I guess they are just oblivious to the thought that the "Intellectual Property" may be compromised ! Try to prosecute someone in another country for stealing your IP, good luck ! We have a partner who just convinced a local LARGE bank to not go offshore for it's IT division, because of the "RISK" factor with "IP" Maybe others should get on the same boat ? If the costs of doing business here are so high, then why not try to offer these positions here first and see if they get any takers ! I know lots of laid off IT people who would love taking a job with IBM even at a 50% pay cut just to keep the jobs here in the USA ! Big Corps really need to "Re-think" what the long term effects are to the core business, security, and the economy just to say a few. Im getting to the point where if a company is going to "Outsource" its business to an offshore country, Im just not going to do business with them, period.
Ken Dreger www.laprivateeye.com
At 10:50 AM 7/25/2003 -0400, Kenneth Illingsworth wrote:
Everyone is doing it. Locally, The Sutherland Group has 2000 employees in India providing telephone technical support. Those jobs used to be here, but it's hard not to move them there when they can save 40% off the top. From what I hear there are thousands of programmers in India's highly trained workforce writing programs that used to be written here. Again, the savings are there for the taking. Accountants here are out of work for the same reason. After experiencing several downsizings and a company going bankrupt right under my feet, I snagged a technical career in local government and am still going ok. But, I wonder when they are going to jump on the bandwagon.
I may end up going to Chef's school.
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/25/03 10:12AM >>> Did anybody pickup the article that IBM was shipping another 600 jobs to outside the US ?
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