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Contract Business Analyst |
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You Really Are a Tool! |
| Date Posted: |
02/26/2006 |
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Your mommy? Get real, Hewitt doesn't have to demonstrate anything to anybody. They can move the work or not when and if if they want. They can try to get people to do a job for $27k a year without benefits for a job they can't even fill for $36k with benefits. Yeah, that makes sense. Let's try paying less and see if that works. That would be like taking the bait off the hook because the fish aren't biting. C'mon people, if you are going to troll, at least be a little bit smarter. |
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In case all your knowledge of HR is based soley on The Source, many companies that offshore labor depend on H1-B visas to send foreign workers to the US to perform jobs here that - according to these same companies - cannot be performed by any available domestic labor. The companies have to apply to the government (Department of Labor, I think - I'm not 100% sure) to get a grant of a certain number of H1-B visas. These visas are used as a mechanism to train Indian workers in the US - training that can be taken back to their home country. These visas are also used to artificially depress domestic wages (Exult helped BOA do just that about five years ago). This is done by purposely understating the domestic "prevailing wages" for a particular role on the H1-B application itself. So, if Hewitt can demonstrate that there is no domestic labor available to perform the BA role at the "prevailing wage" of $11-$13/hour, then the firm may get a grant of a certain number of H1-B visas to bring Indian labor over to the US to perform the BA role at roughly $11-$13/hour.
As far as Hewitt posting a role for a temp position that pays at least $10K less than a salaried person for the same role, they can get away with that easily. The firm is targeting a different labor pool. If they wanted someone at a salary level, the minimum requirements would be a bachelors degree or equivalent experience as well as other specific qualifications. If they wanted a temp, the only qualification would be simply having a pulse. Hewitt doesn't value the BA role anymore; they're just applying a "quick fix" to the turnover/talent loss problem. It may not make sense to you, but Hewitt does this crap all the time (sorry to burst your bubble).
You may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but you're definitely a tool. Management material all the way.
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