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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 7676610" data-attributes="member: 2525"><p>Effectively this is how I view what WOTC is doing. In addition to the permanent writing staff positions at WOTC, there are basically 2-4 floating positions at WOTC in the writing department. Instead of filling these 2-4 writing positions with one specific set of 2-4 people on a long term employment basis, they are partnering with some companies run by WOTC alumni they like to take on shorter term projects for them in collaboration with the permanent staff at WOTC. A lot of these alumni are guys who would not come to work for WOTC again on a permanent basis now that they have their own companies, but they are willing to take on a one-time project here and there (along with their smaller staff), and enjoy working with their old friends at WOTC in a collaboration. Once the project is done, WOTC moves to another alumnus-run company they like. </p><p></p><p>If these guys still worked at WOTC like they used to, nobody would think anything of it. If Person X was still working at WOTC and creating a new product along side Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford and the rest of the WOTC staff together, nobody would be claiming it was anything other than a collaborative team effort. But because Person X is now with their own company, it's being described as outsourcing even if the exact same collaborative effort is taking place between the individuals as would have taken place if they all still worked at WOTC. </p><p></p><p>To my mind, a collaborative partnership with alumni of your company on a single project basis is not the same as the connotations people normally intend to evoke with the term outsourcing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 7676610, member: 2525"] Effectively this is how I view what WOTC is doing. In addition to the permanent writing staff positions at WOTC, there are basically 2-4 floating positions at WOTC in the writing department. Instead of filling these 2-4 writing positions with one specific set of 2-4 people on a long term employment basis, they are partnering with some companies run by WOTC alumni they like to take on shorter term projects for them in collaboration with the permanent staff at WOTC. A lot of these alumni are guys who would not come to work for WOTC again on a permanent basis now that they have their own companies, but they are willing to take on a one-time project here and there (along with their smaller staff), and enjoy working with their old friends at WOTC in a collaboration. Once the project is done, WOTC moves to another alumnus-run company they like. If these guys still worked at WOTC like they used to, nobody would think anything of it. If Person X was still working at WOTC and creating a new product along side Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford and the rest of the WOTC staff together, nobody would be claiming it was anything other than a collaborative team effort. But because Person X is now with their own company, it's being described as outsourcing even if the exact same collaborative effort is taking place between the individuals as would have taken place if they all still worked at WOTC. To my mind, a collaborative partnership with alumni of your company on a single project basis is not the same as the connotations people normally intend to evoke with the term outsourcing. [/QUOTE]
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