Exports to rest of world up 13.2%. So Gideons a disaster then is he?

ChiefGrasscutter

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

I think we need a lot more of the professional and managerial jobs here in the UK if we are to maintain our standard of living and quality of life.
Government subsidises to attract "screwdriver" jobs, just cannot work in a global economy

The output from 'professional jobs' is often designs, drawings, concepts, reports.....etc.
These can be emailed anywhere...so they can be based anywhere.

It is actually more work/aggro to offshore a manufacturing facility than to offshore a design facilty.

If you have a job where you work from home and don't need to be on/visting a site in the UK as part of the job then it will be a lot cheaper to have 'home' in Calcutta than in the UK.
So I reckon you have only just seen the start of professional jobs moving offshore, particularly as the skills levels of these places increase (mostly thanks to them attending our universities!).

John_Pierpoint

ChiefGrasscutter wrote: »

The output from 'professional jobs' is often designs, drawings, concepts, reports.....etc.
These can be emailed anywhere...so they can be based anywhere.

It is actually more work/aggro to offshore a manufacturing facility than to offshore a design facilty.

If you have a job where you work from home and don't need to be on/visting a site in the UK as part of the job then it will be a lot cheaper to have 'home' in Calcutta than in the UK.
So I reckon you have only just seen the start of professional jobs moving offshore, particularly as the skills levels of these places increase (mostly thanks to them attending our universities!).

So we are all doomed to a levelling down to a middle class lifestyle black hole of Kolkata style?

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/kolkata-traffic-police-goes-hitech/144119-3.html

Funny you should mention that, as I spent the last period of my full time working life, training a clever young woman from Bengal on how to do my job. "Fortunately" for the rest of you, Hindu India is still fairly riven with some 50 year outdated social & managerial attitudes, not least of which is judging someone by the coloured dot on their forehead or hair line.

John.

In the mean time we still have a breathing space because the "BRIC" countries still crave some of our iconic brands and are prepared to pay for them (or forge them).

BobQ

Conrad wrote: »

Yes, I'd like to see the promised bonfire of regulation. According to my MP's website, loads of regulations have been torched, but none of it thus far is sufficient to make me want to employ more folk. In the end I want as stress free life as possible and not years of sleepless nights over an impending staff tribunal. THIS is the point the left never get, I have ooman rights too, and my kids need an unstressed Dad. Regulation causes me as an investor way too much downside risk of added stress.

I am considering taking on a broker actually, but I've made it clear they must be self employed and responsible for all thier own regulation. To get around all the rules I think they will just have to pay me a rent or somesuch.

See this is the problem with over regulation, it compells people to bend rules.

So you want to return to the days when the workforce touch their forlock to the owners and have to accept arbitrary decisions as to whether their families eat or not, and where you can operate an unsafe factory maiming the expendable poor as necessary for your profit margins? Bending the rules is the excuse most tax evaders use to justify their actions.

quantic

With any luck they will fix the trade balance just in time for Labour to get voted back so they can fvck it up all over again.

John_Pierpoint

No chance.

Unless you can share with us the location of a whole new oil and gas field comparable to the North Sea.

Perhaps after the Olympics there might be a market for ex pat party organisers?