In my past, I was the president of an SEO firm that had over 30 “employees” (contractors) offshore. I won’t speak for all offshore firms/contractors, but our experience with these contractors wasn’t very positive.
Imagine using something like Google Alerts to collect a massive number of posts about a particular subject matter… then leveraging a room full of offshore labor to individually classify and apply context to the data.
Meanwhile, the French parliament has separately decided to impose a 1 per cent tax on all online advertising from next year -- a move that is seen as an attempt to claw back some of the revenue from the largely offshore Google," the French Press...
I once posted on LinkedIn that I was looking for a senior search manager and received many responses from offshore partners and even recruiters for offshore companies. This is something that comes up when trying to determine if you should offshore...
All too often, when the work comes back in from the "offshore drilling site" it has to be transcribed, translated, and transmogrified. When the going gets tough, the tough apparently go offshore to for the really complex stuff.
