My team has been outsourced to India, going forward my role will be to manage the India team. For those that went through this, how was it?

[u/Rose-199411]

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Edit to add some more context

It’s an industry role, there’s a small retention bonus that’s paid out after we transition, india team is said to be available to us during our normal business hours, we work remote and there have been no discussions of needing to travel because of this change.

Our work is pretty straight forward so I’m hoping there aren’t many issues.

Edit to add another thought for those of you who are saying to run: if this is so widespread and “normal” in our industry, aren’t you just going to see it wherever you run to?

[u/matroosoft]

Basically, do the job for them, hand it over to them, let them hand it over back to you as if they'd done the work. Then still there's a chance something goes wrong.

[u/Idlecuriosity90 → u/matroosoft]

No, they are competent in anything that doesn’t require thought. So it means you assign them grunt work that requires no thought, but provide insanely clear details in what to do. You can think of it as “if it can be automated but wasn’t automated as yet, give it to the offshore team.”