By Andy McCue
Published: Tuesday 02 August 2005
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Name
Roger Huffadine
Location
Worcester
Occupation
CTO
Comment
I was sure today wasn't April 1st - but now I'm unsure.
Someone in the ONS really believes this bullshit? - really?
Anyone who has had to deal with Call Centre staff in India will have a horror story. They don't have the slightest idea of UK geography, spellings, common mis-spellings. Staff turnover in the IT sector is huge and the custodians of our most important data believe that they will get a clean database?
How about a bit of government "joined-up-thinking"? there are plenty of folk in the UK who could do this work - and I suspect that if the ONS could have the money not spent on income support and other subsidies that are saved by paying UK residents decent wages for data entry the project would show an overall saving.
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