Boeing reduces size of tech workforce

Perhaps they should ditch some overpaid management first, before they outsource the whole company to death. Successful engineering companies don't get to stay that way by discarding their technical staff.

You can avoid a ton of travel costs, confusion, and a bad reputation, by having
a highly skilled tech support group. I don't think the big tech companies are ramping down
their there tech support group. Are they actually doing anything is another subject.

What they are really doing is getting rid of information technology workers who are little more than keyboard jockeys. I see these IT departments that have grown to huge bureaucracy's by management thinking that hiring more people will make the computers run better.

It never works out. It is just like increasing the number of monkeys in a room full of word processors will not increase your chances that useful work will result.

Boeing has discovered this to be true.

A lot of Boeing's high cost is their over seas Tech Reps in little needed places like Urmachi China as an example.Tech Reps were a needed representative of the different aircraft companies years ago but now they are little more then a reporting unit from outside of the main base.Honeywell reduced their cost 90% by making their tech reps a local hire type contract.No longer are they paying $150,000 to $250,000 a year for the expense of keeping an employing and sometimes his family that they were paying just $60,000 in his pocket.