On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan <[email protected]> wrote: > The worst part is that most US clients take Indians working 12 hours a day > or more for granted. And our ineptitude for saying no increases when > speaking to the white folk. We shoot ourselves in the foot as soon as a > project starts by committing to unrealistic timelines which even a sensibile > non-techie can see is impossible.
Having worked in a few places around the world, I found that the productivity per hour of an employee in India is about (#include <made-up-math.h>) half that of an employee in the US. I have never been able to figure out exactly why this is the case as I have not noticed gender, race, nationality, type of job, religion or age have any influence on this. I suspect it has something to do with the state of economic and civic infrastructure in India, but I have only anecdotal evidence for this. Thaths -- "You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel." -- Homer J. Simpson
