Re: Outsourcing Jobs to India

Subject: Re: Outsourcing Jobs to India
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:17:19 -0400


From: "Mark Baker" <mbaker -at- ca -dot- stilo -dot- com>
> Kat Nagel wrote (regarding TW jobs most likely to be exported):
>
> > Anything involving low-level operating procedures can be outsourced
> > easily. Even the most esoteric technology can have its basic tasks
> > reduced to cook-book steps for entry-level workers.
>
> Seems like a reasonable speculation, and, if it is correct, it points out
> the consequences of our singular failure to automate the routine parts of
> Tech Writing. Those cook book steps should be generated by automated
> processes from models maintained in SGML or other formats. We should have
> been doing this routinely for at least the last ten years. But tech writers
> have remained stuck in the cottage industry stage of development while
> everything around has has been automated. No wonder the work is going to
> cheaper cottages.

The blame, as usual, lies not with technical writers, but with management,
contrary to what your comment seems to me to be implying.

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