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Re: Offshore writers and editors

Subject: Re: Offshore writers and editors
From: Peter <pnewman1 -at- optonline -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 16:23:38 -0500


Gene Kim-Eng wrote:

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.


True, but the payments are charged to different budgets.


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References:
Offshore writers and editors: From: Bonnie Granat
Re: Offshore writers and editors: From: Bonnie Granat
Re: Offshore writers and editors: From: Andrea Brundt
Re: Offshore writers and editors: From: Robert J. Dianetti
Re: Offshore writers and editors: From: Gene Kim-Eng

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