Staff Offshore Drives Higher IT Savings
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With the economic downturn hitting the IT budgets, the ability to shift more staff offshore is expected to drive greater savings than the 5-10 per cent rate reduction that clients have been negotiating, according to a Forrester report.
“There has been a mad dash to redo the rate card with contractors and offshore providers, primarily. Eighty per cent of 931 respondents to our most recent services survey list it as a critical priority. On average, we see clients getting actual reductions in the range of 4-7 per cent based on current rates, type of work, and volume of spend,” it said.
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