I feel that people will misunderstood me here, but I wanted to ask this question.
Why did no company employ basically 70%-90% trainees, people with disabilities and desperate people and outsource the work that cannot be finished cheaply?
Is there is a company like that, but I just don’t know it?
When companies try to use the cheapest possible labor, it usually results in a decrease in productivity and quality, which causes them to lose business to competitors in a healthy, competitive market.
If a company can find cheaper labor that performs just as well, they’ll do so and outperform the competition. If they can find a way to distort a market so competitive pressure has less impact, then they’ll do that absent a sufficient threat of punishment.
You see this cycle a lot in IT with off shoring.
“We can hire 10 Indians for the price of one of you,” is something I’ve had a CIO tell me. He didn’t appreciate my coworker saying, “No you can’t. If you could, you already would.”
I had someone tell me in almost the same breath that I had written the cleanest code he had ever seen, and that he could hire someone with a PhD from India for a fraction of my rate. I told him to do it if he thought that would get him better results. He didn’t.