It isn't all that long ago that I was working from home .
I had a little business and managed to keep myself busy and get paid to do so.
The Business was chugging along nicely with minimal outlay .
Then it plummeted into the abyss.
My clients were it seems ,all interconnected.
The main client (Client A) ,it turned out, also employed 2 of my other clients (client B And C) who in turn, employed me.
So when Client A decided that they could get a partial service from workers in India who would do the basics for 20p an item, they dispensed with my own more extensive services at £1.50 an item and also with those of Clients B and C,who as a repercussion, could no longer employ me .
At first sight this would seem logical and money saving on the part of Client A but if you look into it a bit more carefully, you will see that the money that previously was paid to the workers in the UK, instead of being used to buy things within the UK and therefore remaining in the UK economy, is now paid to workers in India who buy things in India and have no intention of spending it elsewhere(India having a lower cost of living ,who can blame them?).
Client A are not the only company contracting out to the far off lands, several other companies also do so and some companies (even our local bus service) recruit from far away, despite the fact that there are people in the UK queuing up for jobs back home.
The workers that are recruited, send money back for their family to live on and so there again, the money leaves the country,never to return.
While the Government is cutting costs all over the country, there is still a schism that is leaking the economy and they seem blind to it.
I don't blame the workers in these remote countries, they are being given opportunities and who would not jump on the gravy train if they saw it beckoning?
I do think that there needs to be a brake on the practice though or this country is going to become a population of massively overcrowded ,overweight, depressed ,embittered people with no prospects ,relying on unhealthy vices to keep them from either rebelling against the system or warring amongst themselves.
We need laws that give priority to those in this country where work is offered by companies here.
Prospects?
Recently there has been some news regarding the work opportunities given to those on Job seekers allowance in the UK.
Some companies signed up to a scheme in which the JSA claimants would work for them, receive the same JSA that they are paid anyway and expenses and nothing more.
People quickly pointed out that if they did no work, they got JSA and if they worked for these companies, they got nothing else.
The companies were offering 'work' but not advertising it for people to apply for and be paid a wage for.
When the scheme has run it's course, because the companies have not openly stated that there were vacancies,they can dispense with the 'workers' because they don't have a position for them to fill.
Our own graduates are unable to find work having studied for 3 or 4 years and clocked up a student debt.
The Government want young people to continue on in Education past the compulsory 16 years of age but with no additional prospect of being employed when they obtain their degree.
Young people are pushed from one training scheme to another with no target in mind.
They are told that training will lead to employment.
They are asked at 14 to choose their subjects to study so that they can use them to get a job but no one at 14 has any great idea of how their life will progress and so often the choice is blind or made on the balance of teachers liked, lessons friends will be in, amount of effort needed,likely hood of getting rich quick.
(Performing arts are a popular choice in school).
I had a little business and managed to keep myself busy and get paid to do so.
The Business was chugging along nicely with minimal outlay .
Then it plummeted into the abyss.
My clients were it seems ,all interconnected.
The main client (Client A) ,it turned out, also employed 2 of my other clients (client B And C) who in turn, employed me.
So when Client A decided that they could get a partial service from workers in India who would do the basics for 20p an item, they dispensed with my own more extensive services at £1.50 an item and also with those of Clients B and C,who as a repercussion, could no longer employ me .
At first sight this would seem logical and money saving on the part of Client A but if you look into it a bit more carefully, you will see that the money that previously was paid to the workers in the UK, instead of being used to buy things within the UK and therefore remaining in the UK economy, is now paid to workers in India who buy things in India and have no intention of spending it elsewhere(India having a lower cost of living ,who can blame them?).
Client A are not the only company contracting out to the far off lands, several other companies also do so and some companies (even our local bus service) recruit from far away, despite the fact that there are people in the UK queuing up for jobs back home.
The workers that are recruited, send money back for their family to live on and so there again, the money leaves the country,never to return.
While the Government is cutting costs all over the country, there is still a schism that is leaking the economy and they seem blind to it.
I don't blame the workers in these remote countries, they are being given opportunities and who would not jump on the gravy train if they saw it beckoning?
I do think that there needs to be a brake on the practice though or this country is going to become a population of massively overcrowded ,overweight, depressed ,embittered people with no prospects ,relying on unhealthy vices to keep them from either rebelling against the system or warring amongst themselves.
We need laws that give priority to those in this country where work is offered by companies here.
Prospects?
Recently there has been some news regarding the work opportunities given to those on Job seekers allowance in the UK.
Some companies signed up to a scheme in which the JSA claimants would work for them, receive the same JSA that they are paid anyway and expenses and nothing more.
People quickly pointed out that if they did no work, they got JSA and if they worked for these companies, they got nothing else.
The companies were offering 'work' but not advertising it for people to apply for and be paid a wage for.
When the scheme has run it's course, because the companies have not openly stated that there were vacancies,they can dispense with the 'workers' because they don't have a position for them to fill.
Our own graduates are unable to find work having studied for 3 or 4 years and clocked up a student debt.
The Government want young people to continue on in Education past the compulsory 16 years of age but with no additional prospect of being employed when they obtain their degree.
Young people are pushed from one training scheme to another with no target in mind.
They are told that training will lead to employment.
They are asked at 14 to choose their subjects to study so that they can use them to get a job but no one at 14 has any great idea of how their life will progress and so often the choice is blind or made on the balance of teachers liked, lessons friends will be in, amount of effort needed,likely hood of getting rich quick.
(Performing arts are a popular choice in school).
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