Outsourcing Your Own Job

June 27, 2007

From Wired:

A pseudonymous poster wrote, “About a year ago I hired a developer in India to do my job. I pay him $12,000 to do the job I get paid $67,000 for. He’s happy to have the work. I’m happy that I only have to work 90 minutes a day, talking code. My employer thinks I’m telecommuting. Now I’m considering getting a second job and doing the same thing.”

What a wonderful idea.  Until the boss finds out.

But this does raise an interesting point I hope to write about in the next dispatch:  Reimagining the Company.

-TS

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