Re: Off-shoring of tech writing

[Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>]

Maybe the movement to offshore will help revive that version of the 
well-rounded documentation team here at home. Keeping my fingers crossed.

I've been waiting a long time to hear about the benefit, over time, of 
offshoring documentation work. Has anyone seen numbers or a report 
(internal, leaked is fine with me) on whether it results in savings, or 
just creates new frontiers where documentation dollars must flow?

Thanks,

Ned Bedinger
doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com





Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
> I wouldn't have minded having that editor-to-writer
> ratio with an all US-based writing team, either.
> 
> Gene Kim-Eng
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Barbara Donohue" <bdonohue -at- alum -dot- mit -dot- edu>
>> A freelance editor friend said that off-shoring is the best thing 
>> that ever happened to her business. She said there needs to be 
>> something like one editor here for every eight or ten writers "over 
>> there" (wherever "there" is).

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