction and other people, so the Americans step in to keep things moving.

If they get rid of the last few Americans because they are comparatively soooo expensive (and this thread has demonstrated why) then good luck with that I guess. I kind of want to sit back and laugh. You get what you pay for. [/quote]

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