The largest telecommunications company in Australia, Telstra, has outsourced 1500 jobs to India. It previously outsourced its directories division in 2006, while complaining about the lack of programmers available in Australia saying that only 1200 new software engineers have become available in the workforce in the last 12 months compared to 44,000 in India. This move is the latest in a series to offshore IT work to India.
How long until all of the IT in Telstra is moved to India?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @07:42AM (4 children)
Either Telstra is really full of it (plausible), or they don't know how to hire. We're still picking up decent developers at $work. Then again, this place is a helluva lot nicer place to work than Telstra =)
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @08:07AM (2 children)
Telstra is LYING in an effort to make their behavior look less objectionable.
This reminds me of a lowlife idiot I knew who committed adultery while his WIFE was 8 months pregnant. His "reasoning" was that since his wife didn't want to have sex he was forced to get sex from another woman. This is a true story. It does have a happy ending though.
The wife in question was obscenely wealthy and she divorced her cheating husband who now drives a shitty old Volvo and lives in a shitty apartment, this while he is 67 years old and without any plan which will enable him to live comfortably when he is no longer able to work. I love it when assholes get what they deserve.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @08:31AM (1 child)
Some day you'll get yours.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @07:27PM
I don't know why I threatened myself, guess I really do deserve to be punished.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 01 2019, @04:22PM
Population Australia: 25,238,000 => 1200 software engineers. Or 47 SEs per million per year
Population India: 1,324,171,354 => 44000 software engineers. Or 33 SEs per million per year
So yeah, obviously India gets more Software Engineers, may I also suggest to their board of directors that India also has more CEO's, CFO's, HRMs, ... Might be worth it looking into that!
Also, it seems this is part of a restructuring, they'll be firing some 10000 people. Are you sure there are no SE's among them? Or maybe at least a good portion that might do the role with sufficient training and guidance.