Re: Telecommute Contracting

Howard,

Thanks for the feedback. I can see where someone who has previously
worked with a company could be more easily afforded the opportunity to
do part/spare-time work for them once their original contract expires;
familiarity with the environment, known quality of work, known
dependability. That is almost a no-brainer.

I am looking for an opportunity to jump in and help out on a part-time
basis. I had one such opportunity in Atlanta. The company was under
such a heavy workload, they outsourced the non-critical items (screen
changes, file maintenance utilities, etc) to independent contractors at
a significant savings; at the time between 1/2 and 2/3 of what the
standard contracting rate was (depending on experience). I suspect this
practice is fairly uncommon nowadays, but I can still see the practical
nature of it. Instead of burdening you internal application development
team with cumbersome tasks like these, let them focus on the core needs
while outsourcing at a significant savings over putting another body
on-site. It allowed this company to keep their user community happy
(since the screen changes were the items most visible to them) while
also staying on or ahead of schedule on the changes to core application
logic and technology.

I knew it was a long shot when I threw it out to the group, but I
wanted to see if anyone here knows of any company still employing this
methodology.

Thanks,
Chris

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