Ok years ago I was told that they could replace one of me (US employee) with 3 or 4 contractors. My pay was too high and exxon always complained about this. Now lets take and American engineer making 200k a year you could possibly employ several Indian engineers say 4 or 5 for the price of one American. Now I am not saying the work would be as good or reliable but exxon would get data. US employees are expensive from the pension, 401k match and healthcare this all adds to our total enumeration and cost.
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What if that American is a Texan Bumpkin?
That's at most a 1:1 exchange wouldn't you say?
One little Two, little Three, little Indians, Four little Five, little Six, little Indians ...
But if you get 8 Indians (for 1 US Engineer) what did you really get?
Let's try some Indian execs making decisions. That'd be a hoot.
D-mb question. Unsurprisingly, work product from the ones we hire is low quality. As someone said - BTC simply a bridging step until the privileged class can fire all of us and somehow pay a computer or robot to do everything. Realistically, exec jobs should be most at risk, as they are the highest cost, lowest return to the company, but they are very special and very important, so that won’t happen.
@a3 is Correct. That’s for BTC employees. MSP employees are even cheaper. One of the MSP contractors employs about 1700 people working for XOM. That’s just one contractor. We use others as well. The India operation is huge.
The question is how much AI compute can you get for a couple thousand Indians.
AI will replace BTC first.
We care about cyberseucrity.......until money comes into the picture.
Bill rates are posted.
1 US engineer = 8 Indians
This is why everyone in Houston under 40 are mo--ns. All of the work is coming to India. You’ll all be slowly fired / sold / assessed out. It is actually part of the annual workforce study.