Technical Writer Jobs Moving to India
If you need to be in a bad mood for some reason (it could happen) all you need to do is Google the keyword phrase “technical writing outsourcing India.” The flood of pages that are returned offering technical i services from college educated writers, all willing to work at a fraction of what we make in U.S. will make you want to go take a nap.
It seems that technical writing may be the next big profession to be outsourced. India has a surplus of well-trained writers, fluent in English, who are eager for work. And unlike call center operators, the Indian accent is much harder to detect in written software documentation and online help.
Indian is about to have to world’s largest English speaking population, so don’t expect things to get anything but worse.
If you find your company’s technical writing jobs are being moved off shore, be the first to volunteer to be the editor for them! Even the best companies doing techical writing jobs off shore recommend that you have a native English speaker review and make final edits. This could be a good way to save your job.
