Why EUROPE , entire 'continent' able to prosper and continue to
pay its IT staff who are european passport holders the highest IT
salary in the world? now USA currency is like so cheap cannot
compare with euro.
I think the answer is
because Europe Boleh!
Its not about cost. Its whether you are able to provide them the
salary and no need resort to lowering costs.
Business is about SALEs. No sales, no matter how cheap
your IT budget is, also you go fly kite and bankrupt. Its about
your business capability. Some INC says able to pay its staff world
record salaries because salary is not the issue. Its the Gross
Domestic that is the issue.
If you can , you can.
If you cannot, you cannot.
Europe CAN!
Businesses which are weak and cannot afford even IT staff should
not use the excuse or reason that if they don't use cheaper
resources, their business will collapse. The real reason
is these businesses are either weak fundamentally, not smart, not
competent, not able to capture enough market share,
generate sales, poor in marketing or too stingy to invest in
supplychain software of the best quaility or simply,
someone or several people are corruptioning from the
inside out.
1st world cost of living.
1st world everything except freedom and salary will
not work. This equation is fundamentally flawed.
A kindergarten gardener can comprehend this.
1) Singapore is in the continent of Asia. So is PRC. Within the
European continent, the europeans work in the different european
countries. So why the double standards now when Asians work in
different Asian countries?
2) Do you know Germany (in Europe) is short of engineers, and
they are looking overseas for them?
3) Business is not only about sales. It is sales vs expenses.
You can have $10 billion of sales, but if your total expenditure is
$11billion, you still go bankrupt.
4) As you have said, you have to walk the talk. Start your own
IT business and pay them the highest salary possible. Show us you
are as competent as Mr Low Thia Khiang in hiring only locals.