Tech Writer Outsourcing
Newsforge reports that
Builder.com, a website developer resource, has tentatively outsourced some of the tech writing on their site to an editorial firm in India.
We learned of this move in the form of a "leaked" memo Builder.com senior editor Rex Baldazo sent to freelancers and fellow staffers today that said, "...with Q2 it appears my monthly article budget will be slashed dramatically. We're talking somewhere in the 40% range. Unfortunately article fees are the biggest discretionary items in our budgets so whenever they need to find a place to cut these are the biggest targets."
The last paragraph said, "And it gets worse. I hate to have nothing but bad news in this email, however they (they == TPTB) [The Powers That Be - Ed.] want me to try outsourcing some of our content. So we are currently negotiating a trial period with an outsource editorial firm in India (yes, India). They will provide a certain number of Builder articles over the next couple months. That will further reduce the number of freelance articles we purchase in Q2. The India contract is just a 2-month trial so I don't know at this time whether it will affect the number of articles we purchase in Q3. I'll try to keep everyone in the loop as we move forward on this effort."
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Posted by johndan at March 20, 2004 09:54 PM
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