[LINK] QANTAS moving IT staff to India. Any ACS response??

[Adam Todd]

At 09:21 AM 11/02/2007, Craig Sanders wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:00:00PM +1100, grove at zeta.org.au wrote:
> > Why do the corporates choose cost over quality, when in the long
> > run, outsourcing actually costs more?
>
>for the same reason that corporations will sack hundreds of workers
>for a temporary "improvement" in the bottom line.
>
>it looks good for the current annual return, and share-holders (who are
>mostly in it for the short-term and don't give a damn about the long
>term) like it.


OMG!  I actually agree with Craig!

But it's so true!  Honchoes are only in it for the "moment" and their jobs 
depends on cost reduction and profit increasing.

Shareholders will only keep their shares if they return an growth, 
otherwise they sell, and selling means lowering of share price, and if lots 
of investors sell, then share prices drop even more because the supply 
exceeds the demand.

About now would be a good time for shareholders to start selling their 
shares.  With the "Take Over" bid in play, there will be lots of little 
buyers out there collecting for the Take Over Bidder, one share at a time.

By outsourcing your XYZ department, you reduce the overheads because 
instead of being an annual fixed cost, it becomes a monthly invoice and 
hence the next month's and onwards figures are reduced accordingly and look 
really good.

Till the invoices come in.  But that's not important.  As X months 
backwards divided by 12 is always cheaper than $72,000 divided by 12 x the 
number of staff you just sacked!