Re: interesting contradiction about needing H1B workers

Generally consultants charge more per hour than inhouse employees make.
So that employer *could* hire those consultants, but would have to pay
much more than he wants to pay. What he can't do is hire people at the
rate he wants to pay.

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:41:36 -0500, rick.baird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
> 
> Scott,
> 
> I don't find this a contradiction at all.
> 
> This guy wants full time hires, not consultants.  In my experience, the
> use
> of consultants is for short term gain, not long term pain.  If you can
> only
> get the short termers, why go for the pain too?
> 
> I'm not trying to defend this guy, because I don't know how hard he
> actually looked for qualified permanent hires.  But I won't condemn him
> either based solely on the comments below
> 
> Rick
> 
> ----------original message-----------
> I thought this article raises an interesting contradiction:
> 
> http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17800189
> 
> The quote:
> 
>  "Hummel says he's had some jobs open for two years looking for qualified
> people, and, if he can't hire someone to do a job, he has to pay
> consultants three or four times the salary rate."
> 
> to me says he *can* find qualified workers (the consultants), he just
> doesn't  want to pay the going rate.  So he looks for H1B workers
> instead.
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
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