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Originally posted by tothetenthpower
My company is international, I also operate in the US. I don't really care if you believe me or not.
I'm dissapointed that you would complete disregard what I have said simply because you think it's far fetched. Regardless it is what it is.
It's more sad that people don't have the confidence that you can be that succesfull...
~Keeper
Originally posted by v3_exceed
Originally posted by tothetenthpower
My company is international, I also operate in the US. I don't really care if you believe me or not.
I'm dissapointed that you would complete disregard what I have said simply because you think it's far fetched. Regardless it is what it is.
It's more sad that people don't have the confidence that you can be that succesfull...
~Keeper
Considering that over 80% of business in Canada is comprised of the 6-10 person office, and that "Big" business is less that 5% of all business in the country. Your stats are hardly indicative of the Canadian marketplace.
This is true, those stats are correct. My firms are still privately owned, I won't incorporate, sure there are advantages, but I like things the way they are now.
I don't mean to sound bitter, but I have seen many good people lose their livelihoods, their businesses and their homes, only to read how wonderful Canada has done through the recession. These aren't people who didn't plan, they trusted the Government, they trusted the system only to see it collapse from beneath them.
I agree these people who did lose everything were some of the best people Canada had, it's very unfortunate, but there are always sucess stories in even the darkest of times.
Now I cannot comment on how hiring contractors, and paying them on a per call basis might compare to actually hiring employees and covering the employer portion of EI, CPP, WCB as well as the usual overhead, because I have never run a call center or hired and paid employees in this fashion.
Actually, I'll give you an example of my primary Canadian site.
I have about 300 employees, I pay them hourly, they do multiple lines of business. The average employee handles 3 carriers, advance teams as many as 9.
I have a virtual model where I hire employees in other provinces to work from home, where I save on my costs is they are responsible for their equipment and internet access.
I've also been able to keep wages above minimum wage (starting for me is 12.50$ an hour, minimum here is 9.50$ I believe) because I've kept my clients for so long and they overpay on their service contracts.
With Dell, Telus, Microsoft and most of the BIG guys moving their call centers to India I can only imagine that even that industry is being effected.
It's been fundementally different, I 've never outsourced. I refuse to. Where I would save on costs, I would be losing in customers as I would have to sacrifice the WONDERFUL customer service that we offer because of our extensive in house traning.
I~Keeper
Originally posted by snowspirit
reply to post by The Cusp
I have heard there is also something about our gas prices will always be more expensive than theirs, even though we have all we need and also supply some of it to them.
Originally posted by The Cusp
What I don't understand is how our Canadian dollar is consistently a few cents below the US dollar in value. I mean, we have resources out the wazoo backing our dollar, but we can never seem to gain more value than the american dollar.
That's a conspiracy if I ever saw one.