29 Jan 04 @ 12:15 pm
Want Severance? Train Your Replacement
From Reuters:
U.S. companies are asking technology workers to help export a new product: their jobs.As programing and other computer services move to low-cost locations in India and China, some workers are in the awkward position of training their replacements.
Software developer Mike Emmons was shocked two years ago when Siemens AG, the German telecom equipment giant, decided to replace him and his colleagues with lower-paid programmers from India.
According to Emmons, Siemens told about 20 workers in Lake Mary, Florida, that outsourcing was the wave of the future. The company gave them severance — provided they trained employees imported by Tata Consultancy Services of India to do their jobs.
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