Years ago, we were told that for GDPR (or for some other legal reason), we would always need staff in the UK so we can access data from the production database.
All the staff we hired in India would never be allowed access.
However, my employer once bought a house over the road from the office then allowed Indians to stay there for a few months. So they paid for the flight, Visa, all expenses accommodation to work in the UK for a bit. There was a rumour they could then access production databases but I’m not sure that is true because we have to have a DBS check to ensure we don’t have a criminal record.
Another colleague reckoned we brought them over because if you don’t promise Indians a chance to work in the UK, they will go work for an employer that does offer that. Once they have had their UK trip though, what incentive do they have to stay? Can’t they go work for someone else and get another free holiday?
An annoying aspect of it, is that it was still going on when we were going through a redundancy process, and yet they were trying to assure us the Indians weren’t taking our jobs. I did wonder what the cost was to employ them and pay for their brief UK stay. Kinda seems a hassle to organise as well.
I’m convinced I posted this before, but this was from Colin who shared his screen with an open spreadsheet of people’s wages.
| Name | Role | Rupees | Yearly Salary £ |
| Prasanth | Graduate Trainee | 500000 | 4,295.00 |
| Saranya | Software Engineer | 650000 | 5,583.50 |
| Hemalatha | Test Engineer | 600000 | 5,154.00 |
| Vinitha | Junior Software Engineer | 700000 | 6,013.00 |
| Vignesh | Software Engineer | 1000000 | 8,590.00 |
| Padmasri | Junior Software Engineer | 650000 | 5,583.50 |
| Hebsi | Software Engineer | 1400000 | 12,026.00 |
| Shoban | Software Engineer | 800000 | 6,872.00 |
It’s crazy how much money is saved by hiring Indians. They have definitely taken our jobs over the years.
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