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Actually, it could. Companies that offshore their documentation
have to assign internal resources from their development and/or
test staffs to feed info to the offshore tech writers, and by the time
they add up the costs of those internal resources to the under $25/hr
rate of that writer their costs probably approach or exceed the
$50/hr figure. *If* you're sufficiently adept in the industrial and
technical background of a product being developed to do what the
client's internal resources are doing and transmit rough drafts to
an offshore writer to complete, freeing up your time to do the
technical work (and freeing up the client's internal technical
resources to spend more time developing product . I suspect that
this is how most writers who are still billing $50/hr are able to
continue attracting business at that rate.
Gene Kim-Eng
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From: "Robert J. Dianetti" <radcom -at- alltel -dot- net>
> This is all in good fun. The fact of the matter is that we all know it
> won't work. And THAT is why offshoring technical writing is a bad idea.
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